80 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Coins and Medals. 



T. — Registration and Arrangement. 



1. Greek Series : — 



2,616 coins from the Hamburger collection, and 233 recently 

 acquired from various sources have been registered and 

 incorporated. 



Four " Uncertain " coins have been identified. 



The series of Spanish coins has been rearranged, and 

 expanded to two cabinets. 



The Jewish series (regal and non-regal), and the series of 

 Decapolis, Galilaea, Samaria, Nabathaea and Arabia have been 

 rearranged and expanded, with the addition of new heading- 

 cards where necessary. 



New outside labels have been placed on most of the cabinets 

 containing Greek coins. 



119 Greek coins and 86 forgeries, hitherto kept in the 

 King's cabinet, have been incorporated with the general 

 collection. 



The MS. bibliography of numismatics has been continued 

 and brought up to date. 



Impressions of numerous coins of Athens, the Tauric 

 Chersonese, Pontus, and Bosporus have been prepared and sent 

 to the editors of the Berlin Corpus of Greek Coins. 



11 series of miscellaneous Greek coins, and a large collection 

 of Spanish coins, have been examined, and selections from them 

 have been made for the Museum. 



2. Roman and Byzantine Series : — 



189 coins recently acquired have been registered and 

 incorporated. 



129 coins transferred from the Department of Greek and 

 Eoman Antiquities have been incorporated. 



Numerous Roman coins, and forgeries of Roman coins, 

 hitherto kept apart in the King's cabinet, have been 

 incorporated with the general collection. 



The series of Roman bronze coins has been expanded from 

 8 to 10 cabinets. 



The impressions in white metal (108 in number) from the 

 dies made by Cavino of Padua have been arranged and placed 

 at the end of the series of Roman forgeries. 



2,399 tickets referring to the Catalogue of Imperial Byzantine 

 Coins have been written and placed beneath the specimens. 



