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Tlicre are also some of the "chopped " money, current in China, where 

 the custom exists of mercantile houses placing their "chop" (or guarantee 

 firm name) upon all the silver money that passes through their hands. The 

 effect of this is very soon to render a coin utterly unrecognizable through 

 the multiplicity of "chops " that it had received. 



Scandinavia presents nothing remarkable, except the copper dalers, issued 

 in the reign of Charles XII., when his insatiate thirst for glory had almost 

 reduced his kingdom to beggary. To obtain the necessary revenues for carry- 

 ing on his mad career he issued small copper pieces which were to be a legal 

 tender for a dollar. The experiment failed, after working the usual amount 

 of hardships, and its originator, Baron Goertz, paid with his life the penalty 

 of its ill -success.* 



In America we find an uncirculated cent of 1793, a beautiful head with 

 flowing hair, an object far more tasteful than the last design with which 

 the authorities of the United States mint have favored us. The very rare 

 silver piece coined by Louis XIV... for circulation in the Franco- American 

 colonies, known as the Gloriam regni, exists here in fine condition, as also 

 the Rosa Americana half penny, coined for circulation in British North 

 America, in the reign of King George the First ; Georgius Triumpho, Im- 

 munis Columbia, Bar Cent, NovaConstellatio, Talbot Allum and Lee (of New 

 York) cent 1794, the Higley copper, coined in Connecticut in 1737, Nova 

 Csesarea, Vermont, Virginia, Nova Constellatio, Connecticut and Massachu- 

 setts coppers, Massachusetts shilling and three pence of 1052 (of which 

 former coin it is narrated that the daughter of the mint master was given 

 her weight as a dowry, she standing in one scale while the money was 

 poured into the other), the sixpence issued in 1783, by I. Chalmers, a jew- 

 eller at Annapolis, a very fine Washington cent 1791, large eagle, a num- 

 ber of fine proof-sets and coins of the United States Mint, including the 

 pattern dollar of 1836, the set of pattern cents of 1858, the pattern cents of 

 1850, 1855 and 1854, the set of pattern half dollars of 1868. 



Among the patterns is a goloid metric dollar, a composition, the invention 

 of William Wheeler Hubbell, Esq., winch was proposed as being especially 

 adapted for the coinage of the standard dollar. It contains gold, silver and 

 copper in fixed proportions, but presents the feeling and appearance of a 

 very light silver coin. Of these patterns there were not more than twenty- 

 five struck and it is of the greatest rarity. 



There is the general and customary assortment of the coins usually inci- 

 dent to the American series, a series which contains very little either of 

 beauty or of interest, so that in the present instance where our aim was 

 mainly to exhibit Art no attempt has been made towards a display of mere 

 numismatic rarities. 



*The names of this series are as follows : 



Crown 1715. .Saturn . . -, Flink och fardig . . . . ) ,-,q 



Pallas 1710. Jupiter. . Hopel * 



Publica fides 1717. Mars. . . . 17is. Gcertz's Head. 



Mercury. . 



Phoebus . . J 



