DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 



Department of Coins and Medals. 

 I. — Registration and Arrangement. 



1. — Greek Series. 



918 coins recently acquired have been weighed and registered 

 and 1,333 incorporated, while 104 casts and electrotypes have been 

 incorporated in the collection of casts, &c., of coins not in the 

 Museum. Various collections of coins offered for purchase or 

 donation have been examined and selections made, notably from the 

 well-known collection of the late Sir Hermann Weber. All the 

 coin trays in the Greek series have been re-labelled with running 

 numbers and the labels of the cabinets containing them have been 

 re-written so as to correspond with their contents. The series of 

 early electrum coins has been transferred into glazed trays of the 

 new pattern. The bibliography has been kept up to date. 



2. — Roman Series. 



438 coins recently acquired have been registered and 504 

 incorporated, while a considerable number of coins hitherto classed 

 as "duplicates" or "miscellaneous" have been re-examined, and 

 souk; of them have been found worthy of incorporation in the regular 

 series. The collection of casts and electrotypes of coins not in the 

 British Museum has been re-arranged throughout and important 

 additions made. Collections offered for purchase or donation have 

 b(Hm examined and selections made. The collections of forgeries and 

 of barbarous imitations of the Imperial Series have been re-arranged, 

 while the coinage of the reign of Septimius Severus has been re- 

 classified chronologically and according to mints. A beginning has 

 also been made with the re-classification of the issues of the later 

 third century. The bibliography has been kept up to date. 



3. — British and Colonial Series. 



4,446 coins have been registered and 3,538 incorporated, the 

 large totals being due to the recent accession of the Morgan-Evans 

 Collection of Anglo-Saxon and English coins, of the Evans Col- 

 lection of early British coins and of the Graham Collection of 

 English coins. Collections offered for purchase or donation have 

 been examined and selections made. 



4. — Modern and Mediaeval Series. 



1,446 coins have been registered and 2,977 incorporated (in- 

 cluding the Dewick bequest). Various collections offered for pur- 

 chase or donation have been examined and selections made. The 

 Italian medals of the fifteenth century have been re-arranged and 

 re-labelled and the German and other War Medals have been 

 re-classified according to subjects. 



