Roberts’s Eng¬ 
lish, Coins* 
XXIV INTRODUCTION. 
intrinsic value of this accession, ordered the pay¬ 
ment of c £’ 400 , the sum demanded, and caused 
the collection to be added to their Library. It 
consists of eighty-four volumes, among which 
is Dr. Bentley’s copy of the plays of Aristo¬ 
phanes, with his copious and profound illustra¬ 
tions, a commentary much prized by the first 
critics in Greek literature. 
The Trustees having, at all times, particularly 
at heart to make such additions to their ample 
stores as may tend to illustrate national objects of 
inquiry, did not fail to listen to a proposal made 
them, in the year 1810 , by Edward Roberts, Esq. 
of the Exchequer, offering them the purchase of 
a rich series of the Coins of the Realm, from the 
Conquest to the present time, which he valued at 
4000 guineas.—Having, on sufficient evidence, 
ascertained the importance of the object, and 
the fairness of the estimate, they accepted the 
offer, by which means, with the addition of the 
Saxon coins just now mentioned, and those of sub¬ 
sequent dates already in the repository, they may 
safely boast of being possessed of the most com¬ 
plete national collection of coins now extant. 
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