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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



III. — Acquisitions. 



The total number of coins and medals added to the 

 Department during the year 1912 was 2,260, of which 270 are 

 of gold, 1,327 of silver, 636 of bronze, and 27 of other metals. 



The following table shows the numbers of the new acqui- 

 sitions, classified according to the several series to which they 

 belong : — 











Other 





Class. 



Gold. 



Silver. 



Bronze. 



Metals. 



etc. 



Total. 



Greek .... 



7 



278 



123 



2 



410 



Roman 



215 



349 



28 



1 



.593 



British and Colonial 



15 



191 



4B 



2 



2.54 



Mediaeval and Modern 



4 



100 



73 



20 



197 



Oriental ... - 



29 



409 



306 



2 



80(; 



Total 



270 



1,327 



636 



27 



2,260 



Of the above, 674 have been presented, viz., 9 of gold, 

 373 of silver, 268 of bronze, and 24 of other metals. 



The following is a list of benefactors to the Department 

 of Coins and Medals during the past year : — 



His Majesty Victor Emmanuel III,. King of Italy ; the 

 Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society ; the Deputy 

 Master of the Mint ; the Egypt Exploration Fund : the 

 National Art-Collections Fund ; the India Office, through the 

 Earl of Crewe ; the Thakur of Piploda ; John Allan, Esq. ; 

 H. F. Amedroz, Esq. ; the Rev. Gerard W. Bancks ; J. T. 

 Bennett-Poe, Esq. ; Monsieur L. Bouvat ; Frank Bowcher, Esq. ; 

 P. W. P. Carlyon-Britton, Esq. ; J. Thacher Clarke, Esq. ; 

 Mrs. Cripps ; O. M. Dalton, Esq. ; R. Dalton, Esq. ; Colonel 

 H. E. Deane ; Monsieur A. Dieudonne ; EveJyn Grant Duff, 

 Esq., C.M.G. ; Messrs. L. Duval and L. Janvier ; Miss Edwards; 

 Alexander Farkas, Esq. ; Miss Helen Farquhar ; Professor 

 E. A. Gardner; the lion. Lady Gatacre ; Senor Joao Gomes- 

 do Rego ; H. A. Grueber, Esq. : H. P. Hall, Esq. ; J. Harvey, 

 Esq.; F. W. Hasluck, Esq. : Professor W. H. Heckler; Kristian 

 Hellstrom, Esq. ; Miss Rose Beresford Herbert ; Gray Hill, 

 Esq. ; Miss M. Irempnger ; Sir R. Hamilton Lang, K. C.M.G. ; 

 L. A. Lawrence, Esq. ; the Misses Rosamond and Caroline 

 Layard ; Colonel H. P. P. Leigh ; C. E. Low, Esq., c.i.E. ; 

 George Macdonald, Esq. ; Lieut. -Colonel Sir A. Henry McMahon, 

 G.C.V.O., K.C.I.E. ; Murray Marks, Esq. ; R. W. McLachlan, Esq. ; 

 J. Grafton Milne, Esq. ; Ellis H. Minns, Esq. ; G. Morley, Esq. ; 

 E. T. Newell, Esq. ; Senor Felix F. Outes ; W. Sharp Ogden, 

 Esq. ; Professor C. Oman ; R. A. Peddie, Esq. ; Dr. Llewellyn 

 Powell Phillips; Professor Behrendt Pick; A. W. Piper, Esq. ; 

 Forbes Pyman, Esq. ; H. L. Rabino, Esq. ; H. A. Ramsden, 

 Esq. ; Monsieur Charles Roessler ; the Rev. Edgar Rogers ; 

 Edwin Rose, "Esq. ; Maurice Rosenheim, Esq. ; Horace Sandars, 

 Esq. ; Professor Boris Schutz ; Major-General Sir C. Holland 



