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 AN ANTIQUE was shewn 10 us yesterday, silver coin, received in the course of business al the Patriotic Bank, 1T, the neighbofhood of our office, which would be considereda rarity any where, but IS par ticularly curiosity here, turning ID as # does h the general current of of circulation. Itis shilling piece # the reign of Queen EtiSobeth, of England, and Of course was eoined somewhere between the year 1858 and the year 1903, before a white man had ever set foot in any part of the territory now covered by the whole United States. There IS every probability that t came out in the pocket of one of the first settlers of this country from England- for aught We know in that of the valiant Capt. Smith, himself -and has been III fardy circulation ever sisces or perhaps deposited il some family collection, whence fl has lately escaped, in one Of the peninsuIas of Virginia or Mary land. Be that as ii may, the appearance ot t calls up in the mind involuntary asso- citations Of an interesting character. The British Revolution Is of modern date. con- pared with this coin. Since il issued from the British mint, and passed current among. the contemporary servants and subjects of the Virgin Queen, the Stuarts, Cronwells, William the Prince of Orange, Anne, and all the Georges, have successiyely swayed the realm of England, and descended to the tomb. For more than hundred years af. ter this piece of silver became moneY, pub lie debt vas unknown in England. Itis as old as the first newspaper ever published. and was ia circulation before potatoes had ever been eaten, or tea drank, in England or in any part of Europe.-.Nat. int,