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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3300666, member: 10461"]"Spooky Moon Face" Unusual pictorial love token engraving on 1862 USA Seated Liberty half dime <img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/SpookyMoonFaceLT-1862-5c-005965-coin.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Obverse: Seated Liberty design, unaltered. Reverse: strange, round face with "F G D" initials and ornamental garland above, decorative carving to left and right. One thing that intrigued me here is that the engraver obviously had some skill, as demonstrated in the initials and the garland, but what's the weird, seemingly crude face all about?  And those ornamental bits on the side?  We'll probably never know.  Your interpretation is as a good as any I could come up with. <img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/SpookyMoonFaceLT-1862-5c-005965-rev.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]