Biographical dictionary of medallists: coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, &c., ancient and modern, with references to their works B. C. 500-A. D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer ...

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E
E (Greek). Possibly an Engraver's signature on a Syracusan
Drachm (circa B.C. 405-345). Cf. Evans, Num. Chron., 1894, p. 306,
P1. XVIII, fig. 9; Forrer, Signatures, p. 70.
Sir Arthur J. Evans suggests that the signature may represent
Evaenetos.
The letter E occurs also on Tarentine Didrachms of the period
of circa B.C. 460-420; sometimes on the dolphin's body, or on a
shield held by Taras.
On a Didrachm of Thurium an E occurs on the rump of the
bull as well as in front of the head of Athene, whilst an earlier
specimen has a on the rev.
Cf. also Exakestidas, Evaenetos, &c.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.- L. Forrer, Les Signatures de Graveurs sur les Monnaies grecques,
Bruxelles, 1903.
EAGLE (Medailleur a 1'aigle). (B. D. M., Vol. II, p. 4). The medals
given by Armand and Heiss under this heading belong, according
to Bode, to Niccolo Spinelli (Vide Vol. V, p. 621).
EAST, JOHN (Brit.). Assistant-engraver at the Tower Mint, London, appointed on January 23, I633-4, for life, in succession to
Charles Greene, and in office until December I65, when he was
succeeded by Nicholas Burgh. Mr. Symonds suggests that the dies
for the Commonwealth coinage may have been engraved by East
or Burgh, or the two conjointly (cf. Hy Symonds, Engravers of the
Tudor and Stuart Periods, Num. Chron., I913, p. 367).
EAUBONNE, LUCIEN D' (French). Contemporary Sculptor and
Medallist, born at Chaville (Seine-et-Oise); pupil of Gustave Moreau
and H. Dubois. At the Paris Salon 1912 he exhibited a frame
containing four Medals and Plaquettes, and again in 1913 he showed
a plaquette, a bronze medal, and six medals in plaster; - 1914.
Bronze plaquette, Le Calvaire, etc.
EBERBACH, W. (Germ.). Contemporary Medallist of Strassburg,
whose signature occurs on the P1C. of a Portrait-medal of Dr Eduard
Ruppell, of Frankfort-on-M.