90 accounts, etc., of the british >1useum. 



2. Catalogues of Roman and Byzantine Coins. 

 Roman Republican Coins, by H. A. Grueber. 



Volume II., from Sig. 3 C to the end, has been sent to press. 

 The Introduction has been written and sent to press ; and 

 Plates cxiii to cxxiii have been prepared and passed for press. 

 The Index to Volume I. has been completed in MS. and 

 progress has been made with the Index to Volume II. 



Coins of the Vandals, Ostrogoths, and Lombards, and of the 

 Empires of Nicaea, Trehizond, etc., by Warwick Wroth. 



The following series have been finally arranged and de- 

 scribed : — Ostrogothic kings and miscellaneous coins of the 

 period of the Ostrogoths ; Lombard kings ; dukes and princes 

 of Beneventum ; emperors of Thessalonica and of Nicaea. 

 A preliminary arrangement has been made of the whole coinage 

 of the Empire of Trebizond and the coins of John I. have been 

 described. Plaster casts have been prepared of coins in the 

 Vandal and Ostrogothic series. 



3. Catalogues of British Coins and Medals. 



Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and 

 Ireland, by Hawkins, Franks, and Grueber. 



The compilation of Part X. has been completed and thig 

 Part has been published. Part XI. has also been prepared 

 and published. Part XII. is in preparation. 



III. — Acquisitions. 



The total number of coins and medals added to the 

 Department during the year 1909 was 2495, of which 129 are 

 of gold, 767 of silver, 1549 of bronze, and 50 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 



Metala, 



&c. 



Total. 



Greek .... 



Roman 



British and Colonial 

 Mediaeval and Modern 

 Oriental - - - 



12 

 5 

 44 

 49 

 19 



106 

 17 

 217 

 227 

 200 



605 



395 



69 



123 



357 



32 



17 



1 



723 

 417 

 362 

 416 



577 



Total 



129 



767 



1,549 



50 



2,495 



Of the above, 1453 have been presented, viz., 43 of gold, 

 291 of silver, 1079 of bronze, and 40 of other metals. 



