DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 7T 



polished and repaired to contain these portions of the 

 collection. 



The following collections have been examined, and, where 

 desirable, selections have been made for the Museum : — Two 

 series of miscellaneous Greek coins ; one of bronze coins, the 

 yield of the excavations in Cyprus under the Turner bequest; 

 three of coins brought respectively from Lycia by Mr. G. A. 

 Davies, from Lydia and Troas by Dr. Buresch, and from 

 Mesopotamia by Mr. V. W. Yorke ; and nine series of coins of 

 various parts of Asia Minor and Syria. 



Selections of coins have been made to illustrate portions of 

 the following works : — (i.) The Berlin Corpus Numoruim ; 

 (ii.) the English edition of Furtwangler's Meisteriuerke der 

 griechischen Plastik ; (iii.) Frazer's edition of Fausanias. 



In preparation for the Catalogue of Greek Coins, the work 

 of re-arranging the various series in chronological order, and of 

 weighing the specimens in gold and silver, has proceeded as 

 follows : — 



For the Catalogue of Caria, &c. : — The coins of the dynasts 

 of Caria, and the coins of the Islands Astypalaea, Calymna, 

 Carpathos, Cos, and Rhodes. 



For the Catalogue of Lycia, &c. : — The coins of Lycia. 



For the Catalogue of Galatia, &c. : — The coins of the 

 Kings of Galatia, of the Koivov of Galatia, and of Ancyra, and 

 Pessinus. 



In preparation for the illustration of the Catalogue of Caria^ 

 (foe, casts of all the more important coins have been made. 



2. Roman Series : — 



1 coin, recently acquired, has been registered and incor- 

 porated. 



A series of 253 Republican and Imperial Denarii, found at 

 Silchester, has been examined, and 39 specimens have been 

 selected for the Museum. A detailed description of the whole 

 has been drawn up for publication in the Archaeologia. 



A series of Imperial aurei has been examined, and a selec- 

 tion made for the Museum. 



3. English Series : — 



253 Coins, medals, and counters, recently acquired, have 

 been registered, and 308 incorporated. 



68 Admission Tickets, from the Freudenthal Collection, have 

 been incorporated. 



89 Tickets giving references to the Catalogue of English 

 Coins, Vol. II., have been written and placed in the trays 

 beneath the specimens. 



The collection of metallic Admission Tickets to Theatres and 

 other places of public amusement (London and Provincial) has 

 been arranged in a separate cabinet, and several specimens,, 

 hitherto unclassed, have been identified. 



0.97. A selectioit 



