GROUX, Professor Dan. E.  Alias of Jacques Groux (fl 1856).
          An accomplished con man, he was an associate of
          Thomas Wyatt (q.v.), counterfeiter, who produced
          "Wyatt copies" of early American Colonial Coins
          (e.g. New England, Pine Tree, Good Samaritan
          shillings and such). Groux had Wyatt also made
          false copies of U.S. medals.
       
         Groux is most noted, however, as the designer of a medal 
          that was never struck. He published a pamphlet where his 
          outrageous plan to issue a Benjamin Franklin Medal was 
          described, to be the beginning of an astounding 1000-medal
          series (none of which were ever produced). At least three 
          numismatists have been taken in by this proposal and included 
          this nonexistant medal in their works.          

          M   E   D   A   L   S

1856 Boston Benjamin Franklin Statue Inauguration Medal
          [medal proposed, never struck] . . . .  Greenslet GM-78,
          Storer 1940, Fuld FR.M.IN.1

          N U M I S M A T I C   R E F E R E N C E S

M10 {1923} Storer (Massachusetts) 1940, p 252.
S27 {1956} Fuld (Franklin) FR.M.IN.1, p 69.
N31 {1992} Smith. American Numismatic Biographies, p 107.
S55 {1993} Greenslet GM-78, p 37.