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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2863678, member: 10461&quot;]<font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>&quot;All Aboard the Ghost Train&quot;: pictorial love token on 1853 Seated Liberty quarter</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/lt-1853-25c-006800-coin-png.7123/full?d=1506495697" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/media/lt-1853-25c-006800-obv-png.7124/full" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/media/lt-1853-25c-006800-obv-png.7124/full">Larger obverse picture</a></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/media/lt-1853-25c-006800-rev-png.7125/full" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/media/lt-1853-25c-006800-rev-png.7125/full">Larger reverse picture</a></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Host coin:</b> 1853 USA Seated Liberty quarter.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Obverse: </b>original Seated Liberty design, unaltered, with traces of old pinback mount; hole at 12:00 obverse. </font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Reverse: </b>19th century locomotive with &quot;9&quot; on cab, name (undecipherable) engraved below. </font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Ex- &quot;freshpics4u&quot;, eBay, 09/26/2017.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Here&#039;s another neat transportation-related pictorial love token.&nbsp; This was likely a gift to an engineer or someone else who worked on the railroad.&nbsp; It appears to have originally had a pinback mount, but was later holed for use as a pendant; probably a watch fob.&nbsp; The way I like to imagine it, this engineer carried the coin for many years on his watch chain, long enough to wear away the engraved script which once showed his name.&nbsp; So he is now only a nameless ghost, and thus I couldn&#039;t resist calling this &quot;Old Number 9&quot; locomotive a &quot;ghost train&quot;.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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