DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 117 



Gold and silver medals and a silver armorial jefcon com- 

 anemorating the betrothal of Prince Ernest Augustus of 

 Brunswick-Liineburg with Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia. 

 Presented hy H.R.H. the Duke of Cumberland. 

 Bronze medal commemorating the Eighteenth Inter- 

 parliamentry Conference at The Hague. 



Presented hy the Committee of the Congress. 



Specimens in gold, silver, and bronze of the medal of the 

 Centenary of the Independence of the Netherlands. 



Presented by J. C. J. Drucker, Esq. 



A bronze portrait-medal of Viscount Dillon, by S. W. Car- 

 line. 



Presented by the Trustees of the National 

 Portrait Gallery. 

 o. Oriental Series : — 

 A series of 289 silver Sassanian coins ; with the exception 

 of an unpublished tetradrachm of Bahram II. with portraits of 

 himself, his queen and his son afterwards Bahram III., and two 

 fine drachms of Sapor TL, these are drachms of the later 

 Emperors Kobad, Khusru I., Hoimazd IV. and Khusru II., 

 chosen for mints and dates unrepresented in the Museum 

 collection ; the condition of these coins is remarkably fine, and 

 they fill many gaps in the Museum collection. 



A very rare copper coin of the Sassanian emperor Khusru II. 

 Presented by Major W.N. Hay. 



Two dirhems of the Abbasid Caliph al Mansur (712-775 A.D.) 

 of Baghdad 152 a.h. and Basra 153 a.k. 



Presented by H. L. Rabino, Esq. 

 A dirhem of the Abbasid Caliph al Mutazz (866-869 A.D.) 

 of Sarra min rai 251 A.H. 



Presented by W. R. Hubbard, Esq. 



A i-are dinar of the Hafsid Sherif of Morocco, Abu Ishak 

 Ibrahim II., 1350-1368 A.D. 



A copper coin of the Bulghars of the Danube, Xth century. 

 Presented by Evelyn Grant Duff, Esq., C.M.G. 



A silver coin of Timur (Tamerlane) and his nominal 

 suzerain the Chaghatai Khan Mahmud (1389-1398 A.D.) struck 

 at Yezd. Presented by W. R. Hubbard, Esq. 



Nineteen copper autonomous coins of Persia of the mints 

 Iran, Ja'afarabad, Kazwin, Lahijan, Resht, Tabaristan and 

 Teheran. Presented by H. L. Rabino, Esq. 



Eight gold, 4 silver and 3 copper coins of the Sultans of 

 Turkey Mahmud II., Abd al-Majid and Abd al-Aziz. 



Bequeathed by Caroline Lady Ramsay. 



A series of coins of the sultanates of South Arabia, including 

 2 silver and 2 copper coins of Makalla, and copper coins of Oman, 

 Tarim and Lahej. 



A rupee of Ahmad Shah Durrani of Dera, year 9. 



Presented by S. E. Pears, Esq., PCS. 



