With regard to the English Bronze Medals, they are still fewer in number, 

 there being only about two dozen of them. They mostly refer to a 

 later period, and form a strange mixture of tributes to Royal personages, 

 heroes, men of science, preachers aud others. The fall of Napoleon is 

 not unnoticed. 



There are twelve Foreign Silver Coins of large size, and eighty-four smaller 

 coins of Foreign origin. 



There are also twelve Foreign Silver Medals, several of which are very 

 weighty, and fourteen Foreign Bronze Medals. These latter are chiefly 

 French, and relate to the career of Napoleon. They appear to have 

 been presented soon after that career came to an end, and Mr. Richard 

 Smith, Surgeon, was the donor of at least four of them. They are of 

 large size and beautiful works of art. The remainder of these 

 Napoleonic Bronze Medals were given with other specimens by Mr. 

 J. Rickards and Mr. S. Worsley jointly. 



The remaining sections, which are classed as miscellaneous, do not call for 

 remark, but the following is a list of the whole. From this it will be 

 seen that the collection is a somewhat large and in many respects an 

 important one. It will also be gratifying to the Committee to realise 

 that by means of the Catalogue that has been prepared they will know 

 exactly what the City possesses, while the descriptions will, it is hoped, 

 enable their nature and peculiarities to be understood. 



It will, perhaps, be observed that no reference has so far been made to the 

 Roman Coins, of which there are a large number. This is not because 

 they are not valued as a series, but because they require an amount of 

 time which the Chairman cannot give, and because, to deal with them 

 properly, they need special knowledge which he does not possess. At 

 present there are nine drawers of named specimens. These of them- 

 selves comprise no fewer than 415 specimens. There is also a series of 

 twenty-three named specimens that was purchased, and the prices then 

 paid will show how valuable some of these coins are. Twenty-seven of 

 the Coins came from the old Central Library, and belonged originally to 

 the Catcott Collection. Some years ago Miss Woodward gave an 

 interesting collection of Roman Coins from the Stuckey Lean Collec- 

 tion that were found in Leigh Woods. These all have the obv. and 

 rev. described, and are kept separate. Others besides these were found 

 locally, and where it is possible the locality is mentioned. A number 

 of coins are in paper packets that have not yet been opened. In one 

 of the lower drawers of the Cabinet there is a huge collection of third 

 brass coins which may or may not be capable of identification. Exclud- 

 ing those last mentioned, there must be about 800 Roman Coins in the 



