80 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



A silver plaquette executed in commemoi-ation of the 

 accession of Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland. 

 Presented by the Central Cowiite Inhuldigungsfeesten, 

 Amsterdam. 



A set of medals in bronze, struck by order of Napoleon I., 

 to commemorate the chief battles and events of his reign, 

 together with a descriptive catalogue. From the Coryton 

 Collection. Presented by Mrs. Ke2:>pel Taylor. 



A series of decorations, together with the official documents 

 relating to them, conferred upon Miss Ann Thacker, by 

 William I., Emperor of Germany, the Empress Augusta, the 

 King of Saxony, and others, for her services as a Volunteer 

 Nurse during the Franco-German War, 1870-71. Presented 

 by Mrs. Susanna Thacker. 



A bronze medal in commemoration of Professor Drisler's 

 fifty years of service in the University of Columbia. Pre- 

 sented by the Trustees of the Columbia University. 



5. Oriental Series : — 



Five gold coins of Kalifiga, two silver coins of the 

 Bahmani dynasty, and one gold and one silver coin of Assam. 

 ^Presented by the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



One gold Pagoda, struck by Krishna Raja, of Vijayanagar, 

 and three lead Andhra coins. From the Government Central 

 Museum, Madras. 



Three dollars countermarked for circulation in the Malay 

 Peninsula, four iron imitations of spears used as currency .by 

 the Nagas inhabiting the hills between Assam and Burma, 

 and sixty- three porcelain Siamese gamblers' tokens. Pre- 

 sented by Col. R. C. Temple, c.i.e. 



A sandstone mould for casting coin-dies. Presented by 

 W. S. Talbot, Esq. 



A remarkable gold coin bearing the types of the Kusana 

 king, Kanlska, but having on the reverse an inscription in 

 Sassanian Pahlavi. Presented by Major D. Lindsay 

 Carnegie. 



Othei- acquisitions include a new type of the bronze coinage 

 of the Gmeco-Indian King Artemidorus, a gold coin of 

 Assam, and eleven silver coins of Baroda of the present 

 century. 



V. — Students and Visitors. 



The number of students and visitors to the Department 

 of Coins and Medals during the year 1898 was 3,285. 



Barclay V. Head. 



