S4" ACCOTTNTS, ETC., OF THE TBEITISH MUSEUM. 



Dttpartment of Coi:Frs and Medals. 



lu—RagistraUoM and Arrangement. 



1. Greek Series : — 



197 coins have been registered and incorporated. 



'Wii'Hierons re-attribirtions and-res-aiTangements have been 

 made, in accordance with recent researches and publications, 

 in the following portions of the collection : — Thrace, Macedon, 

 Megaris and Aegina, Peloponnesus, Bithynia, Mysia, Troas, 

 Aeolis, Pisidia, Cilicia, Cyrenaica, Libya, Zeugitana, Syrtica, 

 Byzacene, Numidia, Mauretania, Cossura, Gaulos, and Melita. 



The series of the Aes signatum of Central Italy has been 

 examined with the object of ascertaining, as far as possible, 

 the provenance of the various specimens as an indication of 

 their local attribution. 



About 400 casts and electrotypes of coins of various parts 

 of the Greek world, and of Cypriote coins not in the British 

 Museum, have been incorporated in the collection of casts, 

 which has been expanded by the addition of two cabinets. 



A series of sulphur casts illustrating a portion of the 

 Hunter Collection has been arranged and mounted, and a list 

 of them has been prepared, giving references to Vol. II. of 

 Macdonald's Catalogue of that collection, and a large number 

 of miscellaneous casts of Greek coins in Foreign Museums 

 have been identified and arranged. 



A cabinet of casts of coins of the Ancient Britons, 

 presented by Sir John Evans, has been arranged and labelled. 



Various collections of Greek and Sicilian coins have been 

 examined, and notes have been made of important specimens 

 contained in them, and selections, where necessary, have been 

 set aside as desirable for purchase by the Museum. Many 

 hundreds of rubbings of Greek coins from Asia Minor have 

 also been examined, and selections made of desirable 

 specimens. 



776 tickets have been written, giving references to the 

 Catalogue of the Coins of Lydia, and placed beneath the 

 coins. 



The Indexes of Types of Greek Coins from 23 published 

 volumes of the catalogue have been cut up, combined together, 

 and mounted for the purpose of facilitating reference. 



Additions have been made to the MS. Bibliography of 

 Greek Numismatics, and a Bibliography of Literature re- 

 ferring to Greek coins published in non-numismatic periodicals 

 has been begun. 



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