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Leon, N. LA MONEDA DEL GENERAL INSURGENTE D. JOSE MARIA MORELOS. ENSAYO NUMISMÁTICO. Imprenta del "Estandarte"-San Luis Potosí, 1899. 8vo, self-covered. 7, (1) pages; text illustrations. Folded for mailing; tipped onto volume's front flyleaf. [bound with] Smith, Samuel, Jr. THE SILVER COINS AND THE MINTS OF SPANISH AMERICA, FROM THE INTRODUCTION OF THE TYPE WITH BUST OF THE KING IN 1772 TO 1825. Boston: For Private Circulation, 1895. 8vo, original printed card covers. 16 pages. Annotated by Lyman H. Low. Card covers detached, but present. [bound with] Betts, Benjamin. HANDWRITTEN LETTER TO LYMAN H. LOW DATED JUNE 28, 1886, DISCUSSING THE MORELOS PIECES IN THE FONROBERT CABINET. On three sides of two sheets of ruled notepaper, signed in ink by Betts. Preceded by a flyer advertising Low's March 24, 1887 talk at the rooms of the American Numismatic and Archaeological Society on the subject of "Tokens or Substitutes for Metallic Currency," and followed by an 1894 reproduction of a 15-leaf catalogue of Morelos coins handwritten in Spanish, into which is integrated a reproduced double lithographic plate of Morelos coins and an original photographic plate (folded and bound in) depicting Morelos coins. [bound with] Low, Lyman Haynes. A SKETCH OF THE COINAGE OF THE MEXICAN REVOLUTIONARY GENERAL MORELOS. New York: Privately Printed, 1886. Crown 4to, original printed card covers. 18 pages, interleaved with ruled paper; text figures. Annotated by the author, with coin rubbings. Followed by the rare broadsheet supplement, also annotated by Low. [bound with] Betts, Benjamin. SOME UNDESCRIBED SPANISH-AMERICAN PROCLAMATION PIECES-SUPPLEMENT. (Boston): Privately Printed, 1900. Crown 4to, original printed front card cover. 11, (1) pages; 2 plates. [bound with] Betts, Benjamin. SOME UNDESCRIBED SPANISH-AMERICAN PROCLAMATION PIECES. (Boston): Privately Printed, 1898. Crown 4to, original printed front card cover. 25, (1) pages; 6 plates. Inscribed by the author. [bound with] Betts, Benjamin. MEXICAN IMPERIAL COINAGE: THE MEDALS AND COINS OF AUGUSTINE I (ITURBIDE), MAXIMILIAN, THE FRENCH INVASION, AND OF THE REPUBLIC DURING THE FRENCH INTERVENTION. Privately Printed, 1899. Crown 4to, original printed front card cover. 48 pages; 16 lithographic plates; added portrait illustration. Inscribed by author to Lyman Low on cover. Occasional annotations. All bound in contemporary brown half morocco, gilt; spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Spine taped and binding in need of restoration. Contents generally near fine. A wonderful volume from the library of Lyman H. Low, one of the most knowledgeable professional numismatists in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It brings together several rare offprints on Latin-American numismatic topics, particularly on the coinage of José María Morelos and Spanish-American proclamation medals. The letter from Betts to Low is substantive on the topic of the Morelos coins in the Fonrobert collection, and the original photographic plate bound into this volume is of high quality. Ex Louis E. Elisaberg, Sr. Library; ex Richard A. Eliasberg Library.