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[[strikethrough]] The Medallic [[/strikethrough]]
[[underlined]] Medals and Monuments [[/underlined]]

   The medallic history of the United States is quite fully shown by the museum collection which now includes all the medals [[strikethrough]] of the ^[[issue]] [[/strikethrough]] struck by order of Congress, [[strikethrough]] and very [[/strikethrough]] a large number of medals commemorating national and local events of greater ot less importance and quite a full series of the smaller class of medals and tokens [[strikethrough]] illustrating ^[[some]] also forming the strong Foreign medals [[/strikethrough]] exhibiting the medallic history of the Presidential campaigns, [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] centennials and bicentennials of settlement of towns, etc.  
   The foreign medals the Museum collection [[strikethrough]] has [[/strikethrough]] is not very complete though there are many of much interest.