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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3300667, member: 10461"]"Weird Wellington & The Penguin Lady" Bizarre folk art carving on 1811-13 Canadian "Wellington" halfpenny <img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Weird%20Wellington-Penguin%20Lady-000600-coin-1600x800.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Host coin: Undated (ca. 1811-1813) pre-confederation Canadian "Marshal Wellington" halfpenny token (Breton-971?), large leaves variety. Obverse: bust of Field Marshal Wellington with front outline of profile recarved. Reverse: seated Britannia altered into bizarre bird-headed woman with small animal inverted on her lap. This was an impulse buy I just couldn't pass up, for the princely sum of six dollars. Boy, "Penguin Lady" is sure spooky, isn't she? How'd you like to run up on her in a dark alley? Brrr... there's some nightmare fuel. Look at that sharp beak... those muscular arms. And that poor creature in her lap, which she appears to be... spanking? Petting? Eviscerating? And what the heck is that critter, anyway? I think I'll call it "The ArmadilloFox".  <img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Weird%20Wellington-Penguin%20Lady-000600-rev-inverted.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> What in the world was going on here?  Again, we'll probably never know.[/QUOTE]