66 XIX. Ten-dollar Pieces, Miners' Bank, San Francisco, California Twenty-five and Ten-Dollar Pieces, Templeton Reed.......... Tens and Twenty-Dollar Pieces, Baldwin & Co. ..... Twenty and Two-and-a-half-Dollar Pieces, Mormon, Utah ................. Device.-The bust of the Goddess of Liberty: the liberty-pole, surmounted by the cap, rests against the right shoulder, and the hair is blown back, as if by the wind against which the goddess appears to be running, to announce to the world the tidings of her victory. Legend.-LIBERTAS AMERICANA 4 JUIL, 1776. Reverse.-Pallas, holding in her left hand a shield with three fleur de lis-the arms of France-and opposing it to a leopard-England-which is springing toward it: her right hand is drawn back and holds a barbed javelin, as if in the act of plunging it into the leopard. Under the shield is an infant în a stooping posture, strangling a serpent with each hand, and, apparently, contemplating the same act upon another at its feet. Legend.-NON SINE DIIS ANIMOSUS INFANS.1 According to ancient mythology, Hercules, under the protection of Pallas, is said to have strangled two serpents which had assaulted him in his cradle. Infant America, like Hercules in his cradle, had destroyed two armies-Burgoyne's, which surrendered at Saratoga, Oct. 17, 1777, and Cornwallis', at Yorktown, Oct. 19, 1781. Mease's Description of American Medals. The embellishments and illustrations in this work, by Rosenthal Brothers, of Philadelphia, are, of themselves, sufficient encomium upon their taste and skill as lithographers. I cannot, however, forego the expression of my personal appreciation of, and indebtedness to them for, the zeal with which they entered into the work, and prosecuted it to completion-evidencing not only pre-eminence in their art, but a corresponding interest in whatever is useful or beautiful. M. W. D. 'The infant's strength was dependent upon the gods. HORACE. Ode IV., Book III., Verse 20 |