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2) Antique coins.

Tins collection amounts to about twenty thou­ sand, and is of the greatest antiquity. 3) Foreign coins. Amongst these, those of Sweden arc the most numerous and remarkable. •/ t ■■ v ■' . , * I • * •' • -•v "' The china - cabinet is not only very beautiful, but very considerable; it consists of the manufactures of Copenhagen, Sevres, Meissen, China, and Japan; in this apartment is a su­ perb table-service, on which is painted a magnificent description of Flora Vanica. This service of china was ordered by Catherine the second of Russia, but as she died before it was finished, it was purchased by His Majesty Christian the seventh. The portrait of King Frederick the fifth; it is pla­ ced on a pedestal, on which is the following inscrip­ tion: t(Frcclericus V. Ilex. Dan. ty ]\'orv. Augustus. In- viclus. Delicto; populi sui , qatcr palricc. Virtutum Diorice antcoessorum regni lucres dignissimus; iisdein po­ tior ipse JMDCCLII. Pinxit J. J. Papfer 1752.