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BOYAL NUMISMATIC SOCIETY. 19sestertius,as it was nearly double the weight of the sestertiusof the period.Mr. H. Alexander Parsons exhibited a sovereign withname of Henry VIII, which he would attribute to Edward VI,as it had the purely Roman letters and the cinquefoil stops ;and four testoons of Edward VI with mint-mark bow, but withthe TIMOR, &c., instead of the I N I MICOS, &c., legend, with mintmarkrose of 1549, with legends reversed, with mint-mark obv.pheon, rev. arrow, and with mint-mark Y of 1550.Mr. F. A. Walters, F.S.A., exhibited a penny of Stephenof Hawkins type, No. 268, of the Bedford Mint, readingALPINE ON BEI.Mr. L. A. Lawrence, F.S.A., showed a shilling of Charles Iwith mint-mark negro's head on both sides, and shield withplume on reverse.Mr. W. E. Marsh exhibited two half-crowns of QueenVictoria, 1871, of the ordinary Wyon type; the Royal Minthas no record of an issue of half-crowns in that year.Mr. Henry Garside exhibited the new Indian rupee ofGeorge V with the improved design of the elephant on theking's pendant, and a British Imperial bronze farthing of1877, not struck for circulation.Mr. Henry Symonds, F.S.A., read a paper on " Edward VIand Durham House," in which he was able to prove theexistence of a working mint during the reign of Edward VIin the Strand palace of the Bishop of Durham. He attributedthe coins of Henry VIII and Edward VI bearing the mintmarks,bow, grappling-iron, and swan, to John Bowes at thismint, and not to Martin Bowes at the Tower, and proposedan interesting explanation of the Redde Cuique, &c., legendon certain debased coins.