46 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Forty-eight specimens o£ the German thaler coinage of various 

 states, chiefly Austria, Mansfeld and Saxony, including a fine double 

 thaler of Johann Georg, Duke of Saxony, 1616. Presented hy the 

 Executors of the late S. Cohen, Esq. 



A selection of 392 modern coins, including a very complete 

 series of the nickel and copper coinage of the German Empire, of 

 various dates and mints hitherto unrepresented in the Museum. 

 Presented hy Henry Garside, Esq. 



Two specimens of the gold pond struck by the Boer Government in 

 1902 out of gold taken from the battery of the Transvaal Gold 

 Mining Estates ; obv. EEN POND ; rev. monogram of Z.A.R. and 

 date 1902. Only three specimens are said to have been made of 

 one of these varieties. Presented by Sir Lionel Phillips, Bart. 



Three gold coins of the vassals of the Almoravids, llth-12th cent., 

 from a hoard discovered about three years ago in the banks of the 

 Guadalquivir. Presented by Horace Sandars, Esq., F.S.A. 



A gold Padma Tanka of Shri Rama, 15th-16th cent. Presented 

 by the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. • 



B. — Medals. 



An unpublished bronze medal commemorating the foundation by 

 Cardinal Jacopo Savelli in 1565 of a house for the association of 

 Papal grooms ; obv. Virgin and Child with St. Anne ; rev. Arms 

 of Savelli. Presented by Maurice Rosenheim, Esq., F.S.A. 



A silver medal of the Swedish freemason Patrick Alstromer, 

 1785. Presented by Mrs. J. S. Wilks. 



Twenty-nine medals issued in Germany during the present war, 

 commemorating various events and embodying various claims. 

 Among these are : a large cast iron medal representing an air attack 

 on London, 17th-18th August, 1915, with Zeppelins over the 

 Tower Bridge ; the medal (in iron) commemorating the sinking of 

 the " Lusitania " (represented as a war-ship with ram, laden with 

 aeroplanes, guns, &c.) ; a medal (in bronze) of Admiral von Tirpit/, 

 with Neptune afloat on a submarine shaking his fist at English 

 shipping ; a medal (in bronze) of the Crown Prince Wilhelm as 

 young Siegfried ; and a silver medal of General von Kluck, rev. 

 Fury on horseback " Nach Paris, 1914." Twenty-one of these were 

 presented by a friend of the Museum. 



Bronze medal or plaque commemorating the Victory of the 

 Marne, by S. Kinsburger. 



Bronze medal in memory of the French men of letters who 

 have fallen in the war, by M. Henry Nocq. Presented by the Artist. 



A silver medal by Chaplain of the 25th anniversary of the Ny- 

 Carlsberg Brewery. Presented by Miss Hargrove. 



Two bronze medals commemorating the Battles of Heligoland 

 Bight and Dogger Bank, and the Battle of Jutland Bank. Presented 

 by Admiral The Marquis of Milford Haven, G. C.B. 



