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 ...

-256 -E.P. (Dan). These initials E P of a Medallist of the middle of
the seventeenth century, occur on a medal with busts of King
Frederick III. of Denmark and consort Sophie Amalie, which may
be commemorative of their marriage in I648. It is illustrated in
0. Jacobaus, Tab. XXV, and mentioned in Nagler, Monogrammisten,
II, p. 642, n~ 1722. A specimen is in the Maurice Rosenheim
Collection.
EPIMENES (Greek). Archaic Greek Gem-engraver of the sixth
cent. B.C. His signature, written in Ionic style: En l MHNEI
EPflE occurs on a chalcedony scaraboid.
EPINAL, JEAN D' (French). Goldsmith and Jeton-engraver of
Dijon, circ. 1418-I424.
EPITYNCHANOS (B.D.M., Vol. II, p. 24). The signature EPITY
occurs on the following gems, which may be modern: Mercury,
holding caduceus, on eagle of Jupiter (Stosch); - Full figure of
Germanicus (Stosch).
Dalton (B.M.Cat. of Engraved Gems of the Post-classical
Periods, I915) describes two gems in the Brit. Museum, which
are modern and inscribed with the name of Epitynchanus: Red
Jasper: Anchor with a dolphin upon the shaft (EnITYNXANOY);
- Amethyst: Livia (?), idealized bust, facing, wearing a laurelwreath veil and necklace (EnlT).
EPLIE, ANDREAS (Germ.). Mint-engraver at Mayence, I765;
signed: A.E.
ERC, ERH (Germ.). Monetarius at Ratisbon, circa 950-976.
ERGENSHEIMER, FRITZ (Germ.). Mint-master at Miltenberg,
Bavaria, 1370, I378.
ERHARD (Germ.). Mint-master(?) at Nuremberg, 1429.
ERHARD, HANS (Germ). Mint-master in Sangerhausen, I44o.
ERINMANN, DIETRICH (Swiss). Mint-master at Basle, about 1342.
ERLINGER or ERLANGER, JORG (Germ.). Mint-master at Landshut,
1458-I459.
ERNST, KASPAR (Germ.). Mint-master at Kallmiinz (Pfalz.-Neub.)
1623.
ERNST, TOBIAS (B.D.M., Vol. II, p. 26). A Portrait-medal of
Count Nicolas Louis of Zinzendorf, founder of the community of
Moravian brethren, is signed: T. ERNST, and is probably by this
Berlin Engraver (1754-I768).