Excerpt from An Arrangement of Medals and Tokens, Struck in Honor of the Presidents of the United States: And of the Presidential Candidates, From the Administration of John Adams to That of Abraham Lincoln, Inclusive The object of this compilation is simply to invite the attention of American Numismatists to a class of Medals that has hitherto been greatly neglected; a class that is inferior to none in variety and interest, and that has a more immediate bearing on the history of our country than any other. 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.