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ANCIENT PORTRAITURES OF OUR LORD. 119 medal — the head of our Saviour — that I had obtained from the National Collection. It is apparently a casting of the same type in gilt metal, the details of the obverse ^Yith the profile head and the legend are identical ; the dimensions are indeed slightly larger, the diameter being somewhat more than 3^ in., and the reverse bears, within a foliated chaplet tied by a riband at the bottom, the following legend : — tv es chimstvs filivs dei vivi qvi in hvnc MVNDYM a'enisti. The slight disparity in size is probably accidental, the edge of the disc having been left somewhat larger in finishing off the margin of the cast. At the top there is a small perforation, for the purpose of suspension. It deserves notice that certain medals of the fine Papal Series present a profile head of the Saviour, which bears in several instances resemblance to the type of the emerald icon. The kindness of Mrs. ]readows Frost, of Chester, has invited my attention to the beautiful medals of Gregory X., Alexander VIL, and Pius V., in her posses.sion. ALBERT WAT. Medal of white mixed metal, probably a fine sand-casting. Date circa, a.d. 1500. From an example in possession of Albert Wat.