104 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Coins and Medals. 

 I. — Registration and Arrangement. 



1. Greek Series : — 



Eight hundred and one coins of various parts of the 

 Greek world, recently acquired, have been registered and 809 

 incorporated, while 60 coins previously set aside as duplicates 

 have been re-incorporated. 



The early electrum coinage of Asia Minor, the smallest 

 denominations of Athens, and the series of the " Tresor 

 d'Auriol" class have been transferred into trays protected 

 with glass lids. The satrapal coinage of Babylon has been 

 re-arranged according to Imhoof-Blumer's classification, and alt 

 the gold and silver issues in the name of Alexander the Great 

 have been re-arranged under symbols and monograms in 

 alphabetical order, the gold being transferred to a more 

 convenient cabinet. The Bactrian series has been re-arranged 

 under monograms instead of denominations as formerly, the 

 Ptolemaic according to the classification in Svoronos' work 

 l>loiui(TiJiaTa tCov nroXf/ua/wi;, to which a reference number has 

 been placed under each coin. Thick heading-caids have been 

 written for the Ptolemaic, Syracusan, Seleucid, Pamphylian 

 and Pisidian series and a concordance of the coins described in 

 the Catalogue under Elis and Sicyon has been drawn up to 

 indicate their present position in the trays. The Mysian yeries 

 as far as Cisthene has also been examined and references to the 

 Berlin Corpus inserted. In the Cyrenaic series casts and 

 electrotypes of coins not in the British Museum have been 

 temporarily incorporated in the collection for the purposes of 

 study and the whole has been expanded into two cabinets. 



Two hundred and ninety-six casts have been incorporated 

 in the collection of casts of coins not in the British Museum. 



The following collections have been examined and a 

 selection niade for purchase (a) Four dealers' stocks of Cyrenaic 

 coins, {h) three collections submitted by Levantine dealers, 

 (c) various Sale Catalogues British and Continental. 



The MS. Bibliography of Numismatics has been brought up 

 to date, and the Card Index of Coins arranged according to 

 types has so grown as to necessitate expansion into another 

 cabinet. An index of the city names in the genitive case on 

 Greek coins, arranged according to terminals to assist in 

 identification, has been completed, to which a supplement of 

 Doric genitives has been added. 



Considerable selections of casts have been made for foreign 

 scholars. 



2. Roman and Byzantine Series : — 



Two hundred and ninety-six coins, Republican and Imperial, 

 have been registered and 298 incorporated. 



