Front: USS Des Moines, "Daisy Mae"

Reverse: Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale! — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Ship’s coin from the Posleen Wars sequence of John Ringo’s Legacy of the Aldenata, from Yellow Eyes and The Tuloriad, by John Ringo & Tom Kratman.