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convenient cabinets, and new heading cards have been written 

 for the silver coins as far as the middle of the 3rd century. 

 The series issued at Antioch and Nicomedia during the Con- 

 stantinian period have been examined and several corrections 

 made in their arrangement. 



Reference tickets to the Catalogue of the Coins of the 

 Empire of Trebizond and of the Roman Republic have been 

 written and placed beneath the coins, and in the case of the 

 latter, cross references from the silver to the gold coins have 

 been inserted in the trays. 



A series of sulphur casts of coins not in the British Museum 

 has been sorted and arranged. 



Two very important finds of gold coins from Corbridge 

 have been examined, as well as others from El Centenillo 

 (Spain), Anglesey, Hengistbury Head, Hambledon (Bucks), and 

 a Roman camp near Saltburn, while selections have been made 

 from a dealer's stock of Roman silver coins from Augustus to 

 Commodus, and of Roman bronze from Augustus to Marcus 

 Aurelius. A selection of coins for electrotyping is in progress 

 with a view to forming an exhibition of representations of 

 Roman buildings. 



The general Bibliogr-aphy of Roman Numismatics has been 

 brought up to date, while a special Bibliography for the 

 Imperial period has been undertaken, and a beginning has 

 been made with a Card Index of Imperial coins classified 

 according to types. 



3. British and Colonial Series : — 



Two hundred a.nd sixty-three coins and 41 medals have 

 been registered, and 233 coins and 41 medals incorporated, 

 while five coins previously separated as duplicates have been 

 put back into the collection. Six hundred and seventy-seven 

 casts of coins not in the British Museum have been incorporated 

 in the collection of casts. 



The issues of the kings from William T. to Stephen have 

 been classified under types, and the coins of Henry III. 

 rearranged. The coins of the English kings from William I. 

 to Stephen in the British Museum have been compared with 

 the examples in many private collections and notes taken as to 

 moneyers, mints, etc. In the Colonial series corrections have 

 been made in connexion with the classification of counter- 

 marked coins. 



A find of ]ong--cross pennies of Henry III. from Steppingley 

 (Beds) has been examined, and coins found during the excava- 

 tions at Hengistbury Head have been cleaned and classified- 

 Selections have been made from two dealers' stocks of the 

 coins of Henry III. and Stephen, and also from a collection of 

 seventeenth century Tokens, while various sale catalogues have 

 been examined. The portion of the Mellendean (Roxburgh) 

 find, consisting of pennies of Edward I. and of Alexander III. 

 and John Baliol of Scotland, and also of deniers esterlins 



