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ROYAL NUMISMATIC SOCIETY. 27to which I have already referred.Mr. Henry Symonds hascontinued his useful investigations into the records of theMint by an account of some light coins of Charles I. ToMiss Helen Farquhar we areindebted for a very completeaccount of the silver counters of the seventeenth century,accompanied by acute investigations into their technique.She has brought forward good evidence to show that mostof the earlier series are hand-engraved, the design beingmultiplied by an ingenious process, but that others seem tohave been cast, and others again are " the distinct productof a die ".It is,however, the Hellenic branch of numismatics thathas been brought into special prominence during the lastyear by a series of papers. Mr. J. Mavrogordato has continuedhis exhaustive investigation into the chronology ofthe coinage of Chios. Hispresent study embraces Period VIII,334-190 B.C., and Period IX, 190-88 B.C., the series nowdescribed being specially rich in magistrates' names. Mr. J. G.Milne has described a hoard of bronze coins of Smyrnawhich supplies some clues as to the connexions and chronologicalsuccession of groups of magistrates issuing Homereia.Mr. J. W. Hunkin, in a note on the silver coins of the Jews,has afforded ample demonstration that the thick shekels arenot Maccabean but belong to the time of the First Eevolt.In Mr. Hill's list of Greek coins acquired by the BritishMuseum, 1914-16, arecutting off of the Government grantsome interesting pieces, though thesince the War hasplaced our national collection at a great disadvantage.Thereare, however, several individual contributions of interest."Fifty-seven bronze coins of Smyrna, including eighteenHomereia and several new magistrates' names, were presentedby Mr. W. H. Buckler, whose liberality has alsoadded to the Museum 229 ancient Spanishcoins of silverand bronze. Mr. J. Anderson of Athens has helped to fillthe gap in the Athenian small change of the fifth centuryB. c.