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A smaller coin has a head on the obverse, face to the left, with 

 OVR. D. C. D., with the rest indistinct. Fig. 396 is of this. On? 

 the reverse are four fleurs-de-lis, the upper one above a castle tower. 

 Part of the inscription is AN. 1639. DOVR. One better preserved 

 is in Theodore Stanford's collection, appearing in fig. 397. On the 

 obverse is the King's head. LOVS remains on one side, and FR. 

 ET. NA. on the other. The reverse now barely suggests the lilies. 

 The date is 1640; then comes a cross, and then the letters DOVR. 

 DE. TOV. Both these are of copper, and they are slightly wider 

 than our present cent. No coins of older date have been reported 

 from New York Indian sites. 



Honorary medals and gorgets 



Though the Indians preferred substantial presents, they were not 

 insensible to honorable distinctions. They thought powder and 

 ball a better means of defense than the king's arms, but tokens of 

 personal rank they valued. So that Robert Livingston made a 

 shrewd suggestion on returning from Onondaga in 1700, when he 

 recommended to Governor Bellomont: 



That his Ma tys amies be sent to all the 5 Nations and put up on 

 each Castle, and if your Lord p thought fit, that some of their Chief 

 Sachems had a badge or the King's armes cut in silver to hang about 

 their necks upon solemn days, I presume it would be acceptable. 

 O'Callaghan, 4:651 



Whether this was at once done does not appear, but Queen Anne- 

 did not forget the wise suggestion. At his first conference with the 

 Five Nations, in August 1710, Governor Hunter introduced a new 

 feature. The queen had been greatly impressed by the visit of the 

 New York Indians to London, and took a warm interest in her forest 

 allies, regarded by her as subjects. On this occasion Governor Hun- 

 ter said : 



Her Maj ty has sent them as a pledge of her protection, and as a 

 memoriall to them of their fidelity, a medall for each Nation with 

 her Royall effigie on one side, & the last gain'd battle on ye other, 

 which as such she desires may be kept in your respective Castles 

 for ever, she has also sent her Picture on silver twenty to each nation 



