DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 77 



issues down to the present day. These coins have already- 

 been chosen, and the work of arranging and labelling them 

 has been commenced. 



II. — Registration and Arrangement. 

 1. Greek Series : — 



680 coins, of various parts of the Greek world, recentl}^ 

 acquired, have been registered and incorporated. 



The work of writing and placing beneath the coins tickets 

 giving references to the published Catalogues of Greek Coins 

 has been continued, as follows : — Troas, 179 tickets ; Ionia, 

 2,225 tickets (completing these volumes). This work, which 

 extends over 17 volumes, has now been brought up to date. 



36 coins, hitherto classed as uncertain, have been identified, 

 and incorporated in their proper places. 



The following series have been removed to fresh cabinets, and 

 these parts of the collection have been expanded to admit of the 

 incorporation of new acquisitions : — Cilicia, Eastern Asia 

 Minor, Syria, Kings of Egypt, Alexandria, Cyrenaica, 

 Carthage and neighbourhood, Electrum series, Persia, Alliance 

 coins, Cistophori, False coins and Electrotypes of Spain, 

 Gaul, Britain, Northern and Middle, and part of Southern 

 Italy. 



The collections, at present unarranged, of Greek and Roman 

 leaden tesserae, have been placed together in a separate 

 cabinet. 



The following collections have been examined, and, where 

 necessary, selections have been made of coins desirable for the 

 Museum : — Two large series of coins and rubbings from 

 Smyrna ; the Earl of Ashburnham's collection ; a series of 

 coins, chiefly of Northern Asia Minor ; a small series, chiefly 

 of Pisidia ; a collection of Greek coins of all classes, belonging 

 to Lord Grantley ; the greater part of the Montagu Collection 

 of Greek coins. 



The coins of Lycia, Pamphylia, and Pisidia, in the Biblio- 

 theque Nationale at Paris, have been carefully examined, for 

 the purpose of obtaining additional information for the 

 catalogue of the coins of these districts, and casts of some of the 

 rarer coins not represented in the British Museum have been 

 obtained. 



In preparation for the Catalogue of Greek Coins, the work 

 of re-arranging the various series in chronological order, and of 

 weighing the specimens in gold and silver, has proceeded as 

 follows : — 



For the Catalogue of Lycia, Pamphylia, and Pisidia : — 

 The coins of Aspendus, Attalia, Perga, Side, Sillyum, and 

 Trebenna in Pamphylia ; Adada, Amblada, Andeda, Antioch, 

 Apollonia, Ariassus, Baris, Ceraitse, Comama, Conana, 

 Cremna, Etenna, Isinda, Lysiuia, Olbasa, Pal^eopolis, Pane- 



0.97. moteichos, 



