DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. QS 



3 British and Colonial Series : — 



Anglo-Saxon. — Ceolwulf II., King of Mercia (874 A.D.). 

 A rare penny, with the name of the moneyer Cuthulf, of the 

 type of B. M. Cat. PJ. ix. 16. 



Alfred the Great. Three rare pennies with hitherto 

 unpublished moneyers' names Guthere, Hereferth, and 

 Lufeman, of the type of B. M. Cat. No. V. 



English. — Henry I. Fifteen silver pennies issued between 

 the years 1128 and 1131. Ohv, Full face bust of the king ; 

 rev. a large quatrefoil enclosing a cross with a lis in each 

 angle. These coins were struck at the following mints : 

 — Bristol, Canterbury, Hereford, London, Northampton, 

 Norwich, Oxford, Southwark,Thetford,Wallingford, Warwick, 

 Winchester, and York. 



Henry VI. A halfpenny of his last issue struck in 

 London, a variety, of which only one other specimen is 

 known. Presented by the Earl of Ducie. 



4. Mediaeval and Modern Series : — 

 France. — A sixteenth century lead medal of Rene Baudart. 



Germany. — Eleven silver bracteates of the Rhine 

 Provinces, and two silver coins of Cologne and Wiirtemberg. 

 Presented by A. Felsenthal, Esq. 



A set of dies made by the famous forger Becker for 

 striking false Hungarian coins during his residence at 

 Buda-Pest. Presented by Thos. Bliss, Esq. 



Italy. — A silver coin of Hercules II., Duke of Ferrara. 

 Struck for Modena. Presented by A. Felsenthal, Esq. 



A scudo of Jean Andre I., Doria, Count of Loano, 1600 ^D, 



Presented by Mrs. Denton. 



A bronze Italian portrait medal of an ecclesiastic, by an 

 unknown Florentine medallist of the end of the fifteenth cen- 

 tury, with a tonsured bust on one side and a bust of Christ 

 on the other. The latter is copied from a slightly earlier 

 Italian medal, v/hich reproduces the type originated by the 

 Flemish painter Jau van Eyck in his profile head of Christ 

 in the Royal Picture Gallery at Berlin. 



A late fifteenth century bronze Italian or Southern French 

 medal with a bust of Christ on the obverse and that of 

 St. Paul on the reverse. 



Another fifteenth century Italian medal with the head of 

 Christ. Presented by Max Rosenheim, Esq., f.s.a. 



