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.

GIFT OFFRONTISJ'IKTK.'COINS,ANDMEDALS, SEALS,ANCIENT AND MODERN.anb JBe0rribeir.AWITHSKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF COINS AND INSTRUCTIONS FORCOINAGE,YOUNG TABLES OF COMPARATIVECOLLECTORS, RARITY,PRICE LISTS OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN COINS,MEDALS AND Ac.TOKENS, &c.,EDITED BY1*+*^W. C. PRIME,iiAUTHOR OF" "Boat Life in and Tent Life in the Land,"Nubia," HolyEgypt&c.&c., &c.,OP THEUNIVERSITYNEW YORK:HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,FRANKLIN SQUARE.1864.ifto Act of in the one thousand hundredEntered, according Congress, year eightand bysixty,HARPER & BROTHERS,In the ofClerk's Office the District Court of the Southern District ofNew York.PREFACE.towithoutTHIS volume is published any pretencein-is intended to in abut form,cheapgive,novelty,could not otherwise ob-which new collectorsformationIn the mass of illus-tain at great expense.except veryvalue.which it contains will be found its chieftrationin hands to the ac-When this was prepareplaced myhistorical I shrank from the worksketch,companyingwell result inas one which howevercould, executed,onlittle credit to The countless worksvery myself.fills a volume of sev-the mere ofwhichcoins, cataloguesub-eral hundred the inexhaustible nature of thepageseven thatthe whichject portionobscurity overhangsandof it that relates to our own thesecountry manyinduce me to declineother considerations tooperatedthe attempt.II have undertaken it with the idea that mightonlyof col-do for the benefit and ...