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with six pointed leaves (or perhaps seed-pods) radiating from a small circle or button in the centre. (H. calls this a "sea star," "estrella de mer.") Above this device is a castle, and below it a lion rampant, to left. Legend: LAFLORA ORIENTAL PER ZESPED PROCLAM:TUS 1789 Border similar to obverse, but with small pellets between the rings. The legend is broken at the top by the castle and at the bottom by the lion, which project through it nearly to the border. Edge plain. Silver. 34.

The designs and legends on the piece above described are about the same as H. No. 153, but with some variations; on the obverse the difference in treatment of both the head and the bust is quite observable; the raised portion of the field above the head is faintly indicated, and that below the bust does not appear at all; the border also is entirely different. On the reverse of H. there are two points above the castle (:), and the small letters over the date read TUR instead of TUS; the border also is very dissimilar.

I am aware that this piece has by some authorities been attributed to the State of Florida; but, as it seems to me, on insufficient grounds. My contention that it belongs to Florida in Uruguay is based on the following reasons: First, it is utterly and entirely different, both in design and execution, from any Proclamation piece known to me to have been issued in the West Indies or their neighborhood. Second, the town of Florida is a place of some importance, situated about fifty miles nearly due north from Montevideo, in a region that was for nearly two centuries known as the "Banda Oriental; "-what more natural than that it should have been styled "Florida Oriental" by way of distinction? The further fact, that what is now known as Uruguay was, at the accession of Charles IV in 1789, a Spanish colony, adds force to the conjecture. These reasons, while not perhaps conclusive, may yet be deemed sufficient to warrant the attribution I have suggested.

Guanaxuato, Mexico.

II. Obverse. Bust to right, with coat, mantle, scarf and frill; the hair long and tied with ribbon. Beneath the bust, in very small letters, GIL Legend: CARLOS + IIII + REY + DE ✦ ESPAÑA + Y + DE ✦ LAS + YNDIAS ✦ Border plain. Reverse. Interior of a mine in which five miners are seen at work. Legend: GUANAJUATO * POR * SUS LEALES MINEROS In Border and edge plain. Cop

ACLAMADO EN LA * C * DE

exergue, EN * 28 * DE * OCTUBRE | * DE* 1790* per, gilt. 48.

The obverse of this piece is precisely the same as that of H. No. 213, of San Miguel el Grande, and apparently is from the same die. The reverse is the same in design as H. No. 144, but is quite differently executed, and the legend is exactly the same in both. The exergue also varies, that of H. being punctuated as follows, viz. : . EN 28 DE OCTUBRE | 。 DE * 1790. I have never met with this combination elsewhere, and think it must be rare.

Guatemala, Cent. Amer.

12. Obverse. Bust to right, with mantle and Order of the Golden Fleece, the hair long and curling and tied with a ribbon. Beneath the bust, P. G. A. Legend: CAROL. IV. D. G. HISP. et ind. Reg. Border dentilated. Reverse. Within an ornamental shield are two conical mountains, over which a horseman with uplifted sword is charging to left; the border of the shield is charged with eight scallop shells, and ornamented at the sides by garlands of flowers. Legend: S. P. Q. G. PROCLAMAT. 18 NOV. A. 1789. Border dentilated. Edge plain. Silver. 35.

This somewhat resembles H. No. 145, but varies from that in several particulars. The head on the obverse of H. is laureated, and there are no letters under the bust; the drapery also is quite differently rendered. The reverse has but six mussel shells on the border of the shield, and there are other trifling variations.

13. Obverse. Nude bust to right, laureated. Legend: CAROL. IV. D. G. HISP. ET IND. REG. Beneath the bust, P. GA. Border dentilated. Reverse. Within a circle of pellets, two conical mountains, over which a horseman with uplifted sword is charging to left. Legend: s. P. Q. G.. PROCLAMAT. 18 NOV. 1789. Border dentilated. Edge corded Silver. 29.

Similar to H. No. 146, which has no letters beneath the bust; in other respects nearly identical.

14. Obverse.

Golden Fleece; the

the shoulder, P. G A.

Bust to right, with coat, scarf, frill and Order of the hair long, curling, and tied with ribbon; on truncation of Legend: CAROL IV Legend: CAROLIV・・ D'G'HISP· ET IN ·REG • Border dentilated. Reverse. A horseman with uplifted sword charging to left over two conical mountains. Legend: S. P. Q. NG. PRO CLAMAT. 18 NOV. 1789. Border dentilated. Edge corded Silver. 21.

This is almost identical with H. No. 148, which, however, lacks the letters on truncation of shoulder; otherwise it is much the same. I have followed H. in attributing this piece to Guatemala; it may, however, belong to New Granada.

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City of Mexico, Mexico.

Obverse. Crowned arms of Spain between two crowned pillars, with the ribbons and motto as usual. Legend: A CARLOS IV REY DE ESPAÑA · Y DE LAS YNDIAS Border dentilated. Reverse. Within a closed laurel wreath the inscription in five lines, PROCLAMA- | DO EN MEXI- | CO AÑO DE. | 1789. | * 2 R* Border dentilated. Edge engrailed ☐☐☐ Copper. 28.

Similar to H. No. 163, which has the obverse legend punctuated throughout with small rosettes, while on the reverse there are no hyphens at the end of first and second lines of the inscription; in all other respects identical.

Oaxaca, Mexico.

16. Obverse. Arms of Spain, crowned, between two crowned pillars, with ribbons and motto as usual. Legend: A CARLOS IV. REY DE ESPANA Y DE LAS YNDIAS • Border dentilated. Reverse. Inscription in five lines with a laurel wreath, POR EL ALFEREZ'R' | D.FELIPE | ORDOÑEZ | DIAZ Legend: PROCLAMADO'ENLA CIUDAD D OAXACA'A'1789′ * Border dentilated. Edge . ■ • ■ •

Silver. 28.

Much like H. 174, the legend on the obverse of which is punctuated throughout with small rosettes. In other respects exactly the same as that on both obverse and reverse, the latter apparently from the same die.

Trinidad de Cuba, W. I.

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Obverse. Armored, laureated bust to right. Legend: CAROLUS IIII * * DEI GRATIA 1789. Border dentilated. Reverse. A shield of arms, quartered, supported by two lions. In the first quarter, a crowned doubleheaded imperial eagle; in the second, a small tree or shrub with a bird nested upon it to left; in the third, five crosses, and in the fourth, a "bend" or diagonal band. Legend: MANUEL DESOTOLONGO TRINIDAD Border dentilated. Edge engrailed 0000000 Silver. 26.

The resemblance to H. No. 226, is strong, the principal difference being in the punctuation of the legend on the obverse, which in H. has after ш an ornament of five pellets (+) The reverse is exactly the same except in some minor points.

[To be concluded.]

THE BRUCE GOLD MEDAL FOR ASTRONOMERS.

THE Directors of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, have formally accepted the foundation and endowment of the gold medal by Miss Catharine Wolfe Bruce, of New York City, to be awarded not oftener than once a year by the Society "for distinguished services to astronomy.' The medal is to be of gold, about sixty millimetres in diameter, and is to bear the seal of the Society on the obverse. The reverse is to have an appropriate inscription. The medal is to be awarded to one person annually out of a list of astronomers nominated to the Society by the Directors of the Lick, the Yerkes and the Harvard College Observatories, and of the Observatories of Paris, Greenwich and Berlin. It will not be given twice to the same person. It is gratifying to numismatists to see the increase of endowments providing for gifts of medals for original research in the various departments of science.