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
Device on this coin is a laurelled head of Washington.
Inscription, Washington and Independence, 1783.
Reverse, A wreath inclosing the words " One Cent"
Inscription, Unity States of America, ^io-
The coin from which this engraving was made, belongs to the Albany Institute, to which it was presented by Mr. William McElroy. It has been declared by some to be" the Washington Cent, but the probability is that it is a token manufactured at the time in England by some private speculator, and sent for circulation to America, and that the portrait of Washington, (which is very well executed,) was selected to give it greater currency. It is mentioned by Felt, Mass. Currency, p. 252, who adds that it is not mentioned in the Journals of Congress.
PLdTE 11.
THE ROSA AMERICANA COINS.
The four engrav^ings on this plate are 1° o. farthing; 2" and 3° a half penny, of different dates; 4° a penny. On the last, the