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simple manner. I congratulate him upon its success, and am 
glad that in his love of Natural History, he is following in the 
footsteps of his father. The paper will be found in our 
Proceedings. 
The Third Meeting was held on February 23rd, when the 
Rey. A. Winnington-Ingram gave an interesting paper on 
“Coins.” Dr Day afterwards exhibited three coins belonging 
to Sir Brook Kay, one being half a dollar of Spain personally 
stamped by King George III. It appears a Spanish ship with 
silver on board, having been captured by an English vessel, it 
was determined that instead of re-coining the dollars they 
should be stamped with the King’s effigy and issued as current 
coins of the realm. George III occasionally amused himself 
with this stamping, and an ancestor of Sir Brook Kay’s—a 
great friend of the King’s, found him one day thus employed, 
when His Majesty gave him this half-dollar. The other two 
coins were a silver dollar issued by the Bank of England in 
1804, and a bank token for ten-pence, Irish, coined in 1818. 
Dr Day likewise shewed a Burmese rupee, having the device of 
a peacock; and a leaden coin on which there is a hare; also 
some debased silver coinage of Travancore; and a small copper 
piece weighing over a few grains. He remarked that the 
coinage of Ceylon clearly shews that at four different periods 
the island has been subjected to the rule of Malabar, which 
invariably, when in the ascendant, had the battle-axe of 
Parasu-Ramah placed as a device on the convex coinage of 
Ceylon. 
The Rev. Dr Smithe shewed a few ancient coins, perfect in condition :— 
A gold piece of the Emperor Valentinian I. (about 360 A.D., struck at Milan); 
also some silver, equally fine, of Septimus Severus, who died at York 211 
A.D., of Commodus Britt, A.D. 70, of Trajan, and of Constantine the Great. 
A well-preserved silver, bearing the stamp of the best period of Greek Art, 
was one of Menander, King of Bactria, who pushed his conquests to the 
Punjab, beyond the River Sutlej, and whose coins have been found as far 
East as the Jumna. 
Mr J.D. Robertson alluding to the debasement of the coinage in the 
16th century, said that although it had reached its worst point under Edward 
VI., the restoration to the old Standard had been nearly effected by the same 
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