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Show do Btrucii Hearing tne eiiigies' 01 our prosilent8, commencing by issuing 1,-000,000 1,-000,000 pieces bearing the bead of Washington, Wash-ington, then ii-suing each six months following as many bearing the effigy of each president until wo arrive at the present time. After this, to carry out the idea, a series should be issued during tlio administration of each president. By so doing you will teach your children and your children's children the history of their country more readily and effect- j ively than by any other means, and leave J imperishable monuments of theso links i in the history cf our country. Ask any one how many presidents we have had, how long they were at the head of (he administration, how many could answer the question? Had we a coinage, one as I have described, almost every one would have a collection of the coins bearing effigies and inscriptions Htatitifr, the duration dura-tion of their administration, which would familiarize them with our history. I thou say let us have a coinage bearing bear-ing the effigies of our presidents. I am sure there is nothing antagonistic to a republican sentiment in this, for we have paper money displaying portraits: of our presidents and great men; also on our postage stamps. Can we hope that in 8,000 years from now any of theso paper mementoes will bo in existence? No; but a coin lasts forever, for surely we have coins extant that were issued six centuries centu-ries before Christ. If you are skeptical examine any good collection of coins and you will find inor than ono of that ago, and some of the Eighth century be-foro be-foro Christ, and even older. Therefore we now reasonably expect our coinage would be extant six centuries in the future. fut-ure. Show an ancient coin to a numismatist; ho will not only tell you the name of the king or emperor during whose reign it was issued, the history of the country, but, what is more to the point, ho will tell you to what degree of artistic refinement refine-ment and civilization that couutry had arrived, whether its prosperity was on the increase or not, and how, simply by the purity of tho metal used and the excellence ex-cellence of the die. I am sura we excel in killfulnesM of die cutting and designing. This new coinago would also familiarize familiar-ize tho world with the greatness of our country for all time to come. Should we issue, say 1,000,000 coins of the denomination denomina-tion of fifty cents or of twenty-five cents, how many would be in circulation in one year? I would venture to say none. They would And their way to every nook nnd corner of the globe, be preserved in museums mu-seums and private-collections all over the world, and even the little Hindoo and Chinese boy centuries hence would as readily tell their contemporaries all about George Washington, the first president of tho United States, of President Lincoln Lin-coln and of our present president, and the entire series, and would be as familiar famil-iar with the history of the present era of the United States as that of their own era and country. Paul E. Beckwith in Washington Star. history' told BY COINS. A Numismatist's Idea Concerning Various New Designs ou All Mono'. Let us look at the knowledge of a numismatist nu-mismatist in the history of all nations, llow glibly he will tell you that Buch and Euch a king lived in such a year. Ho will recognize at a glance the lineaments of Cleopatra, Julius Ca?sar, Antoniua or any of the ancient worthies, and of more modern days he is familiar with the history his-tory of the dynasties of all the reigning families. Why? Simply from his study of the effigies of those rulers depicted upon the coinage of their countries, "What would we know of many oriental etr,,es were it not for their respective coinage? AVhat would we know of many kings and emperors? What assuranco have we of the duration of many historical histor-ical eras? The answer is by the history as depicted upon the coins of various countries. Rome had her libraries, so had Greece. War and tire destroyed their archives, and but for the coinago of tl. imes our knowledge of the existence exist-ence !f such countries would be slight indeed. Then, if in the course of centuries cen-turies hence history should repent itself, and the written history of our days be destroyed, would our coinage teach the people of that era anvthing of our his- tory? No. From the uncouth designs upon our coinage wo would be taken for barbarians. Then, I say, let us have a coinage tiiat will teach all nations until the end of timo that we were a great and glorious nation. And how may we do this? By adopting suitablo designs for pur coinage. I would advocate that one series of pains, 6ay the half dgllar pieces, should |