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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2583478, member: 10461&quot;]<font face="Georgia"><b>&quot;Spiny Lighthouse Seascape&quot;: Pictorial love token on 1864 two-cent piece</b></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/SpinyLighthouseSeascape-USA2c1864-005193-coin.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>Host coin: </b>1864 USA 2-cent piece.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>Obverse:</b> original shield motif, unaltered.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>Reverse:</b> seascape with lighthouse and sailboats in square frame with edge embellishments.&nbsp; </font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">Ex- &quot;fairoakscoin&quot;, eBay, 11/13/2014.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">Though I had sold off my old love token collection, I continued browsing that category on eBay, and one day I spotted this one. A two-cent piece is a slightly less common host coin for a love token, and this had an appealing pictorial carving on the reverse, so I made an offer and bought it. So what if the lighthouse here looks a bit more like a sea urchin perched atop a pedestal, or a prickly pear cactus? I like it, and actually think this is a pretty well-engraved piece.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">This piece, though now sold, was once 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">&quot;Oddball&quot; set</a>, which was my second love token collection.&nbsp; I have since begun a <i>third</i> collection of <i>holed</i> love token and engraved pieces, to put on my &quot;Holey Coin Hat&quot;.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">This one was featured and illustrated prominently in the cover article about love tokens written by Tom DeLorey in the February 2016 issue of <i>COINage</i> magazine.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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