BASE, CHRISTIAN HEINRICH (Germ.). Mint-master at Hanover, 1802, and Mint-director 1817; he died in 1818.
Source: Biographical dictionary of medallists; coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, ancient and modern, with references to their works B.C. 500-A.D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer, London 1904
Source: Biographical dictionary of medallists; coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, ancient and modern, with references to their works B.C. 500-A.D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer, London 1904
Mint master:
In medieval and early modern Germany, the Münzmeister ("mint master", the Latin term is monetarius) was the director or administrator of a mint, a moneyer with responsibility for the minting of coins, or specie. His duties were defined differently at different locations and ages.
AVANZI, NICCOLO
AVANZI, NICCOLO or DAVANZO (Ital.), a distinguished Stone and Crystal-cutter and Engraver of Verona, who lived in the second half of the sixteenth century. He also worked for some time at Rome. To him we owe a celebrated lapis-lazuli representing the Nativity of our Lord, which it is said, Isabella of Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino, acquired after great trouble. Avanzi's pupil was Matteo del Nassaro, the famous engraver at the court of Francis I. of France. Bibliography. — Babelon, Camées antiques e...
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AVANZI, NICCOLO or DAVANZO (Ital.), a distinguished Stone and Crystal-cutter and Engraver of Verona, who lived in the second half of the sixteenth century. He also worked for some time at Rome. To him we owe a celebrated lapis-lazuli representing the Nativity of our Lord, which it is said, Isabella of Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino, acquired after great trouble. Avanzi's pupil was Matteo del Nassaro, the famous engraver at the court of Francis I. of France. Bibliography. — Babelon, Camées antiques e...
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AVERLINO
AVERLINO or AVERULINO, ANTONIO, surnamed FILARETE (ltal.). Florentine Architect and Sculptor, born about 1400, died area 1469. A medal in the South Kensington Museum, with incuse inscriptions, was probably modelled and cast by himself; it represents his own portrait. This is probably the oldest Florentine medal . Averulino was engaged, under Duke Francesco Sforza,in the building of the Dome and Castle of Milan, between 1451 and 1454, and he also executed the bronze gate of St. Peter at Rome. Bib...
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AVERLINO or AVERULINO, ANTONIO, surnamed FILARETE (ltal.). Florentine Architect and Sculptor, born about 1400, died area 1469. A medal in the South Kensington Museum, with incuse inscriptions, was probably modelled and cast by himself; it represents his own portrait. This is probably the oldest Florentine medal . Averulino was engaged, under Duke Francesco Sforza,in the building of the Dome and Castle of Milan, between 1451 and 1454, and he also executed the bronze gate of St. Peter at Rome. Bib...
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AYLESBURY, SIR THOMAS
AYLESBURY, SIR THOMAS (Brit.), was granted on the 20th October, 1632, the office of" making and assizing the money- weights ", which was renewed to him and his son William Aylesbury later on “ It gave to them the agency for the sole making, uttering, and vending all counterpoises, or weights, and grains, and for approving and allowing all balances for his majesty's coins or money of gold, within England and Ireland, for the term of their lives. " Bibliography. — Rymer, vol. XX, p. 200. — Ruding,...
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AYLESBURY, SIR THOMAS (Brit.), was granted on the 20th October, 1632, the office of" making and assizing the money- weights ", which was renewed to him and his son William Aylesbury later on “ It gave to them the agency for the sole making, uttering, and vending all counterpoises, or weights, and grains, and for approving and allowing all balances for his majesty's coins or money of gold, within England and Ireland, for the term of their lives. " Bibliography. — Rymer, vol. XX, p. 200. — Ruding,...
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AYMARY, P.
AYMARY, P. (Brit.). A native of Tours, who was commanded by King Henry II., in 1180, to come to England, to undertake the work of improving the coinage. The money had been so adulterated that it had to be called in and a new currency, struck under the supervision of this foreign artist, came into force. But, " instead of attending, as it was his duty to do, to the increase of the revenue, and to the restraining the arts of counterfeiters, he was heavily suspected of conniving at the frauds of th...
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AYMARY, P. (Brit.). A native of Tours, who was commanded by King Henry II., in 1180, to come to England, to undertake the work of improving the coinage. The money had been so adulterated that it had to be called in and a new currency, struck under the supervision of this foreign artist, came into force. But, " instead of attending, as it was his duty to do, to the increase of the revenue, and to the restraining the arts of counterfeiters, he was heavily suspected of conniving at the frauds of th...
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