Phillips. 6£o 



This medal was cut by Mrs. Lea Ahlborn, of Stockholm, medalist and 

 designer of the R>yal Swedish Mint. The execution of the flesh is re- 

 markably well clone, and the whole medal is a credit to the skill of the 

 female artist. 



There are also medals of Lavater, Cervantes, Shakspeare, of the Series 

 Numismatiea, and of Alexander the First of Russia, and Louis XVI. of 

 France, deposited by II. Dumon-1 Wagner, Esq., of this city. 



A bronze medal commemorating the Massacre of Si. Bartholomew hears 

 on the obverse the head of Pope Gregory Kill.; on the reverse an angel 

 armed witli sword and cross destroying and putting to flight a multitude, 

 with the inscription Hugenotokum Straoks. 



It may be observed in regard to this medal that doubts have been castas 

 to whether it was actually issued by the Papal authorities, but rather that it 

 was done by those inimical to the Church of Rome, in order to cast discredit 

 upon it by appearing to exult over such a scene of carnage. The present 

 medal, however, is of most undoubted genuineness, having been purchased 

 in Rome with the whole series of the Pontifical Medals direct from the 

 Director of the Papal Mint. The author of " La Science des Mcdailles " 

 (Paris, 1715), says, il ne faut pas confonire avec les verilables medailles den 

 Papes, certaines que les ennemis du Saint Siege ont fabriquees four les iu- 

 sulter, ou pour les rendre odieux. Telle eat celle du Jules III. avec cetle 

 inscription qui lui sert da revers, Gens et Regnuji quod non servieiut 

 TiBt PERiBiT, Telle est la Hedaille de Paul III, 



(PEPNH ZHNOI ETPAINEI, 



que Von ne doit jamais placer parmi les medailles reritables. (No. 52 in 

 the Hockley collection.) 



Pinkerton, however, is of the opinion that this latter described medal is 

 genuine and was cut by Michael Angelo. It is certainly a handsome piece 

 of workmanship and would do no discredit even to that great artist if the 

 attribution be correct. 



All the medals before Paul the Second, according to the same author, 

 were issued during the Pontificate of Alexander the Seventh. It is stated 

 that the Abbe Bizot had the design of issuing a full line of all the Popes, 

 which he was prevented from accomplishing by the death of the reigning 

 pontiff under whose auspices the undertaking had been begun. 



Pinkerton states that the medal of .Julius the Second, " contra stimulum 

 ne calritras," is the first medal which was struck instead of bring cast. 

 He attributes to Cellini the medal of Clement the Seventh, "ut bibat popu- 

 lus;" that of Gregory XIII. upon the reformation of the Calendar to 

 Parmegiano and to Bassiano and Cavino (the celebrated Paduan forgers) 

 the dies of the medals of Julius the Third. 



Mrs. Henry Bohlon of this city lias deposited a number of interesting 

 gold and silver coins and medals, among which latter are the following : 



A very large silver medal (size 42 of the scale of the Numismatic and 

 Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia), bearing on the obverse a view of the 

 city of Amsterdam ; in the foreground the river A ins 'el tilled with vessels 



