86 accounts, etc., of the british musel'm. 



Department of Coins and Medals. 

 I. — Registration and Arrangement. 



1. Greek Series : — 



Three hundred and seventy-five coins of various parts of 

 the Greek world, recently acquired, have been registered and 

 362 incorporated, while 752 coins previously set aside as 

 duplicates have been re-incorporated. 



The coinage of Lysimachus and of Macedon from Philip III. 

 (Arrhidseus) down to its cessation under the Romans has been 

 arranged, fresh heading cards inserted and fresh labels written 

 for the cabinets. Fresh heading cards have also been written 

 for the Bruttian, Campanian, Corinthian, Cypriote, Aeginetic 

 and Ptolemaic series, while a concordance of the coins described 

 in the Catalogue of Corinth has also been drawn up to indicate 

 their present position in the trays. Reference tickets to the 

 coins described in the Catalogue of Phoenicia have been written 

 and placed beneath the coins, and references to the most recent 

 publications have been provided in the same way for several of 

 the autonomous series of Thrace. 



Two hundred and seventy-seven casts have been incorpo- 

 rated in the collection of Cs.sts and Electrotypes of coins not 

 in the British Museum and this addition has necessitated the 

 inclusion of another cabinet. A beginning has also been made 

 with the rearrangement of the collection of sulphur casts. 



The following collections have been examined with a view 

 to making selections either for presentation or purchase : — 

 (<x) a portion of the celebrated Damanhur (Egypt) find of 

 tetradrachms of Alexander the Great ; (6) a series of Cypriote 

 and other Greek coins ; (^) a collection of coins from the Eastern 

 part of the Greek world ; and (d) various Sale Catalogues, 

 British and Continental. 



A fresh selection of coins is being made with a view to 

 enlarging the Exhibition of Electrotypes. 



The MS. Bibliography of Numismatics has been brought up 

 to date, and progress has been made with the Card Index 

 of Coins arranged according to types, while an index of the 

 city names on Greek coins, arranged according to terminals to 

 assist in identification, is nearing completion. 



2. .Ror)ian and Byzantine Ser^es : — 



Five hundred and seventy-eight coins, Republican and 

 Imperial, have been registered and 568 incorporated. The 

 coins formerly set aside as duplicates have been examined, and 

 14 incorporated, while a large number have been arranged and 

 put aside for further study. 



A close study is being made of the issues of the Early 

 Empire. The coins of Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and Claudius 

 have been weighed, rearranged, and transferred to more 



