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  2. British Museum Department of Coins and Medals - Wikipedia

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    The Fishpool Hoard of mediaeval coins, northern England, late 15th century AD. The British Museum Department of Coins and Medals is a department of the British Museum involving the collection, research and exhibition of numismatics, and comprising the largest library of numismatic artefacts in the United Kingdom, including almost one million coins, medals, tokens and other related objects. [1]

  3. British Museum - Wikipedia

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    The museum's first notable addition towards its collection of antiquities, since its foundation, was by Sir William Hamilton (1730–1803), British Ambassador to Naples, who sold his collection of Greek and Roman artefacts to the museum in 1784 together with a number of other antiquities and natural history specimens.

  4. Category:Collection of the British Museum - Wikipedia

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    Objects in the collection of the British Museum, London, England, sorted by department. See also Category:British Library collections, which were part of the British Museum before the establishment of the British Library in 1973.

  5. British Museum to fully digitise collection after 'inside job ...

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    LONDON (Reuters) -The British Museum said on Wednesday it planned to digitise its entire collection, citing the need to secure public access to its vast catalogue after it reported in August that ...

  6. British Museum to receive highest-value gift in UK history ...

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    The British Museum is to receive the highest-value gift in UK museum history as it acquires £1 billion worth of Chinese ceramics. Trustees of the Sir Percival David Foundation are to donate 1,700 ...

  7. British Museum Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan

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    Wooden stela on display in the British Museum Bust of Ramses II in British Museum. The Department of Ancient Egypt is a department forming an historic part of the British Museum, with Its more than 100,000 [1] pieces making it the largest and most comprehensive collection of Egyptian antiquities outside the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

  8. British Museum Catalogues of Coins - Wikipedia

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    The British Museum Catalogues of Coins was a series envisioned and initiated by Reginald Stuart Poole, Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals, at the British Museum, between 1870 and 1893. The aim was to produce a scholarly series of catalogues of the collection, based on the British Museum's collection and other collections.

  9. Aegina Treasure - Wikipedia

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    Since 1892, it has been part of the British Museum's collection. [1] It is one of the most important groups of Minoan jewellery . The Aegina Treasure is composed largely of gold jewellery that has been dated, based on its style and iconography, to the Greek Bronze Age between 1850 and 1550 BC, [ 2 ] so "Middle Minoan II" and III in most ...