Coimbra
capital of the Portuguese example was soon followed. The Britons province of Beira, on a hill above the Mondego river, here crossed by a stone bridge, 135 miles N. N. E. of Lisbon. Its streets are steep and narrow, its manuand Saxons coined silver. Fineness of United States Coin. The gold coins are nine-tenths fine; the silver factures confined chiefly to earthenware coins, nine-tenths fine; the copper-nickel and combs. The place derives its name from the Roman Conimbrica, traces of which lie to the S.; it was held by the Goths, and from them passed to the Moors, from whom it was finally conquered in 1064, by Fernando the Great, aided by the gallant Cid. Coimbra was the capital of Portugal for about two centuries and a half from its erection into a kingdom, in 1139, and many of the early kings are buried in and around the old town. Of the public buildings, the most noteworthy are the older of the two cathedrals, the Church of San Salvador, and the ruined Convent of Santa Clara; across the river is the Quinta das Lagrimas ("House of Tears"), where Inez de Castro was coins, such as the 5-cent piece, are onefourth nickel and three-fourths copper; the bronze coins are 95 per cent. copper and 5 per cent. tin and zinc. The alloy in the gold coins is silver and copper; in the silver coins, copper.