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2. Rojuan Series : — 



Six coins recently acquired have been registered and incorporated. 



Becker's forgeries of Roman coins have been incorporated in the new cabinet of 

 forgeries. 



A collection of coins of the Roman, Byzantine, and other series belonging to the 

 Baroness Burdett-Coutts has been examined. 



3. English Series : — 



74 coins, medals, and tokens have been registered and incorporated. 



The coins of Alfred, Eadmund, Eadred, Eadwig, Eadgar, Eadward II., Aethelred II., 

 Cnut, Harold I., and Edward the Confessor, have been arranged, and 984 of the specimens 

 have been weighed, in pi-eparation for the Cataloc/ue of Engiish Coins {Saxon Scries), 

 Vol. II. New heading-cards have been written in several of the Saxon series. 



The coins of Ireland, and the Irish tokens of the 18th century, have been re-arranged 

 in three new cabinets, which have been placed at the end of the British series. Outside 

 labels and heading-cards, where necessary, have been written. 



The British Colonial series, hitherto contained in two cabinets, has been expanded so as 

 to fill four cabinets ; the colonial coins of Europe and America now occupying Cabinet I. 

 and II., and those of Asia, Cabinets III. and IV. Space has thus been gained for future 

 incorporation, and for any re-arrangement that may be necessary. Outside labels and 

 heading cards have been written. 



50 tickets, giving references to the Catalogue of English Coins Vol. I., have been 

 written and placed in the trays beneath the specimens. 



A selection of medals and badges relating to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada was 

 made for the Armada Exhibition in the King's Library. The specimens have since been 

 replaced in the cases in the North Gallery. 



4. Mediaval and Modern Series : — 



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



Three coins of the United States, from the Bank Collection, have been incorporated. 



Three coins hitherto classed as Uncertain have been identified and inserted in their 

 places. 



Rectifications have been made in the Episcopal series of Metz, and in the Merovingian 

 Series, in accordance with a paper recently published in the Revue Numismatigue, by 

 M. Prou. 



A list of rare medals of Louis XIV., compiled by Mr. Carl Pieper, of Berlin, has been 

 compared with the specimens in the British Museum Collection. 



A series of early Danish coins, a collection of Papal medals, and other mediaeval and 

 modern series, have been examined. 



5. Oriental Series: — 



130 gold, silver, and copper coins of various Arab dynasties, of Persia, and of the 

 Muhammadan Series of India, have been registered, and 110 have been incorporated. 



110 gold, silver, and copper coins of the Hindu series of India have been registered, 

 and 73 have been incorporated. 



426 tickets giving references to the ( 'atalogue of Greek and Scythic Kings of Bactria 

 and India have been written and placed under the specimens. 



The coins of Shah 'Alem, struck at the local mints, in the India Office Collection, have 

 been arranged according to their districts. 



The coins of the Gupta and Pala dynasties have been re-arranged, and fresh heading 

 cards have been written. 



The coins of the Kulachuri Princes of Chedi, of the Pallavas and of the Kadambas, 

 • have been separately classed ; hitherto they have been attributed to the Pala dynasty. 



The coins of Nepal have been partially re-arranged. 



Rectifications have been made in the arrangement of the following series : Bactria, 

 Malawa, Taxila, the Kunindas, the Yaudheyas, the Kurambar Coast, the Sah Kings, the 

 Choias, and the Andhra and Pandyan coins. 



Collections Examined. — A series of gold and silver coins of Delhi, Bengal, and Shahs 

 of Persia. A series of Gupta coins brought from India by Dr. J. Burgess, Director of 

 the Archaeological Survey in India. The examination of the Hindu coins in the collec- 

 tion of the late Sir Edmund Clive Bayley has been commenced. 



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