26 ACCOUNTS, &;C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department op Coins and Medals. 



I. — Arrangement. 



1. Greek Series : — 



176 Greek coins, acquired during the year 1872, have been registered and incorpo- 

 rated. 



164 coins of Greece, Bactria, and Persia, from the Woodhouse Collection, have been 

 registered and incorporated. 



11 pieces of Aes grave from the same collection have been registered. 



244 Greek coins, from the Wigan Collection, have been registered. 



22 Perso- Phoenician coins, acquired during 1868, have been incorporated. 



132 Phoenician and Carthaginian coins, from the Judas Collection, have been incorpo- 

 rated, of which 115 have been registered. 



1043 duplicates have been selected from the series of Italy and Sicily and removed to a 

 separate cabinet. 



The coins of Persia and the Persian Satraps have been arranged in a separate cabinet, 

 with new heading cards. 



The Im2:)erial Series of Dacia and Moesia have been arranged, and 92 heading cards 

 written. 



The important and interesting forgeries of Greek coins have been arranged in a series 

 to the number of 187. 



There has also been formed a series of electrotypes of some of the most important coina 

 in the Greek series, in order that the original coins may not be cast again. 



934 cards have been placed under the coins of Italy giving references to the printed 

 catalogue. 



32 half-sheets, or 256 pages, of the Catalogue of Greek Coins, Vol.1. (Italy), have been 

 finally printed. 



An index has been completed up to the end of Calabria, p. 224 of the same catalogue. 



307 coins of Syracuse, 645 of other Sicilian cities, and 53 Siculo-Punic coins have been 

 catalogued for Vol. II. (Sicily) of the same catalogue. 



2. Roman Series: — 



The series of the Roman Consular and Imperial gold coins has been re-arranged, and 

 new heading cards, with the dates of the issue of each coinage, have been added. 



A complete index by families has been made to the Koman Consular series, which is 

 arranged chronologically according to Mommsen's system. 



95 Roman and Byzantine coins, from the Woodhouse Collection, have been registered 

 and incorporated. 



63 Roman medallions, from the Wigan Collection, have been registered and incorpo- 

 rated, and 



1 10 large brass, from the same collection, have been registered. 



19 miscellaneous Roman coins and 10 coin moulds in clay, recently acquired, have 

 been registered and incorporated. 



3. Mediaval and Modern Series : — 



457 Mediaeval and modern coins, acquired during the year 1872, have been registered 

 and incorporated. 



303 French jetons, from the Freudenthal Collection, have been registered. 



The gold coins in six cabinets have been counted, references have been added upon 

 their cards to the works in which they are published, and labels have been affixed to the 

 doors stating the number of gold coins contained in each cabinet. 



471 miscellaneous duplicates have been arranged in a separate cabinet, and a list of 

 them has been made. 



4. English Series : — 



135 English and Colonial coins and medals, acquired during the year 1872, have been 

 registered and incorporated. 



249 Groats from the Stamford find have been registered and incorporated. 



843 English tokens, from the Freudenthal Collection, have been registered and in- 

 corporated. 



137 Colonial tokens, from the same collection, have been registered and incorporated. 



3,202 tradesmen's and public-house tickets, from the same collection, have been 

 registered. 



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