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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3236940, member: 10461&quot;]<font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>&quot;Weird Wellington &amp; The Penguin Lady&quot;: Bizarre folk art carving on ca. 1811-1813 Canadian token</b></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Weird%20Wellington-Penguin%20Lady-000600-coin-800x400.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Weird%20Wellington-Penguin%20Lady-000600-coin-800x400.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Weird%20Wellington-Penguin%20Lady-000600-coin-800x400.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Weird%20Wellington-Penguin%20Lady-000600-rev-inverted.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Host coin:</b> Undated (ca. 1811-1813) pre-confederation Canadian halfpenny token; &quot;Field Marshall Wellington&quot; (Breton-971?) type, large leaves variety. </font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Obverse:</b> bust of Field Marshal Wellington with front outline of profile recarved. </font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Reverse:</b> seated Brittania altered into bizarre bird-headed woman with small animal inverted on her lap. </font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Ex-&quot;savoyspecial&quot;, Collectors Universe, 3/19/2015.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">This was a dirt-cheap impulse buy ($6) that was so bizarre I just couldn&#039;t pass it up. Courtesy of Greg Capps, aka &quot;savoyspecial&quot; on Collectors Universe, who made me an enthusiastic convert to the whole &quot;graffiti coin&quot; thing. </font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Boy, &quot;Penguin Lady&quot; is spooky, isn&#039;t she? How&#039;d you like to run up on <i>her</i> in a dark alley? Brr... there&#039;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? <i>Eviscerating?</i> And what the heck <i>is</i> that critter, anyway? I think I&#039;ll call it &quot;The ArmadilloFox&quot;.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">This was previously part of my <a href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.aspx?catid=26&amp;threadid=953536&amp;enterthread=y" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.aspx?catid=26&amp;threadid=953536&amp;enterthread=y" rel="nofollow">Engraved/Counterstamped/Oddball Type Set</a>. I sold it in 2016 (at a tidy profit, though still quite inexpensively).</font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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