DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 



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The donations are chiefly due to the generosity of the 

 following persons, institutions, &c. : — The Central Comite 

 Inhuldigungsfeesten Amsterdam, the Asiatic Society of 

 Bengal, Major D. Lindsay Carnegie, the Viscountess Chet- 

 wynd, the Trustees of the Columbia University, Charles 

 Davis, Esq., Robert Day, Esq., F.S.A., Sir John Evans, k.c.b., 

 Lord Grantley, f.s.a., Arthur Griffith, Esq., Barclay V. 

 Head, Esq., D.C.L., the Huxley Memorial Committee, Mrs. 

 Theophilus Keene, Alfred J. Lawson, Esq., the Government 

 Central Museum, Madras, Spencer G. Perceval, Esq., His 

 Highness the Rajah of Pudukota, E. J. Seltmann, Esq., the 

 Siamese Government, W. S. Talbot, Esq., Mrs. Keppel Taylor, 

 Col. R. C. Temple, g.i.e., Mrs. Susanna Thacker, Sydney 

 Vacher, Esq , and Sir Hermann Weber, M.D. 



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 : — 



GLASS. 



Gold. 



Blectrum. 



Silver. 



Bronze. 



Mixed 



Metals, 



&c. 



Total. 



Greek 



2 



1 



222 



689 



10 



924 



Koman ..-..- 



20 



- 



161 



3 



- 



184 



Britisli and Colonial 



15 



- 



78 



8 



7 



108 



Medifeval aud Modem - 



- 



- 



61 



175 



27 



263 



Orieutal 



9 



- 



19 



1 



70 



99 



TOTAL - - - 



46 



1 



541 



87G 



114 



1,578 



Remarkable Coins and Medals. 



1. Greek Series : — 



{a.) Europe : — 



Tarentum. — A specimen, in remarkably fine condition, of 

 the extremely rare gold stater, struck circ. B.C. 340, with the 

 reverse-type the infant Taras making supplication to his 

 father Poseidon. This type is supposed by Mr. Arthur 

 Evans {Horsemen of Tarentum, 1889, p. 67) to refer to the 

 appeal made by the Tarentines in B.C. 344 to their Lace- 

 dsemonian fatherland (symbolized by the Laconian Poseidon 

 of Cape Taenarum) for aid against the Messapians and 

 Lucanians. Both reverse and obverse (a veiled head of 

 Demeter) are in the most finished style of the art of the 

 period. 



