An Important Collection Of British Historical Medals PDF Download

Excerpt from The Collection of Historical Coins and Medals Relating to American History, the Dominion of Canada and Awards to Indian Chiefs and British Regal and War Medals: Formed by W. H. Hunter, Esq., Toronto This collection is an interesting assemblage of the numismatic historical monuments commemorating the foundation of the French and British colonies in North America that subsequently comprised the Dominion of Canada. Some of the earliest of these were designed as awards to Indian Chiefs for their services or as tokens of friendship, and with the related series of medals awarded by the United States have been developed into the finest collection of them that has ever been made. Then the medallic memorials of the War between France and Great Britain, which involved their colonies in America, is represented by important and interesting examples, and medals referring to North America are included. These are followed by medals referring to the Revolutionary War of separation from the mother country, of the por tion that subsequently formed the United States, together with a num ber of the very rare medals relating to the War of 1812, given by Great Britain to her troops who served in America; then another series of a few representative English coins of these periods and of British historical medals and the later coins and medals of Canada to the present time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.