ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 37 



Department of Coins and Medals. 



I. — Registration and Arrangement. 

 1. Greek Series: — 



207 coins from amon?; those purchased at tlie Whittall sale have been registered, and 

 22 have been incorporated in the general collection. 



71 coins recently acquired from other sources have been registered, and 30 have been 

 incorporated. 



The coins of Corinth and the Corinthian Colonies have been weighed and finally 

 arranged in preparation for cataloguing. 



569 tickets have been written for the coins described in the Catalogue of Coins of the 

 Ptolemies, and 604 for Coins in the Catalogue of Central Greece, with references to the 

 respective catalogues. Each ticket has been placed under the coin to which it belongs. 



Lists have been dravrn up cf all known coins of Zacvnthus, and of all published 

 Im])erial coins of the districts of Messenia, Laconia, Elis, Achaia, and Arcadia. 



Several collections of coins sent from abroad and offered for presentation or purchase 

 have been examined, and selections miide. Among these are a collection of coins of 

 Thessaly ; one of the _ZEgean Islands, made at Athens, and one of tlie coins of 

 Alexander the Great. 



IMany hundreds of coins found on the site of Naucratis and offered for selection by the 

 Egypt Explorati(m Fund have been cleaned and arranged. 



2. Mornan Series : — 



The following collections have been examined aud selections made for the i\] useum : — - 

 A hoard of billon and copper coins principally of the time of Tetricus and Victorinus, 

 found near VVinchcombe in Gloucestershire ; a simihir hoard principally of the time vf 

 Gallienus and Claudius Gothicus, discovered between Bawtry and Everton in Notting- 

 hamshire ; a series of copper coins of Constantine the Great and his successors. 



3. English Serifs : — 



94 coins, tokens, and tickets, and 23 medals have been registered, and 54 coins, tokens, 

 and tickets, and 23 medals have been incorporated. 



Seven coins and medals selected from the India Office Collection have been registered 

 and incorporated. 



Rectifications have been made in the following series, in accordance with recent publi- 

 cations : — The coins of Stephen; the gold coinage of Henr}' VII., Henry VIII., Edward 

 VI., and Elizabeth ; the copper coinage from Charles II., to George III. ; the coinage of 

 the Isle of Man. 



The re-arrangement in one continuous series of the English gold, silver, and copper 

 coins (James I. — Victoria^, formerly kept in separate cabinets, has been continued from 

 the reign of William III. to the present time and concluded. Numerous fresh heading- 

 cards and labels have been written for this series. 



The Scottish coinage has been re-arranged upon the same principle, and heading-cards 

 and labels have been written. 



1,183 of the Anglo-Saxon coins have been weighed and their weights entered upon the 

 registration cards placed beneath them. 



456 coins have been selected to illustrate the first volume of the Catalogue of English 

 Coins ; casts of them have been made and arranged in 30 plates for photographing. 



The following finds of coins sent by H. M. Treasury to the British Museum have been 

 examined : — 



Horncastlc Find of coins of James I. aud Charles I. ; a selection from it has been made 

 for the National Collection. Beaumont Find, Cumberland, consisting of 2,000 pennies of 

 Edward I., II., III. (England), Alexander III., David II. (Scotland), and of some foreign 

 sterlings; a complete table of this Find, showing the reigns, localities, &c. in which they 

 were struck, has been drawn up, and selections have been made to complete the British 

 Museum Collection. Long Crendon Find, Ducks, of 1,450 gold and silver coins ranging 

 from Henry VIII. to the Commonwealth ; a list of these has been drawn up, and 

 a selection has been made from them. Stockland Find, Devon, a small hoard of short-cross 

 pennies of Henry II., ik.c. 



4. Medieval and Modern Series : — 



1 14 coins and medals recently acquired have been registered and incorporated ; these are 

 of the following countries .-—France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Denmark, 

 Cyprus, Armenia, Sandwich Islands, America. 



Eight coins (French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Swedish) have been selected from 

 the India Office Collection. 



The C'arlovingian coins of France have been expanded, and numerous fresh heading-cards 

 have been written. 



0.102. F^ Kectificatious 



