Metal in gap magnetic head having metal magnetic film including precious metal layer

A metal in gap magnetic head comprising a pair of magnetic core halves joined together with magnetic gap forming surfaces thereof abutted to each other, and a metal magnetic film formed on the magnetic gap forming surface of at least one of the pair of magnetic core halves,

• wherein,
• the metal magnetic film comprises 2-10 stacked multilayer films separated by insulating layers,
• the insulating layers comprise layers selected from the group consisting of SiO.sub.2, ZrO.sub.2, Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 and Cr,
• each of the multilayer films comprising a layer of Fe.sub.x M.sub.y N.sub.z (with M being at least one selected from the group consisting of Ta, Zr, Hf, Nb, Ti, Mo and W, and x, y and z indicating atomic percentage and having the relationships 71.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.85, 6.ltoreq.y.ltoreq.15, and 9.ltoreq.z.ltoreq.16), and a precious metal layer selected from the group consisting of Pt, Au, Ag and Pd, the precious metal layer of a multilayer film generating an intense orientation of .alpha.-Fe plane (110), the thickness of the Fe.sub.x M.sub.y N.sub.z layer being between and including 0.05 to 1.0 .mu.m, the thickness of the precious metal layer being between and including 0.3 to 10 nm, the combined thickness of all the precious metal layers being not more than 5% of the overall thickness of the metal magnetic film.