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The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, ... Over 500,000 objects from the department are now on the online collection database, ...
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.
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]
The database number may use the parameter "id=" if desired. If no database number is included then the text is prefixed by a link to the BM database help page. Note that database numbers should be identical to the "&objectId=" parameter value in the URL of the British Museum collection
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.
In addition, departments or art classifications within the collection or museum may reserve sections of numbers. For example, objects identified by the numbers 11.000 through 11.999 may indicate objects obtained by the museum in 1911; the first 300 numbers might be used to indicate American art, while the next fifty (11.301–350) might be used ...
Tait, Hugh, A Catalogue of the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum, several volumes, British Museum. Volumes: I, The Jewels, 1986; II The Silver Plate, 1988; III The Curiosities, 1991. Generous extracts from these volumes are given at many entries on the British Museum collection database, usually under "Curator's comments".
British Museum Collection Database with over 40 photos (nearly all labelled "front", many incorrectly) "Barber"; D.J. Barber, I.C. Freestone, An investigation of the colour of the Lycurgus Cup by analytical transmission electron microscopy, 1990, Archeometry, 32, 33–45. British Museum Highlights "The Lycurgus Cup". British Museum