Pallas holding in her left hand a shield on which are three Jleurs de lis (the arms of France) ; opposed to her is a leopard (England), in the act of springing, into whose breast she is about to plunge a barbed javelin that she holds in her dexter hand. Beneath the shield is an Infant strangling with one hand a serpent, which he is holding up, whilst he stoops and chokes another found at his feet. Legend. Non sine Diis animosus infans Exergue. 17 1777

19 • 1781

This bronze Medal belongs to the Worden Collection of the N. Y. State Library ; it is a beautiful specimen of art, and in its design highly classical. Hercules, according to the ancient mythology, was said to have strangled whilst in his cradle, two serpents which had assaulted him, having been assisted by the protection of tlie goddess Pallas. Infant America, like Hercules in his cradle, had destroyed two British armies. The two epochs of those exploits are marked in the Exergue 17 Oct. 1777 -- Burgoyne's Surrender at Saratoga -- and 19ti> Octob. 1781 -- Cornwallis' Surrender at Yorktown, Va. The motto is from Horace, Ode 4, Book III. v. 20. The allusion is highly appropriate.' The Medal was struck by tlie French Go-^^ernment.

1 Mease's Descrirt. 6f Amer. Medals, 3 Mass, Hist. Sdc. CoU. IV, 307.

1183 MEDALS AND COINS.

The smaller engraving on this plate is a representation of a rare Copper cent, struck soon after the Treaty of peace. The