48 accounts, etc., of the british museum. 



Department of Coins and Medals. 

 I. — Registration and Arrangement. 



1. Greek Series. 



459 coins recently acquired have been registered and incor- 

 porated, and numerous casts and electrotypes o£ coins not in the 

 British Museum have been incorporated. Various collections o£ 

 coins offered have been examined and selections made. A systematic 

 re-examination o£ the coins, which had in former years been set aside 

 as duplicates, has been begun. The bibliography of Greek Numis- 

 matics has been kept up to date, and additions made to the Card 

 Index of coin-types. 



2. JRoman Series. 



12 coins recently acquired have been registered and incorporated. 

 A large collection of casts of Roman medallions presented by Comm. 

 Francesco Gnecchi has been arranged tor reference. Collections 

 offered have been examined and selections made. The Roman 

 Imperial denarii of the second half of the 3rd cent, have been 

 examined on behalf of a numismatist studying the subject. The 

 bibliography has been kept up to date. 



3. British and Colonial Series. 



613 coins, medals and tokens recently acquired have been regis- 

 tered and 337 incorporated. Collections offered have been examined 

 and selections made. The coins in the Bodleian Library and 

 Ashmolean Museum have been examined. Re-arrangements in 

 accordance with recent researches have been made in the following 

 series : the coinage of the 8th — 9th cent. ; the short-cross series 

 (Henry II. — Henry III.) ; the 17th cent, tokens of the counties 

 from Rutland to Yorks and Wales, and the 18th cent, tokens of 

 Somerset and Scotland ; the war medals later than 1760. 



4. Mediaeval and Modern Series. 



130 coins and medals recently acquired have been registered and 

 ■90 incorporated, and 2& casts of coins not in the British Museum 

 incorporated. The re-arrangement of the series of Northern Italy 

 has been begun in accordance with the King of Italy's Corpus. 

 Collections of coins offered have been examined and selections made. 

 The casts of Italian medals not in the British Museum have been 

 arranged for reference in a new cabinet. 



5. Oriental Series. 



222 coins recently acquired have been registered and incor- 

 porated. The coins in the Stein Collection from Central Asia have 

 been revised ; the re-examination of the duplicates has been begun ; 

 the coins of the modern Indian States and of the sub-Sassanian 

 series have been studied and various collections submitted have been 

 examined and selections made. 



6. Departmental Library. 



The re-cataloguing of the library of numismatic works on the 

 card system has been begun, and about two-thirds of the books 

 catalogued. 



