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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3313512, member: 85693&quot;]Terrific write-up, Jochen.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been keeping my eye peeled for a poet&#039;s coin, but with no luck. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d like to mention that the USA National Anthem has a connection to Anacreon - per Wikipedia:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;<b>The Anacreontic Song</b>&quot;, also known by its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incipit" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incipit" rel="nofollow">incipit</a> &quot;<b>To Anacreon in Heaven</b>&quot;, was the official song of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacreontic_Society" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacreontic_Society" rel="nofollow">Anacreontic Society</a>, an 18th-century gentlemen&#039;s club of amateur musicians in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London" rel="nofollow">London</a>. Composed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stafford_Smith" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stafford_Smith" rel="nofollow">John Stafford Smith</a>, the tune was later used by several writers as a setting for their patriotic lyrics. These included two songs by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key" rel="nofollow">Francis Scott Key</a>, most famously his poem &quot;Defence of Fort McHenry&quot;. The combination of Key&#039;s poem and Smith&#039;s composition became known as &quot;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner" rel="nofollow">The Star-Spangled Banner</a>&quot;, which was adopted as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_anthem" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_anthem" rel="nofollow">national anthem</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" rel="nofollow">United States of America</a> in 1931.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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