AMERICAN MEDALS, PAPER MONEY, AND WORKS ON AMERICAN COINS 

 AND PAPER CURRENCY, EXHIBITED BY THE NUMISMATIC AND 

 ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA, 



STEWART CULIN, Recording Secretary of the Society. 



Fifty medals of Gen. George Washington. 



Fifty medals of eminent Americans. 



Fourteen medals of the War of the Revolution and the Independence of America. 



Forty A.mericau medals, religious, political, and miscellaneous. 



Collection of paper money, 220 specimens (1800 to 1863). 



This paper money was issued by the State and private hanks and commercial 



houses, from 1800 to 1863, before the creation of the national banks and the 



currency of the national paper. 

 Collection of the fractional currency of the United States. Fifty specimens (1862 



to 1876). 

 By act of Congress, in 1862, the issue of paper money of less value than $1 



was authorized, of which a total amount of $368,720,079.51 was issued from 1862 



to 1876, in five series. Of this amount $6,903,462.62 remained in circulation on 



the 30th of June, 1892. 



PUBLICATIONS OF THE NUMISMATIC AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 



1. Constitution and By-Laws. 1870. 



2. The Falsification of Antique Coins. By H. K. Harzfeld, 1879. 



3. Presentation of a Silver Medal to Hon. Eli K. Price, president, 1879. 



4. The Remains of an Aboriginal Encampment at Rehoboth, Delaware. By Francis 



Jordan, jr., 1880. 



5. Some Modern Monetary Questions, Viewed by the Light of Antiquity. By Robert 



Noxon Toppan, 1881. 



6. The Books of Chilan Balan. By Daniel G. Brinton. 



7. Act and Bull. 



8. William Penn s Landing in Pennsylvania, 1881. 



9. Old and New Style Fixed Date Calendars. By John R. Baker, 1881. 



10. Proceedings in Celebration of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of its Foundation, 



1883. 



11. Constitution and By-Laws, 1883. 



12. Report of the proceedings of the society for 1865. 



13. Report of the proceedings of the society for 1878, 1879. 



14. Report of the proceedings of the society for 1880. 



15. Report of the proceedings of the society for 1881. 



16. Report of the proceedings of the society for 1882. 



17. Report of the proceedings of the society for 1883. 



18. Report of the proceedings of the society for 1884. 



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