76 Medals. 



travagant cost. It is the only one of the kind, with which I am ac- 

 quainted ; Mon. Mionnet of the cabinet of Paris, formerly took cop- 

 ies in sulphur, (his prices were the same as Mr. Doubleday's,) but 

 when I sent last spring to him for some, I was informed that he had 

 discontinued the business some years since. I saw also for sale in 

 Mr. Doubleday's collection, a copy of the celebrated Rosetta stone, 

 now in the British Museum, done in sulphur or plaster, 1 do not re- 

 collect which : he appeared to have succeeded as well in this as in 

 the medals. 



Should any of our institutions, however, prefer the originals to cop- 

 ies, they can easily supply themselves at the house of Matthew Young, 

 Esq., 41 Tavistock street, Covent Garden, London. He has con- 

 stantly on hand, a large collection ; when I visited him, it amounted 

 to 100,000, including coins of all countries, but was particularly rich in 

 those of England. I was informed that Mr. Young is so jealous as 

 to the character of his cabinet, that if he happens to purchase a coun- 

 terfeit, he immediately melts it down or destroys it in some other way. 

 His prices are — -Roman silver from 18^. to some guineas; do. 

 large brass, 2s. Gd. the lowest; Greek coins from IO5. to 30s. and 

 so on to several pounds. He has a large collection of American 

 coins and medals, together with several, struck in Great Britain and 

 France, relative to our country. Among them are full setts of the 

 Annapolis medals, (cost high,) Lord Baltimore's, do., said to be rare; 

 they are in silver and cost one guinea each. Medals of Washington 

 from 2s. 6d. to 10s. 6^^. — also of Franklin for the same price. 



I will add a list of some American coins, &c. which I purchased 

 from him, and which you can publish or not according to the interest 

 you think they may have at home. 



1. White metal. If inch in diameter, obverse, three concentric 

 circles — in the first belt the legend. Continental currency, 1776; in 

 the second, a sun, legend, fugio ; in the centre, a sun dial, legend, 

 mind your business, reverse 13 circles joined, on each the name of 

 a state ; within this a circular band with rays, inscribed American 

 Congress ; in the centre, legend, we are one. 



2. Copper, obverse, sun with 13 stars among its rays — legend, 

 JVova Consiellatio ; — reverse, legend, Libertas et Justiiia, 1785; 

 within this, a laurel wreath encircling the letters V. S. Another 

 nearly similar, dated 1783. 



3. Obverse, an elephant; reverse, legend, God preserve Caroli- 

 na and the Lords I^roprietors, 1694. 



