Excerpt from Catalogue of the Valuable and Highly Interesting Collection of Coins, Medals and Tokens, the Property of Benjamin Betts, of Brooklyn, N. Y: Consisting of Early American Medals, Store Cards of New York City, and Others, Embracing Most of the Rarest Known; Badges and Decorations of the War With Mexico and War of the Rebellion, With Medalets of Davis and Beauregard In the following pages among his valuable, and, in a great many instances, extremely rare acquisitions, especial attention is called to the groups which, for the past fifteen years, have absorbed so large a share of his attention I refer to the Spanish American Proclamation Pieces, a division in which he must be ranked as a pre-eminently distinguished authority. This lot con tains an unusual number of extremely rare examples, some Of which are for the first time described. 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.