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BRITISH MUSEUM.
DEPARTMENT OF
COINS AND MEDALS.

A GUIDE
TO THE
EXHIBITION OF
ENGLISH MEDALS.

BY
HERBERT A. GRUEBER, F.S.A.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:
PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES.

Longmans & Co., Paternoster Row; B. Quaritch, 15, Piccadilly;
A. Asher & Co., 13, Bedford Street, Covent Garden, and at Berlin;
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 57 and 59, Ludgate Hill;
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LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

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EDITOR'S PREFACE.

The medals described in this Guide have been selected for theirhistorical interest from the larger series in the Medal Room, and areexhibited in the Cases marked E, F, G, H. The specimens in goldare represented by electrotypes, and those in lead by plaster casts,coloured so as to resemble the originals. Each medal is separatelylabelled and numbered, the numbers referring to the descriptions inthe Guide.

The Introduction gives as much information as could be admittedin the limits, and each medal is described and explained on the sameprinciple. The metal is also stated, and the sizes in inches andtenths, with other particulars necessary for identification.

The first illustrated edition of this work being exhausted, a secondis now issued, with a new set of eight plates, executed by the AutotypeProcess from casts in plaster.

REGINALD STUART POOLE.

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CONTENTS.