52 accounTkS, etc., of the British museum. 



Two bronze coins o£ Anaeb and Joel, kings of Axum. Presented 

 hy Signor A. Anzani. 



3. British and Colonial Series : — 



A London penny of type V of William II. ALGAR.ON.LVNDN. 

 Presented hy L. A. Lawrence, Esq. F.S.A. 



A half-crown of Charles I., struck at York ; on the reverse to 

 right of crown, a small letter, apparently B, for Nicholas Briot. 

 Presented hy Miss Helen Farquhar. 



Fifty-one 17th. cent, traders' tokens of Somerset. Presented hy 

 Cliarles 71te, Esq. 



Unique silver plaque of the time of Charles II., engraved with 

 portraits of Charles I. and Charles II., and an inscription : " Give 

 thy Judgments, God, unto the King and thy Righteousnesse to 

 the King's Sonn." Presented hy the Rev. Francis J. Eld. 



4. Mediwval and Modern Series : — 



A gold Merovingian tremissis of the 7th cent., attributed to 

 Pfalzel in Rhenish Prussia. Presented hy A. E. Press^ Esq. 



An unpublished gold solidus of Ervigius king of the Visigoths 

 (680-687 A.D.), struck at Elvira in Spain. 



A gold coin of Alfonso VIII. of Castile (1158-1214), imitated 

 from contemporary Moorish coins, with ALF and a cross added. 



A silver triple-daler of Christian IV. of Denmark (1588-1648). 

 Presented hy the Rt. Hon. the Earl Spencer, K.G. 



A series of rare Portuguese Colonial Coins from the Grogan 

 Collection, including a unique double Xerafim of Don Pedro II. ; a 

 Xerafim of the same ruler struck at Diu, and six other unique Goa 

 coins of various rulers. 



5. Oriental Series : — 



A fine series of gold, silver, and copper coins of various 

 Muhammadan dynasties from the collection formed by the late 

 Colonel W. F. Prideaux, C.S.I. These include rare coins of the 

 Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates of South Arabian mints, a unique 

 series of coins of the Rasulid dynasty, the Imams of Sana, the 

 Imams of Sa'ada and other South Arabian dynasties, a small collec- 

 tion of the coins of Harar, which are almost unknown in European 

 collections, and rarities from Central Asian and Indian mints. 



A very rare gold coin of Abd al-Rahiro, a feudatory of al-Mansur 

 of Valencia, struck at Valencia between 470-485 a.h. Presented by 

 Horace Sandars, Esq., F.S.A. 



A series of 23 early Hindu copper coins of various states. 

 Presented hy H. Nelson Wright, Esq., I.C.S. 



A series of 109 rupees of Shah Alam II. of Oudh mints, and of 

 his successors the independent Shahs of Oudh from the Rai Bareli 

 find. Presented hy the Government of the United Provinces. 



