DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 



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Lawrence, Esq., Mrs. Matthews and Mrs. Sutherland Orr, 

 Miss E. A. Ormerod and Miss G. Ormerod, W. R. Paton, Esq., 

 C. R. Peers, Esq., Mr. J. Pinches, S. B. ETosevear, Esq., Cecil 

 H. Smith, Esq., H. Weber, Esq., M.D., Mr. F. Whelan, Lt.-Col. 

 L. W. Wilmer, and Warwick Wroth, Esq. 



Owing to the dispersion, at several public auctions during 

 the year, of two of the most extensive collections of rare 

 Greek, Roman gold, and English coins, ever formed by private 

 individuals, viz., the collections of the late Mr, Hyman 

 Montagu, and of the late Sir Edward H. Bunbury, Bart., the 

 most valuable additions of any one year of the present 

 century have been made to the Department, although 

 numerically they are not in excess of the average. 



The following Table shows the number of the new acquisi- 

 tions in the various metals, classified according to the several 

 series to which they belong : — 



Electrum.! Silver. 



Mixed 

 Metals. 



Greek - - 

 iloman . . - . 

 British, Colonial, &c. 

 Mediaeval and Modem - 

 Oriental . - - - 

 Total 



50 

 133 

 112 



5ie 

 109 

 56 



Remarkable Coins and Medals. 

 1. Greek Series : — 

 (a) Europe. 

 Britain. — A gold stater of Eppillus, a British Chief, 

 who ruled in Kent, son of Commius, and brother of Tin- 

 commius and Verica. The only other specimen of this coin 

 is in the collection of Sir John Evans. 



Britain. — A gold stater of Epaticcus, son of Tasciovanus 

 and brother of Cunobelinus (Cymbeline), King of the Central 

 Districts of Britain. 



Britain. — Various other rare 

 Cunobelinus, and of the Iceni. 



coins of Tasciovanus, 



Central Italy. — An extremely rare Quincussis, B.C. 3-50-300, 

 of oblong form and weighing 27,627 grs. (formerly in the 

 Pembroke Collection). The type of this ponderous coin is a 



0.125. E 4 Bull 



