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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2768663, member: 10461&quot;]<font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>&quot;Two Bits for an Odd Fellow&quot; : Fraternal lodge token on 1857 Seated Liberty quarter</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><a href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/LT-1857-25c-OddFellows-03696-coin.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/LT-1857-25c-OddFellows-03696-coin.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/LT-1857-25c-OddFellows-03696-coin.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><a href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/LT-1857-25c-OddFellows-03696-obv.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/LT-1857-25c-OddFellows-03696-obv.jpg" rel="nofollow">Larger obverse image</a></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><a href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/LT-1857-25c-OddFellows-03696-rev.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/LT-1857-25c-OddFellows-03696-rev.jpg" rel="nofollow">Larger reverse image</a></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Host coin: </b>1857 Seated Liberty quarter. </font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Obverse:</b> original Seated Liberty design, unaltered. </font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Reverse:</b> planed off and re-engraved with a fasces supported by three sets of double columns, all-seeing eye above, Odd Fellows symbol (three conjoined links) below. </font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Ex-&quot;realap13&quot; (eBay), 07/08/2016.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">This is a neat fraternal organization token. While I&#039;m mostly unfamiliar with the &quot;temple&quot; (column and fasces) elements, the triple links below are obviously the symbol of the international <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd_Fellows" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd_Fellows" rel="nofollow">Odd Fellows</a> organization and stand for <i>&quot;Amicitia Amor et Veritas&quot;</i> (or &quot;Friendship, Love, and Truth&quot;). I&#039;ve also seen that all-seeing eye in some of their other iconography. Interestingly, the artist who engraved of the reverse did not choose to orient his engraving in relation to the obverse of the host coin, but chose a seemingly more random rotation- note the hole position. </font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">I like this piece but am not a fan of the somewhat scuzzy obverse toning, so I may later attempt a localized cleaning on that side while leaving the reverse alone. Then I&#039;ll need to reimage this later. (Really, it looks a bit better in hand.) But the slightly ugly toning might have actually worked to my advantage a bit, since I won this piece at a pleasantly inexpensive price for a pictorial love token, let alone one on a pre-Civil War quarter host coin with nice details.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">This was formerly 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>, and will likely be a part of my future reboot of my &quot;Holey Coin Hat&quot; collection.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">~RWS</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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