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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below, JEUFFROY FECIT, and DENON DIREXIT in two lines; PgL. DESCENTE EN ANGLET'rERE, Hercules standing, squeezing a Triton to
death, and in the exergue, FRAPPEE A LONDRES —EN I804 in two
lines, with plain edge, a fine medal of great historical interest.
** The dies of this medal were engraved in Paris at the time
when Napoleon was preparing his expedition against England, and
after the taking of London(?) they were intended to have been
used there. As the invasion did not take place, the medal was never
struck. There is said to be only one impression in lead known:
this was in the cabinet of Dr Burney, who sold this with other
medals to Mr. Charles Stokes in I846 or 47, from whom the present owner obtained it. Somewhat later, copies of this medal were
struck in France and England, on 1which a head by Droz was substiI)escente en Angleterre. I804.
tuted for that by Jeuffroy, and the former head was also used for
several other medals of the Imperial series. The work on the reverse
of these copies is, however, less delicately treated, the word
FRAPPEE in the exergue of the original is incorrectly written FRAPPE
on the imitations, and the edge (on some) bears an inscription in
raised letters, MEDAL | COPIED | FROM THE FRENCH. The latter were
struck at Birmingham.
Dr Bousfield possesses a PL. die, signed JEU. of the commemorative medal of the Battle of Sommo Sierra.
J.M. Signature on a medal of Prince de la Paz, I8o6 (Vives I97).
J.M.R. Signature on a coronation medal of Alfonso XIII, 1902.
JOBST, HEINRICH (Germ.). Contemporary Sculptor and Medallist
of Nuremberg, now residing at Darmstadt. By him is a Plaquette
commemorating the Jubilee of Giessen University, I907 (struck by
L. Ch. Lauer).
JOHANNEAUX, GERVAIS (French). Mint-master at La Rochelle,
1490: a crescent or two crescents.