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                                                                     EXHIBIT 4.2

[FACE OF CERTIFICATE]

NUMBER
C

GENEVA ACQUISITION CORPORATION

INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE

COMMON STOCK

SHARES

SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

CUSIP

This Certifies that
is the owner of

FULLY PAID AND NON-ASSESSABLE SHARES OF THE PAR VALUE OF $.0001 EACH OF THE
COMMON STOCK OF GENEVA ACQUISITION CORPORATION transferable on the books of the
Corporation in person or by duly authorized attorney upon surrender of this
certificate properly endorsed.

This certificate is not valid unless countersigned by the Transfer Agent and
registered by the Registrar. Witness the seal of the Corporation and the
facsimile signatures of its duly authorized officers.

Dated:

/s/

SECRETARY

[SEAL]

/s/

CHAIRMAN

COUNTERSIGNED AND REGISTERED:
CONTINENTAL STOCK TRANSFER & TRUST COMPANY
TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR
BY
AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE

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[REVERSE OF CERTIFICATE]

Geneva Acquisition Corporation

The Corporation will furnish without charge to each stockholder who so requests
the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or
other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof of the Corporation
and the qualifications, limitations, or restrictions of such preferences and/or
rights. This certificate and the shares represented thereby are issued and shall
be held subject to all the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation and
all amendments thereto and resolutions of the Board of Directors providing for
the issue of shares of Preferred Stock (copies of which may be obtained from the
secretary of the Corporation), to all of which the holder of this certificate by
acceptance hereof assents.

The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this
certificate, shall be construed as though they were written out in full
according to applicable laws or regulations:

TEN COM - as tenants in common

TEN ENT - as tenants by the entireties

JT TEN - as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in
common

UNIF GIFT MIN ACT - ....(Cust).... Custodian ....(Minor)....
under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act ....(State)....

Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the
above list.

For value received, ___________________________ hereby sell, assign and transfer
unto

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE (PLEASE
PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, OF ASSIGNEE) shares of
the capital stock represented by the within Certificate, and do hereby
irrevocably constitute and appoint Attorney to transfer the said stock on the
books of the within named Corporation with full power of substitution in the
premises.

Dated

Notice: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as
written upon the face of the certificate in every particular, without alteration
or enlargement or any change whatever.

Signature(s) Guaranteed:

THE SIGNATURE(S) MUST BE GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE GUARANTOR INSTITUTION (BANKS,
STOCKBROKERS, SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS AND CREDIT UNIONS WITH MEMBERSHIP IN
AN APPROVED SIGNATURE GUARANTEE MEDALLION PROGRAM, PURSUANT TO S.E.C. RULE
17Ad-15).

The holder of this certificate shall be entitled to receive funds from the trust
fund only in the event of the Company's liquidation upon failure to consummate a
business combination or if the holder seeks to convert his respective shares
into cash upon a business combination which he voted against and which is
actually completed by the Company. In no other circumstances shall the holder
have any right or interest of any kind in or to the trust fund.