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[[underlined]] History of the world [[/underlined]]

[[strikethrough]] Within the last two years [[/strikethrough]]
About two years ago the Curator was directed to [[strikethrough]] take some [[/strikethrough]] begin the formation of a collection [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] to illustrate the money of the world and ^[[within]] [[strikethrough]] it was but [[/strikethrough]] a few months the collection [[strikethrough]] quite a ? was quite ? was [[/strikethrough]] was given a good start by the gift of several hundred copper and silver coins ^[[of modern times]] and by [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] loans of ^[[nearly two]] thousand coins of ancient Greek and Rome.  [[strikethrough]] Some [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Part]] of the collection is labelled and