Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 1 of 2 / With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870.

by Edward Edwards

[See Book II, Chapter 2.]

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1810. The Roberts English Coins.

Collected by Edward Roberts, of the Exchequer; Purchased by Parliament for the sum of £4200.

This Collection extended from the Norman Conquest to the reign of George the Third. It was purchased for the Collector’s heir.

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1811. The De Bosset Greek Coins.

Collected by Colonel De Bosset. Purchased by the Trustees for the sum of £800.

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1813. The Hargrave Library.