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SaturpDAYy, NoveMBER 297TH, 1851. 
THOMAS ROMNEY ROBINSON, D.D., Presipent, 
in the Chair. 
Tue Secretary exhibited an ancient brass seal of Thomas, Bi- 
shop of Elphin, obtained in England, through the kindness of 
Albert Way, Esq., in exchange for the ivory seal of “ St. 
John’s Hospital, outside the Barrier, Litchfield,” found some 
time since in the county of Wexford, and originally presented 
to the Museum of the Academy by the Rev. Nicholas Codd, 
of Carrick, County Wexford, who gave permission, at the 
time of its presentation, to exchange it for an Irish seal, should 
one be found in England. 
The following antiquities were presented to the Museum 
of the Academy : 
Four Roman coins; presented by J. B. Godfrey, M. D., 
of London. 
Dr. Petrie observed, that hitherto sufficient attention had 
not been paid to the ancient coins found in this country, simply 
. because they were not Irish. This was much to be regretted, 
for such coins ought to possess the greatest interest for the 
Trish antiquarian. Upon his own chimney-piece there was a 
coin of the Byzantine empire, found at Rathfarnham ; how it 
came there he could not explain; but the fact was, that Roman 
coins had been so constantly found in that locality, that when- 
ever he saw any of them in a shop-window and inquired where 
they were found, he was almost invariably told that they were 
found in the neighbourhood of Rathfarnham. He wished that 
- when Roman or other ancient coins were found in this country 
it would not be supposed that Irish antiquarians took no inte- 
rest in them; the very contrary was the case. 
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