Furvus.
St. James's.
Inscription on Penny of George III. (Vol. vii., p. 65.).—"Stabit quocunque jeceris" (it will stand in whatever way you throw it) is the well-known motto of the Isle of Mann, and has reference to the arms of the island, which are—Gules, three armed legs argent, flexed in triangle, garnished and spurred or. I venture to conjecture that the three legs of Mann were also on the penny J. M. A. mentioned.
Some curious lines about this motto are to be found in The Isle of Mann Guide, by James Brotherston Laughton, B.A. (Douglas, 1850): one verse is—
"With spurs and bright cuishes, to make them look neat,
He rigg'd out the legs; then to make them complete,
He surrounded the whole with four fine Roman feet.
They were 'Quocunque jeceris stabit,'
A thorough-paced Roman Iamb."
The fore-mentioned work also contains a song entitled "The Copper Row," referring to the disturbances occasioned by the coinage of 1840.