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The following is a list of benefactors to the Department 

 of Coins during the past year : — 



The Royal Asiatic Society ; the Royal Geographical Society : 

 the Deputy Master of the Mint ; His Worship the Mayor of 

 Newcastle, N.S.W. ; the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic 

 Society; the Government of the United Provinces, India; the 

 Director of Agriculture, Central Provinces, India ; les Directeurs 

 de la Fondation Teyler a Harlem ; the German Section for 

 Arbitration of the Inter-Parliamentary Union ; the Rector of 

 the University of Oviedo ; the Hudson-Fulton Celebration 

 Committee, New York ; E. R. Adams, Esq. ; T. T. Barton, Esq. ; 



E. Neil Baynes, Esq. ; M. le Senateur Luca Beltrami ; F. Bowcher, 

 Esq. ; Messrs. Burroughs, Wellcome and Co. ; H. Chapman, Esq. ; 

 Dr. H.J. de Dompierre de Chauf epie ; E. G. S. Churchil], Esq. ; 

 O. Codrington, Esq., M.D. ; Signor G. Dattari ; Miss L. Ecken- 

 stein ; Oscar Eckenstein, Esq. ; A. J. Evans, Esq., f.r.s. ; 



F. Fawcett, Esq. ; Mrs. J. Francis ; M. Gambia, Esq. ; H. T. 

 Orogan, Esq. ; H. A. Grueber, Esq., f.s.a. ; Mrs. H. A. Grueber ; 

 B. J. E. Hanson, Esq., Hon. Sec. of Earl Roberts's Imperial 

 Trophy Competition ; F. W. Hasluck, Esq. ; P. Hemingway, 

 Esq., I.c.s. ; Sir Henry H. Howorth, K.C.I. E. ; George P. Knapp, 

 Esq. ; Taw Sein Ko, Esq. ; L. A. Lawrence, Esq. ; R. H. Legge, 

 Esq. ; Captain D. L. Lorimer ; Rev. W. P. Macdonald ; W. Minet, 

 Esq. ; J. P. Moquette, Esq. ; H. B. Morse, Esq. ; M. George 

 Morviano ; Miss E. Napier ; C. Okker, Esq. ; S. Oppenheimer, 

 Esq. ; Senor Don G. J. de Osma ; S. E. Pears, Esq., i.c.S. ; 

 J. ff. Baker-Penoyre, Esq. ; R. G. L. Phelps, Esq. ; M. R. Pryor, 

 Esq. ; H. L. Rabino, Esq. ; A. P. Ready, Esq. ; Miss E. C. 

 Cramer Roberts ; Max Rosenheim, Esq., f.s.a. ; H. Samuel, 

 Esq. ; Rev. Canon Stenning ; R. Sutclitfe, Esq. ; H. Symonds, 

 Esq. ; H. H. Thompson, Esq. ; R. Campbell Thompson, Esq. , 

 Miss G. B. Gibson Thomson ; Mrs. M. E. Thornton ; W. Turner; 

 Esq. ; W. H. Valentine, Esq. ; M. P. Vlasto, Esq. ; A. J. B, 

 Wace, Esq.; P. B. Warburton, Esq. ; P. H. Webb, Esq. ; Sir H. 

 Weber, m.d. ; Lieut. A. T. Wilson; A. M. Woodward, Esq.; 

 Dr. H. Woodward, f.r.s. ; Col. L, Worthington-Wilmer ; 

 M. B. M. Yakountchikov. 



IV. — Remarkable Coins and Medals. 

 1. Greek Series : — 

 {a) Europe : — 

 Italy. — Lucania. — Thurium — A rare bronze coin ; obv. 

 Head of Zeusr.; rev. ©OYPIHN Eagle standing L on thunder- 

 bolt. (Garrucci, PI. cvii. 3). 



Presented by Sir H. Weber, m.d. 

 Calabria. — Tarentum. — A rare drachm (55*6 grs.), with 

 the magistrate's name <l>IAIAPXOZ. 



Presented by M. P. Vlasto, Esq. 

 Sicily. — Agrigentum. — An apparently unpublished bronze 

 coin of the 5th century B.C. ; obv. Eagle's head r. ; rev. Crab's 

 claw; inscr. [A K PA] TAN retrograde. 



