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NéSTOR PONCE DE LEóN Y LA GUARDIA (1837-1899)John Lupia submitted the following information from the online draft of his book of numismatic biographies for this week's installment of his series. Thanks. As always, this is an excerpt with the
full article and bibliography available online. This week's subject is Cuban-born N. Ponce de León, a member of both the American Numismatic Society and the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia.
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In 1858, he graduated with a degree in Juisprudence. In 1865, he donated a copy of a book on Spanish royal medals : Ensayo de un catálogo descriptivo de las medallas de proclamaciones de los Reyes de España, por Hipólito Pérez Varela. (Habana, imprenta Nacional y Extranjera: 1863). He was unanimously elected as a Foreign Corresponding Member of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia. He and his family fled the Cuban police who had a warrant for his arrest publishing revolutionary pamphlets defending the Yara Revolution and arrived in New York City, New York, in February 1869.  In New York he practiced law and was a bookseller and publisher. He also was the founder of the Central Revolutionary Board of Cuban Immigrants. He was a great advocate and aid to José Martí. On January 21, 1875, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States of America. On January 16, 1877, he was elected a resident member of the ANS. In 1877, he published a Fixed Price List, Catalogue of a Large Collection of Roman and Greek Coins. He died on December 17, 1899, at Habana, Cuba. Pictured is de León's correspondence with the Chapman Brothers postmarked September 27, 1878. Unusual placement of the postage stamp! -Editor
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