DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 



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Coins of the Byzantine Empire, by W. Wroth. 



The coins of Constans II. and of his successors to 

 Nicephorus II., Phocas, inclusive (641-969 A.D.), have been 

 classified,' weighed and described, the total number of 

 specimens at present catalogued for this work being 3,053. 



3. Catalogues of British Coins and Medals. 

 Handbook of the Coins of Great Britain and Ireland, by 



H. A. Grueber. A second issue of this work has been 

 published. 



3Iedallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain 

 and Ireland, by H. A. Grueber. (Atlas of plates.) 



Parts III. and IV. comprising Plates XXI.-XL. have been 

 printed and published. 



4. Catalogues of Oriental Coins. 



Indian Coins. — Andhras and Western Kshatrapas, by 

 E. J. Rapson. 



Signatures B-D (=24 pages) have been passed for press, 

 and Sig. E (= 8 pages) for revise. 



IV. — A cquisitions. 



The total number of coins and medals added to the 

 Department during the year 1905 was 1.488, of which 129 are 

 of gold, 659 of silver, 502 of bronze, and 198 of other metals. 



The following table shows the numbers of the new acqui- 

 sitions classified according to the several series to which they 

 belong : — 



Class. 



Gold. 



Silver. 



Bronze. 



Other 



Metals, 



&c. 



Total. 



Greek .... 



Roman 



British and Colonial 



Mediaeval and Modern - 



Oriental . . - - 



3 



53 



8 



4 



61 



146 



4 



79 



50 



380 



290 

 51 

 24 

 23 



114 



14 



79 

 105 



439 

 108 

 125 

 156 

 660 



Total - 



129 



659 



502 



198 



1,488 



Of the above, 507 have been presented, viz., 42 of gold, 

 148 of silver, 229 of bronze, and 88 of other metals. 



These donations are due to the generosity of the following 

 benefactors, &c. : — 



The Corporation of the City of London ; the Trustees of 

 the Hunterian Coin Catalogue Fund, University of Glasgow ; 

 the Belgian Minister of the Interior ; the Darbar of the 

 Dewas State, Central India ; the Egypt Exploration Fund ; 

 the Government of Assam ; the Bombay Branch of the Royal 



