Coins, medals, and seals, ancient and modern. Illustrated and described. With a sketch of the history of coins and coinage, instructions for young collectors, tables of comparative rarity, price lists of English and American coins, medals and tokens, &c., &c (1861)
Prime, William Cowper, 1825-1905 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 68
t an age in the world when gold is becoming moreplenty, when its proportionate value to other metals is vastlydecreasing, and when some new standard of value will be neces-sary? Have we not already arrived at an age when the truestandard of value is labor? It is worth thinking of, to. say theleast… … PINE-TREE MONEY. ward named the Somers Islands from Sir George Somers, whowas wrecked there in the early part of the seventeenth century.There is extant in England a specimen of a coin, with a hog onone side and a rude ship or vessel on the other. The legend isSomers Islands XII. This coin has no…
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