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19 Portuguese coins of Maria I, Peter III, John VI, Maria II, Peter V and Lewis, 

 struck at Goa. 



A gold Osella of Alolslo Mocenigo III, Doge of Venice, dated 1725. 



A bronze medal of Francesco d'Este, Marquis of Massa, 1516-1578, a fine example of 

 Cinquecento medal work. 



A lead medal of Ercole, Duke of Ferrara and Modena, by Sperandio. Presented by 

 H. T. Conington, F.scj. 



A bronze Italian 16tli century medal of Florins Maresias of Bellano, probably by the 

 artist Valerio Belli. 



A bronze Italian IGth century medal of an unknown personage, with the legend 

 Dl. LAIL. BEL. VISO. E. QVL IL. TVO. SEEVO. MIRA. 



Three silver 16th and early 17th century German medals of Heinrich Bobenhausen, 

 Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, ob. 1575 ; of Wolfgang Paler of Augsburg, ob. 

 1582 ; and of Sigismund Gammersfelder and his wife, dated 1601 : all fine specimens, and 

 of great importance in the history of the medallic art. 



5. Oriental Series : — 



A " Medjidieh, " or dollar, struck by the late INTahdi and issued at Khartoum. Presented 

 by Colonel IJ. H. Kitchener, C.B. 



A fis!;-hook silver coin fovmd in Arabia. Presented bij Colonel Miles. 



A dinar of the Aghlabite ruler ZIyadet Allah I, A. H. 219. 



A dinar of the Alawee Governor of Tabaristau, El Hasan Ibn El-Kasim, struck at 

 Amol. A.H. 308. 



A gold coin of Mohammad Ibn Sam of Dehli. 



Nineteen gold coins of the Bahree Memlooks, viz.: En-Nasir Muhammad ibn Kalaoon, 

 En-Kasir Nasir-ed-Deen Hasan, El-Mansoor Salah-ed-Deen Muhammad, El-Ashraf 

 Shaaban, and El-Mansoor Alee struck at Cairo, Alexandria, and Damascus, from the 

 Broach Find. This find Is very Interesting as showing the gold currency of the period 

 and the activity of tbe Memlook Kings of Egypt in the 14th century. 



A silver coin of El Adil-Zeyn-ed Deen Ketboogha, struck at Cairo, a.h. 694. 



A copper coin of the Berid Shahi Dynasty of Badir, the only coin yet discovered of 

 this family. 



One gold and thirty-five silver local Panjab coins struck at Patiala, Jind, Maler Kotla, 

 jVabha, Kaithal, Nabha Bhaipur, Nabha Bhagwan, and Nabha Hira. A very important 

 contribution to the difficult class of Sikh money. Presented by Captain R. C. 2\mple. 



Three Indian gold coins, two struck by Skanda Gupta, the third a unique coin of an 

 undetermined King of the Gupta age. Presented by J. H. Rivett-Carnac, Esq. 



A Sassanlan double dinar of Varahran I. 



Dinars of Jelal-ud-Deen, Alee-ben Sam, and Beha-ud-Deen Sdm of the Ghoree 

 dynasty. 



A dinar of Abd-el-Mumin, of the line of Jan (Astrakhan). 



Silver coins of the House of Timur struck by TImur himself and his successor 

 Baisangar. 



A Collection of 209 gold, silver, and copper Japanese coins and medals, comprising two 

 large Obang pieces now of much rarity, four rare round gold coins of the 17th century, 

 and 79 large laronze medals, showing a number of specialforms and types not previously 

 represented in the British Museum. 



HI. — Catalogues. 



1 . Greek Series : — • 



The Catalogue of the coins of Thessaly — Aetolla, by Prof. Percy Gardner, has been 

 re-prlnted. 



The Catalogue of the coins of Peloponnesus (excluding Corinth), by Prof. Percy 

 Gardner, has been published. 



The Catalogue of the coins of Attica— Megarls — Aegina, by Barclay V. Head, D.C.L., 

 Ph. D. has been published. 



2. English Series : — 



The Catalogue of English Coins, Vol. I., comprising the whole of the early Anglo- 

 Saxon Coinage, except that of Wessex, by C. F. Keary, m.a. f.s.a. has been published. 



3. Oriental Series : — 



The Catalogue of the coins of the Shahs of Persia, by Reginald Stuart Poole, L.L.D. 

 has been published. 



The number of Visitors to the Medal Room during 1887, was 1,952. 



The number of Visitors to the Gold Ornament Room during 1887 was 11,719. 



Reginald Stuart Poole. 

 Edward A. Bond, 



Principal Librarian, 



British Museum, 31 May 1888. 



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