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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2583883, member: 10461&quot;]<font face="Georgia"><b>&quot;Weird Wellington &amp; The Penguin Lady&quot;: Bizarre carving on 1811-13 Canadian &quot;Wellington&quot; halfpenny</b></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Weird%20Wellington-Penguin%20Lady-000600-coin-800x400.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><a href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Weird%20Wellington-Penguin%20Lady-000600-coin-1600x800.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Weird%20Wellington-Penguin%20Lady-000600-coin-1600x800.png" rel="nofollow">Larger picture</a></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><a href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Weird%20Wellington-Penguin%20Lady-000600-rev-inverted.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Weird%20Wellington-Penguin%20Lady-000600-rev-inverted.jpg" rel="nofollow">Larger reverse image</a> (inverted to show the strange critter right-side up)</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>Host coin:</b> Undated (ca. 1811-1813) pre-confederation Canadian &quot;Marshal Wellington&quot; halfpenny token (Breton-971?), large leaves variety. </font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>Obverse:</b> bust of Field Marshal Wellington with front outline of profile recarved. </font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>Reverse:</b> seated Brittania altered into bizarre bird-headed woman with small animal inverted on her lap. </font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">Ex-&quot;savoyspecial&quot;, Collectors Universe, 3/19/2015.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">This was a dirt-cheap impulse buy that was so bizarre I just couldn&#039;t pass it up. Hold on to your hats, now... it cost me the truly astonishing sum of <i>six whole dollars!</i>&nbsp; Haha.&nbsp; Could YOU have passed it up for that price?</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">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></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">This piece was one of the earliest additions to my old <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>, and a vivid reminder of how much truly fascinating historical material can be found in the exonumia category for the price of a good hamburger or less.&nbsp; Small wonder I&#039;m a love token enthusiast.&nbsp; You might say I <i>love</i> love tokens!&nbsp; But what the original intention behind this deliciously strange piece of folk art was, we can only guess.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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