92 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Coins and Medals. 



I. — Exhibitions. 



A series of Medals illustrating the history of the British 

 Navy has been arranged, with labels, in two cases, as part of 

 the Nelson Centenary Exhibition in the King's Library, and 

 described in the official Guide to the Exhibition. 



The work of cleaning the Medals exhibited in the corridor 

 adjoining the Medal Room has been begun, and over 400 

 medals of the British, Italian, and German series have been 

 carefully treated. 



IT. — Registration and Arrangement. 

 1. Greek Series : — 



442 coins, recently acquired, have been registered and 

 incorporated. 



36 coins, hitherto regarded as uncertain, have been 

 identified and incorporated. 



3 tetradrachms, hitherto given to Cyrene, have been 

 transferred to Scione in Chalcidice. 



86 electrum coins, discovered in the course of the British 

 Museum excavations at Ephesus, and submitted to the Keeper 

 of Coins, have been minutely examined, weighed and described. 



Several collections off'ered for purchase or donation have 

 been examined, and, where desirable, selections have been 

 made. Among these were numerous lots of miscellaneous 

 Greek coins ; a large series of rubbings of coins chiefly 

 of Thrace and Moesia ; a series of Corcyra ; 3 selections 

 of coins of Greece and Asia Minor; 2 series of coins of 

 Phoenicia; and a dealer's stock of coins of Kings of Macedon 

 from Philip 11. to Perseus. 



The series of electrotypes and casts of coins not in the 

 Museum has been expanded by the insertion of two cabinets, 

 and a large series of electrotypes of coins in other collections 

 and a collection of casts illustrating the Hunter Collection at 

 Glasgow have been incorporated. 



The work of writing tickets giving references to the 

 published catalogues has proceeded ; 885 have been written 

 for Lydia and 50 for Parthia, and placed beneath the coins 

 to which they refer. 



The indexes of Types in the Catalogues of the Grseco- 

 Scythic Kings and of Parthia have been cut up and incor- 

 porated in the combined index of Types of Greek Coins. 



Additions have been made to the Manuscript Bibliography 

 of Greek Numismatics. 



