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The true reading then of the inscription, with the translation, 

 which has been obligingly made for me by the Vice-Provost, is 

 as follows : — 



Thus in English characters — 

 Meshiach malak ba beshalom veor meadani gnashui chai. 

 Translated into Latin — 

 Messiah regnavit ; venit in pace ; et lux ex homine factus, vivit. 



In English — 

 The Messiah has reigned ; he came in peace ; and, being made 

 the light of man, liveth. 

 These circumstances, arising from the more perfect preservation 

 of this medal, will, I trust, settle every controversy that may arise, 

 at least from the ambiguity of the letters. It must be acknowledg- 

 ed, however, that there is great rudeness visible even in their most 

 perfect state. Though the impression is sharp and well defined, 

 the nice and delicate marks, which distinguish similar Hebrew 

 letters from each other, seem to have been altogether disregarded 

 in the original die, from which the impression is taken. It may 

 further be added, that the letters are entirely without vowel points ; 

 of which not a trace is discernible in any part of the inscription. 



But the most striking dissimilitude in the present state of the 

 medals is in the bust on the obverse. The figure is certainly in- 

 tended to represent the Saviour of the World, yet, in the Cork 

 medal, it seems to retain little of those characters, that should de- 

 signate so august a personage. The head appears bald ; the frontal 

 and temporal bones, and those of the upper jaw, fleshless and pro- 

 jecting ; so as to exhibit the appearance of a naked scull. The 

 chin is peaked and without a beard, or with one very imperfectly 

 expressed ; and, in the whole aspect, there is an expression of 



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