Title: Orpheus, returning from Hades without Eurydice Maker: Marie Alexandre Lucien Coudray (born 1864) Date: 1893–99, struck in the 20th century Culture: French, Paris. 7 cm diameter. 178,91 grams. Born in Paris, Coudray entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1882. In 1893 he won the Prix de Rome with a medal of Orpheus at the Gates of Hell. While staying at the Villa Medici in Rome, Coudray designed a steel medallion of the same subject, which may have been the obverse of this medal. The Paris Mint purchased the issuing rights in 1899, going on to sell over 4500 copies at the 1900 Exposition Universelle, where it won a silver prize.