82 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



4. Mediaeval and Modern Series : — 



840 coins, medals and jetons, recently acquired, have been 

 registered and incorporated. 



71 coins from the Freudenthal collection have been 

 incorporated. 



The Danish medals and various other European medals and 

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

 incorporated with the general collection and new heading-cards 

 have been supplied. This cabinet has now been completely 

 cleared, and its upper portion has been refitted so as to 

 accommodate 12 cabinets from the general collection. The 

 whole of the Swiss series and the Townshend collection have 

 been transferred to this position. 



The German bracteates have been expanded and arranged, 

 and the series of the coins of Belgium has been expanded from 

 two to three cabinets. 



The Dutch and Flemish jetons have been re-arranged and 

 expanded to three cabinets, and the re-arrangement of the 

 French jetons has been begun. 



The series of Nuremberg counters has been expanded, and, 

 as far as possible, classified under types and engravers' names. 



Corrections have been made in the series of Italian medals, 

 and the plaster-casts of medals not represented in the Museum 

 have been arranged and labelled. 



The Russian medals have been re-arranged in three cabinets, 

 and 329 specimens have been supplied with explanatory tickets. 



The compilation of the manuscript indexes to Engel and 

 Serrure's Traite de Numismatique du Moyen Age has been 

 continued, and the geographical index has been completed. 

 The index of inscriptions has reached the end of the letter K. 



A series of the coins of Cyprus and Malta, a large series of 

 European coins and another of Dutch, Flemish, and French 

 jetons, have been examined, and selections from them have 

 been made. 



5. Oriental Series : — 



250 coins recently acquired, 41 from the Hamburger col- 

 lection and 61 from the Cunningham collection, have been 

 registered and incorporated. 



24] coins of China and 286 of the Far East, acquired in past 

 years, have been registered and incorporated. 



The Sassanian series has been expanded and supplied with 

 new heading-cards. 



The series of the coins of the Amawi and Abbasid Khalifs 

 has been expanded and heading-cards have been inserted giving 

 dates in the Christian as well as in the Mohammadan Era. 



431 coins of the Gupta dynasty have been weighed. 



