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hens. They are more commonly domefticated in thofe 
Sade that border on the Mediterranean than with 
common co, but, as is ufual, it feems bens of 
reproduction 
Mitrata; the Mitred Pintado. 
double; the gular fold is longitudinal. 
gafcar and Guinea ; and is the fize of the] 
CristaTA; the Crefted Pintado. This fas no caruncle ; 
on each fide the gape is a longitudinal fold. This is a 
native of Afric 
fEGYPT bean “the Egyptian Pintado. This is black, 
{potted with blueifh; the crown is crefted; head and neck 
rufous. 
NUMISMATOGRAPHIA, a Greek term ufed for 
the defcription of ancient medals and coins, whether of gold, 
filver, or brafe. 
Caruncles at the gape 
. inhabits Mada- 
Fulvius Urfinus, Ant. Auguftinus, bifhop of Saragoffa, - 
Erizzo, a noble Venetian, and Sa mbucus, a Polith gentle- 
orel, Vaillant, Joubert, Baudelot, Beger, and, 
among ourfelves, Evelyn. 
NUMISMATOLOGY, Nomismartics, terms ufed for 
d Mepa 
the fcience which treats on Corns an LS, to whic 
place account of a fe 
public collettions, ii touched upon in the above articles. 
lunterian collection, which is now in the poffeffion of 
the univerfity of Glafgow, to which it was bequeathed by 
un ill, is one of the ed in Europe. 
a Lees year added much to ye {toc 
that of Ifaac Jamineau, his majefty’s conful 
ap Ne aple es. Mr. Sainthill, furgeon, in 1772, the prince of 
eralta, and Mr. Weft in 1773, continued to enrich Dr. 
Hunter’s cabinet. In 1776, Egyptian coins were 
much increafed from the ineétions of Mr. J. Bruce, and 
Mr. C. Lindegreene, a Swede, who had refided in Egypt. 
Mr. Dorana added his colleé&tion to Dr. Hunter’s in the 
mae year, and it contained the accumulated treafures of 
At the fame 
ae Mr. White {upplied, from his ‘mufeum, thofe coins 
which were wantin Dr. Hunter’s; and, as if this year 
was to be aieaguithed by the value of the acquifitions, and 
the chara¢ters of the benefactors, Dr, Ruffell fupplied thofe 
deficiencies which his ample collection enabled him to dif- 
gover. 
Dr. Combe publifhed 
lorum x Usb a qui o Gu ur 
Deferiptio a a highly ufeful work, in which the Greek and 
NUM 
Roman coins of the collection are na ae according to the 
different cities in which they were ftruc 
Of the very rich paces of coins 3 and medals in the 
Britifh Mufeum, we are as yet without a defcriptive work ; 
part of which will, Caeee foon be prefented to the public. 
The following fhort account is from the ‘¢ Synopfis’”’ of 
the contents of that celebrated repofitory. This colleCtion, - 
the bafis of which was forme °Y the cabinets of fir Hans 
Sloane and fir Robert Cotton, has been from time to time 
enlarged by many valuable purchafes and sas pag but 
principally by the munificent bequeit of the Rev. C 
aha Tt is pal aaa under the three following 
heads. Ancient c dern coins. 3. Medals. 
The frit of thefe heads pene ‘Greek and Roman coins. 
The Greek coins are arranged in geographical order, and 
include all thofe which are itruck with Greek characters, i 
i or cities, which 
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or other characters. oma 
as it can be afcertained, in i cieonolegicsl order. 
fift of the 4s in its di ase ; family or confular coins ; im- 
perial coins ftruck i 
Egypt ; imperial coins A eee in the 
tn coins ftruck with Punic chara¢ters; contorniates. 
modern coins, confifts of 
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modern than either of thofe w 
medals ftruck in our own country, a 
een ftruck ad Thefe are nage in the fame manner 
as the modern 
The collection on the late king of France, now called the 
Imperial colle¢tion, ga in the National library of Paris, 
is by far the greateft in Europe. The confiderable treafures 
aay collected by ton ae, the Marechal d’Etreés, neha 
Patin, and in more modern times by Pellerin, are now 
incorporated with earn oft ke collection. Its balis 
was formed by Louis J. at Fontainebleau : Henry ITs 
ouis XIIL., aa paticulrly Louis XIV., have increafed 
sa treaf{nres with royal munific ; and the lalt of the juft 
nti 
tioned private collections, this cabinet silt in 1793, the 
Cabinet de Ste. Naat at Paris 5 fome years after it was 
increafed by the antique coins of the Stadtholder, and in 
1798, by the colleétion of the Vatican, the collection which 
formerly belonged to queen Chriftina of Sweden, _ me- 
dallions from the collections of cardinals Carpegna Al- 
bani, &e, A ec Hiftoire abrégée du ae des Medailles 
par ointreau, 
1800. ) An idee of the value of the ie colleGtion ma y 
be formed by the valuation made of it above forty years ago, 
which amounted to no lefs than fix millions of livres, The 
Cabinet de Ste. Genevieve, which, having been threatened by 
robbers in 1793, was removed to the National library, and 
incorporated with the Leen colle&tion, has been defcribed 
by Claude du Molinet in 
The celebrated imperial ealle@iog of -“ at Vienna, if 
we except that of Paris, ftands unrivalled among the cabinets 
of the continent. It was begun by the haan ee inand I., 
and foon confiderably increafed by the acceffion of other 
colleGtions, fuch as that formed by the aichlake rie 
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