Note 95 — THE CHINA MEDALS, 1840, 1842, 1856, 1860.
Reading edition
The first design for this medal showed the Chinese Plenipotentiaries signing the treaty, and on the cloth of the table was an embroidered pattern representing the British Lion trampling on the Chinese dragon. So much was this part of the design approved of, that it was adopted for the reverse, instead of the whole, with the motto as above, and “Nankin, 1842,” underneath; but the present medal was ultimately struck, the first being deemed offensive to the feelings of the conquered people.