DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 85 



Department of Coins and Medals. 



I. — Exhibitions. 



The medals exhibited in the corridor have been carefully 

 cleaned. 



II. — Registration and Arrangement. 



1. Greek Series : — 



288 coins from the Parkes Weber collection and 381 

 recently acquired have been registered and incorporated. 



3,256 tickets giving references to the published Catalogues 

 Parthia, Phrygia, and Cyprus have been written and placed 

 in the trays beneath the coins. 



12 " Uncertain " coins have been identified. 



Rectifications have been made in the Sicilian series, and 

 the series of Etruria and Olbia have been re-arranged and 

 expanded. 



The Leopold Hamburger collection of Phoenician and 

 Palestinian coins (about 2,700 specimens) has been examined 

 in detail. A series of Lycian coins, another of Seleucid 

 coins, and five collections chiefly of Palestinian coins have 

 been examined, and selections have been made where 

 desirable. 



2. Roman and Byzantine Series : — 



204 coins from the Parkes Weber collection and 179 

 recently acquired have been registered and incorporated. 



The whole series of Roman medallions has been weighed 

 and the weight noted on a ticket beneath each specimen. 



The collection of Becker's forgeries and other spurious 

 Roman coins, including the Italian imitations of the sixteenth 

 century, has been entirely re-arranged in two cabinets, with 

 cards and labels. 



A hoard of Roman silver coins found at Icklingham in 

 Suff'olk has been examined and a selection made for the 

 Museum. The Weybridge hoard of bronze coins (Diocletian, 

 etc.) has also been examined. Numerous coins from the 

 recent excavations at Corbridge have been examined and 

 identified. 



3. British and Colonial Series : — 



436 coins and medals from the Parkes Weber collection, 

 and 63 from recent acquisitions have been registered and 

 incorporated. 



258 eighteenth-century tokens of Scotland from the 

 Freudenthal collection have been incorporated, and the 

 general collection of Scottish tokens has been re-arranged. 



