ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



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4. Mediaval and Modem Series : — 



210 coins and medals recently acquired have been registered and incorporated, and 260 

 have been incorporated. 



Six large trays of Nuremberg and other counters have been transferred from tlie Kincr's 

 Cabinet of Medals to the Cabinet of MediEeval and Nuremberg Counters. ° 



Rectifications have been made in the series of Lorraine and'^Poland. 



Series of Danish, Hungarian, and other coins and medals offered for purchiise 

 have been examined, and selections made for the Museum. 



5. Oriental Series: — 



484 gold, silver, and copper coins and one glass weight of various Arab dynasties, of 

 Persia, and of the Muhammadan and Hindu Series of India, &c., have been regis- 

 tered, and 194 have been incorporated. ° 



95 gold, silver, and copper coins of the Parthian and South Indian series have been 

 registered, and 352 have been incorporated. 



844 coins of China and the Far East acquired by recent purchases have been placed 

 together in one cabinet preparatory to registration. 



938 tickets referring to the Catalogue of Greek and Scythic Kings of Bactria and 

 India have been written and placed under the specimens. 



A selection has been made from the duplicate Bactrlan, Oiiental, and Indian coins in 

 the British Museum in exchange for other coins offered by Major the Hon, M. G. Talbot. 

 R.E., and lists prepared. 



A selection has been made for the Calcutta Museum of Oriental Coins (Arab Series), 

 of coins of the Sah Kings, of the Gupta Kings of Surashtra, the Bhattaraka Kings and 

 the Eajput Kings from the Museum duplicates and from the India Office Collection, and 

 descriptive lists havebeen prepared of these as well as of the Indian Sanskritic selection 

 which had been previously reported. 







II. — Acquisitions, 



1887. 









Class. 



Gold 



and 



Electrum. 



Silver. 



Copper. 



Billon. 



Lead, 



White Metal, 

 Iron &c. 



Glass. 



Total. 



Greek - - - . 



8 



58 



84 



26 







176 



Roman ... 



3 



25 



2 



- 



- 



_ 



30 



Mediaeval and Modern - 



5 



90 



17 



36 



1 



- 



149 



English ... 



~ 



26 



27 



9 



2 



- 



G4 



Oriental ... 



77 



180 



212 



18 



- 



6 



493 



Total - - - 



93 



379 



342 



89 



3 



6 



912 



Remarkable Coins and Medals. 



1. Greek Series: — 



A tetradrachm of Aenus in Thrace of early style, B.C. 450-400, with an unpublished 

 symbol, a dog, on the reverse. 



An unpublished tetradrachm of Maronea in Thrace of the finest period of Art, circ. 

 B. c. 400. This coin is of light Attic weight, and bears on the obverse a very beautiful 

 head of the youthful Dionysos wearing au ivy-wreath. The reverse, instead of the usual 

 vine with four or more bunches of grapes, has a single vine branch, with one large bunch 

 of <:rapes occupying the whole field of the coin. 



A half obol of Aiiropus King of Macedon, b. c. 396-392, the first silver coin which has 

 been discovered of this king. 



A silver stater of Thebes, with a head of bearded Herakles facing on the reverse, a 

 coin of much rarity. 



A bronze coin of Corinth, with the head of M. Antonius struck under the Duumvirate 

 of P. Aebutius and C. Pinnius. 



A bronze coin of the town of Callisla as a member of the Achaean League. 



A bronze coin of Alea in Arcadia, b. c. 431-370, a town of which there was previously 

 only one small silver coin in the British Museum. 



A silver coin of Axus in Crete, and two silver coins of Gortyna in the same island, one 

 of the latter being an unpublished variety. 



0.66. F 3 A small 



