AMERICAN MEDALS, PAPER MONEY, AND BOOKS CONCERNING 

 THE CURRENCY AND MANUFACTURE OF AMERICAN MONEY, 

 EXHIBITED BY THE NUMISMATIC AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCI 

 ETY OF PHILADELPHIA. 



By 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 of the Independence of America. 



Forty American medals of religions, corporations, politics, and miscellaneous. 



Collection of the manufacture of paper money, containing 220 specimens (1800 to 

 1863). 



This paper money was issued by the State and private banks 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 in 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 circula 

 tion on the 30th of June, 1892. 



PUBLICATIONS OF THE NUMISMATIC AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 



1. Constitution, 1870. 



2. The Counterfeiting of the Ancient Dice. By H. K. Harzfeld, 1879. 



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



4. The Ruins of a Primitive Encampment of Rehoboth, Delaware. By Francis J. 



Jordan, 1880. 



5. The Modern Monetary Questions, Viewed in the Light of Antiquity. By Robert 



Noxon Toppan, 1881. 



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



7. Proceedings. 



8. William Penn s Sand-Glass in Pennsylvania, 1881. 



9. Ancient and Modern Calendars. By John R. Baker, 1881. 



10. Memorial of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of its Foundation, 1883, 



11. Legal Constitution, 1883. 



12. Account of the labors of the society in the year 1865. 



13. Account of the labors of the society in 1878, 1879. 



14. Account of the labors of the society in 1880. 



15. Account of the labors of the society in 1881. 



16. Account of the labors of the society in 1882. 



17. Account of the labors of the society in 1883. 



18. Account of the labors of the society in 1884. 



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