Note 221 — Chapter IV · (continued 2)
Reading edition
The existence of this medal has been unblushingly denied by some Roman Catholic controversialists. It is described and figured in the Jesuit Bonani’s Numismata Pontificum (Rome, 1689), i. 336. Two commemorative medals were struck in France, and on the reverse of one of them Charles IX. is represented as Hercules with a club in the one hand and a torch in the other slaying the seven-headed Hydra. They are figured in the Bulletin de la Société de l’histoire du Protestantisme Français for 1855, pp. 139, 140.