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



Department of Coins and Medals. 



I. — Registration and Arrangement. 

 1. Greek Series: — 



142 coins recently acquired, belonging to various parts of the Greek world, have been 

 registered and 161 incorporated. 



141 coins purchased at the Whittall sale have been registered and 347 incorporated. 



403 tickets have been written for coins of Central Greece containing references to the 

 Catalogue of Greek Coins, Central Greece. 



The coins struck for the Colonies of Corinth have been re-arranged with a view to cata- 

 loguing. 



The coins of the cities and kings of Bosporus have been re-arranged for cataloguing. 



Lists have been drawn up for reference including all known copper coins of Athens and 

 imperial coins of Phocis and Bceotia. 



A number of re-arrangements have been made in various parts of the Greek series in 

 accordance with information contained in Dr. Imhoof-Blumer's recent Monnaies 

 Grecqiies. 



The following collections of coins have been examined : (I) a large find of Ptolemaic 

 coins from Tanis ; (2) a number of coins brought from Egypt by Rev. G. J. Chester; (3) 

 a collection brought from the Holy Land by K,ev. Canon Liddon : (4) the very extensive 

 series of coins of Alexander the Great belonging to Subhi Pasha. In the cases of (2) 

 and (4) selections have been made for the British Museum. 



The series of coins of Peloponnesus in the Bibliotheque Rationale at Paris has been 

 examined, and casts of 45 important specimens procured for study in the British Museum. 



2. Roman Series : — 



One gold coin and 15 copper coins have been registered and incorporated. One copper 

 coin has been registered. 



3. EnglisJi Series : — 



95 coins, medals, tokens and tickets have been registered and incorporated. 



141 English medals from the Bank of England Collection have been registered and 

 161 have been incorporated. 



The patterns and proofs of George III., have been re-arranged and transferred to the 

 new cabinets of English patterns. 



Rectifications have been made in the series of English Seventeenth Centui-y Tokens. 



Corrections have been made in the manuscript List of English Personal Medals from 

 1760 onwards; and descriptions of specimens acquired by the British Museum since 1879, 

 when the List was drawn up, have been added. 



Tickets giving references to the " Medallic Illustrations of British History '' have been 

 placed beneath the specimens in trays 3, 4, 5 and 6 of Cabinet I of the English Medal 

 Series. 



265 coins of East A nglia and Northumbria, and select specimens of the Pennies of 

 Edward I. have been weighed. 



A series of Anglo-Saxon coins chiefly of Aethelred II. and Cnut, and a collection of 

 English Seventeenth Century Tokens, both belonging to Mr. John Evans, P.S.A., and 

 offered by him for presentation to the Museum, have been examined and selections have 

 been made. 



A large series of English Tokens of the 18th and 19th centuries has been exa- 

 mined. 



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

 been examined: — 



The Park Street Find, St. Albans ; 221 gold coins from Henry VI. to Henry VIII. 



T/ie Isleworth Find; 33 pennies of Aethelred II., and numerous fragments. 



The Flamstead Find; 102 gold and 476 silver coins from Charles II. to George II., 

 and one gold coin of John V. of Portugal. 



The Brand End Farm Find, Lincolnshire ; 291 silver coins of Edward VI., Elizabeth, 

 James I. and Charles I. 



4. Mediaval and Modern Series : — ' 



41 coins and medals recently acquired have been registered and incorporated. 



215 "Abbey " and Nuremberg counters from the Freudenthal Collection have been 

 incorporated. 



19 modern coins have been selected for the British Museum from the India Office 

 Collection. 



The re- arrangement of the series of " Abbey " and Nuremberg counters and their 

 removal to a more suitable cabinet has been begun. 



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