BORRIEN AND MAGENS (Brit.). " In the year 1798, in consequence of the extreme scarcity of silver money, Messrs. Dorrien and Magens sent a quantity of bullion to the Mint to be coined according to the law, which had never been repealed, by which it was enacted that any one sending bullion to the Mint might have it coined into money, upon the payment of certain dues. The whole was actually coined into shillings from dies varying very slightly from those of 1787, but with the date 1798, and having no dot over the head; but the very day on which the bankers were, by appointment, to have received the coin, an Order of Council was received, commanding it all to be melted, upon the ground that the proceeding had been irregular, and that no coinage was lawful without the sanction of a royal proclamation. Very few indeed of these pieces escaped the crucible. " (Hawkins, Silver Coins of England, London, 1887, p. 412.) One of these pattern shillings, engraved by Pingo, is described in Spink & Son's Catalogue of H. Montagu s Milled English Coins from George I. to Victoria, London, 1890.
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
BÉVILLE, PAUL JULES ALBERT
BÉVILLE, PAUL JULES ALBERT (French). Contemporary Medallist, born at Tours, and residing at Paris, 95 Avenue de Villiers ; a pupil of the sculptor Chapu. He is the author of several Portraitmedallions, amongst which that of Louis Victor Baillot, the last French survivor or the battle of Waterloo, decorated on 29th February 1896 with the cross of the Legion of Honour, is mentioned by Dr F. P. Weber in his article on Medals of Centenarians, Num. Chron., 1897, P- 311. He has also executed Portrait-...
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BÉVILLE, PAUL JULES ALBERT (French). Contemporary Medallist, born at Tours, and residing at Paris, 95 Avenue de Villiers ; a pupil of the sculptor Chapu. He is the author of several Portraitmedallions, amongst which that of Louis Victor Baillot, the last French survivor or the battle of Waterloo, decorated on 29th February 1896 with the cross of the Legion of Honour, is mentioned by Dr F. P. Weber in his article on Medals of Centenarians, Num. Chron., 1897, P- 311. He has also executed Portrait-...
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BEYER, JUSTINUS
BEYER, JUSTINUS or JOHANN DE (Swiss). This Engraver, who was born at Basle, flourished in the early part of the eighteenth century at Berne, where he was still working in 1738. With Gessner, who filled the office of Master of the Mint at Zürich at about the same period, he is considered among the best eighteenth century Medal-engravers of Switzerland, after Hedlinger, and the two Dassiers. The following medals and coins by him are represented in the Wunderly von Muralt collection : Treaty of Aar...
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BEYER, JUSTINUS or JOHANN DE (Swiss). This Engraver, who was born at Basle, flourished in the early part of the eighteenth century at Berne, where he was still working in 1738. With Gessner, who filled the office of Master of the Mint at Zürich at about the same period, he is considered among the best eighteenth century Medal-engravers of Switzerland, after Hedlinger, and the two Dassiers. The following medals and coins by him are represented in the Wunderly von Muralt collection : Treaty of Aar...
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BIANCHI, CAV. FRANCESCO
BIANCHI, CAV. FRANCESCO (Ital.). Papal Mint-engraver and Medallist; succeeded his father Ignazio in 1869. He executed the dies for the last Papal Coinage, in 1870, and is the author of over a hundred medals of Pius IX. and Leo XIII., none of which are of much interest from an artistic point of view. Among the best known productions of this Die-sinker are : Pius IX., 1870, AI 100, 50, 20, 10 and 5 Lire; AR 5, 2, 1 and 1/2 Lire; — Pius IX. as Princeps Pastorum; — Congress of Italian Physicians at ...
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BIANCHI, CAV. FRANCESCO (Ital.). Papal Mint-engraver and Medallist; succeeded his father Ignazio in 1869. He executed the dies for the last Papal Coinage, in 1870, and is the author of over a hundred medals of Pius IX. and Leo XIII., none of which are of much interest from an artistic point of view. Among the best known productions of this Die-sinker are : Pius IX., 1870, AI 100, 50, 20, 10 and 5 Lire; AR 5, 2, 1 and 1/2 Lire; — Pius IX. as Princeps Pastorum; — Congress of Italian Physicians at ...
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BIANCHI, IGNAZIO
BIANCHI, IGNAZIO (Ital.). Papal Mint-engraver and Medallist; worked at Rome between 1848 and 1869, and executed besides the coinage a large number of medals with bust of the Pope Pius IX., and others. One of his finest productions is a large and heavy medal in silver, representing on R the interior of St. John Lateran's Church, a master-piece of the art of die-sinking. By him are also : Inauguration of San Spirito Hospital, Rome, .1866; — Hospital of St. Onofrius for the Insane, 1866; — St. Tho...
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BIANCHI, IGNAZIO (Ital.). Papal Mint-engraver and Medallist; worked at Rome between 1848 and 1869, and executed besides the coinage a large number of medals with bust of the Pope Pius IX., and others. One of his finest productions is a large and heavy medal in silver, representing on R the interior of St. John Lateran's Church, a master-piece of the art of die-sinking. By him are also : Inauguration of San Spirito Hospital, Rome, .1866; — Hospital of St. Onofrius for the Insane, 1866; — St. Tho...
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