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chard the Third. Then returning to fpeak of Medafs, 
he mentions the Saturnalian made in Buffoonry, and 
touches upon fome of the Cuftoms ufed at that Feaft • 
and obferves, except thofe, no Medals were made but 
upon grave and ferious Occafions. Speaking of the 
Heads and Reverfes, he fays, Medals without any Re- 
verft, are never Antique ; but may, without Head be 
good. Our Author next, makes feveral Remarks touch- 
ing the Heads, as whether naked or crowned , bearded 
or fliaven, &c. as likewife of the Figures expreft at 
length on the Revcrfes ; He proceeds to the Greek Me- 
dals , with their feveral Ornaments and Reverfts , 
thence to the Barbarous, Parthian j Armenian^ &c. and 
fo to our Saxon • of all which he defer ibes the particu- 
lar Ornaments on their Heads, ^c, then he comes to 
Medals made of remarkable Perfons, touches upon P<j- 
pal and French Medals after which he mentions the 
curious Colieftion of Pyrrhus Ligorius , being twenty 
fix Volumes of Draughts of Medals, Infcriptions^ Re- 
I/evoSyScc, Greek and Roman ; of the Duke of Savofs, 
Duke Allerfs of Bavaria, now in the Cuftody of the 
Royal Society, containing the Images of Roman Kings, . 
Confiils, DidbatorSj Knights, Tribunes, &c. from the 
Foundation of Rome to Julius C^far; after which 
he Remarks the Nicenefs of the Ancients, in having 
thcirRefemblances taken by none but exquifite Mafters, 
whence we may well believe their Medals to be very 
like them ; he concludes this Chapter, with a Propofal 
of defigning in dead life by a very good Hand, what 
Medals of undoubted Truth can be procured ^ andthefe 
to be as well and exadly Engraven on Copper Plates. 
The Third Chapter treats of Ancient and Modern Re- 
verfes, as they relate to Hiftory, Chronology , and other 
parts of Learning, the ufe and benefit whereof helhews 
