Coins of Brazil.
One coin, a gold “half-joe,” issued in 1832, with the infant head of Dom Pedro, is very beautiful. By the side of this, in every way a contrast to it, is a series of copper coins of a late issue with the head of the “child” now seated on the throne. The coins of Bolivia proudly present the bust of Simon Bolivar. Among the West Indies are many samples of “cut money.” The law permitting money to be quartered had to be repealed, because the traders of the West Indies made the wonderful mathematical discovery that five quarters make a whole!
Leaving both the eastern and the western world and their coins, there is a single piece, of small commercial value, which is yet a light-house in mid-ocean. This is the one cent of the Sandwich Islands, the only venture of that kind made by the enterprising little kingdom. The inscription is “Kamehameha III., one hundredth, Hawaii.” The name of the king being interpreted signifies “the solitary one,” which is singularly well adapted to the coin.