. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Joseph B. Stack. The contemporary art medal was not forgotten and a fine representative group of foreign creations (fig. 126) has been added to the regular contributions received from the Medallic Art Company in New York. Of historical and tech- nical interest is an obverse die used in 1565 for the striking of an English marriage medal of Mary, Queen of Scotland and Henry Darnley (fig. 127). Finally, mention should be made of steady annual contributors such as various members of the Stack family, Mr. Willis H. du Pont, Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Joseph B. Stack. The contemporary art medal was not forgotten and a fine representative group of foreign creations (fig. 126) has been added to the regular contributions received from the Medallic Art Company in New York. Of historical and tech- nical interest is an obverse die used in 1565 for the striking of an English marriage medal of Mary, Queen of Scotland and Henry Darnley (fig. 127). Finally, mention should be made of steady annual contributors such as various members of the Stack family, Mr. Willis H. du Pont, Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer Neinken, Mrs. Milton Holmes, and others. Through these regular and in\'aluable additions there has been a well-balanced increase of holdings within the various sections of the Division of Numismatics: coins and tokens; paper money; medallic art; documentation of the evolution of manufacturing techniques of coins, medals and paper currencies; and, as the niost recent adjunct, documentation of the history of banking. EXHIBITS As the previous chapters have discussed the history and growth of the numismatic collections, this chapter gives a general view of the development of numismatic exhibits at the Smithsonian. Before 1860 these ex- hibits were few and casual. W. J. Rhees mentions only some Japanese gold and sihcr coins and some prim- itive media of exchange on display in the west gallery of the original Smithsonian ; Later, in 1886, the arrangement of the collection of medals and moneys of the world was begun and about 2,000 specimens were placed on exhibition in the north hall of the Arts and Industries Building, in an effort to show the monetary standards of different nations and to give the origin of \arious denominations.^* Also in the exhibit was a series of bronze copies in duplicate of all medals struck by the United States Mint.*' An exhibit was added in 1888 illustrating the money of Biblical times. Attention was also given to United States bonds and curr
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