GOTTFRIED HEYER. Mint-master at Herborn, 1681- 1682. Also G. O. H.
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.
GERMAIN, PIERRE
GERMAIN, PIERRE (French). Goldsmith and Medal-engraver of the second halfaf the seventeenth century. He was born at Paris in 1645 and died thereon the 24th of September, 1684. The Paris Mint records show that an engraver of the name of Germain executed in 1678 and 1679 dies for the " Medallic History of Louis XIV ", and that he received, in two payments, the sum of 853 livres 2 sols. Whether this Germain, whose christian name is not given, is the same person as Pierre Germain, who at about the s...
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GERMAIN, PIERRE (French). Goldsmith and Medal-engraver of the second halfaf the seventeenth century. He was born at Paris in 1645 and died thereon the 24th of September, 1684. The Paris Mint records show that an engraver of the name of Germain executed in 1678 and 1679 dies for the " Medallic History of Louis XIV ", and that he received, in two payments, the sum of 853 livres 2 sols. Whether this Germain, whose christian name is not given, is the same person as Pierre Germain, who at about the s...
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GERVAIS, ELIAS
GERVAIS, ELIAS (Germ.). Medallist, and Coin-engraver at Neuwied and Coblence, 1750-1775. His initials E. G. are found on Thalers of Mayence, Treves, and Ellwangen, of 1764, 1765, and 1768 (Ammon, Sammlung berühmter Medailleurs, n° 468). I have seen them on the following pieces : Mayence, Conven- tions-Thaler of 1765, of Emerich Joseph, Freiherr von Breitbach- Burresheim ; — Treves, Conventions-Thaler of 1764, of Johann Philipp, Freiherr von Walderdorff ; — Treves, Conventions- Thaler, and Half, ...
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GERVAIS, ELIAS (Germ.). Medallist, and Coin-engraver at Neuwied and Coblence, 1750-1775. His initials E. G. are found on Thalers of Mayence, Treves, and Ellwangen, of 1764, 1765, and 1768 (Ammon, Sammlung berühmter Medailleurs, n° 468). I have seen them on the following pieces : Mayence, Conven- tions-Thaler of 1765, of Emerich Joseph, Freiherr von Breitbach- Burresheim ; — Treves, Conventions-Thaler of 1764, of Johann Philipp, Freiherr von Walderdorff ; — Treves, Conventions- Thaler, and Half, ...
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GESSNER HANS JAKOB
GESSNER HANS JAKOB (Swiss). Medallist and Coin-engraver of Zurich, son of the preceding. He took his father's place at the Zurich Mint, on the latter's death, and although it is possible that some of the Elder Gessner's dies remained in use after 1737, I should think the younger Gessner engraved the signed Half-thalers of Zurich, from 1739 to 1773 and other coins of that period. Amongst this engraver's best known works are : Medal on the Fourth Centenary of the Establishment of Guilds at Zurich...
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GESSNER HANS JAKOB (Swiss). Medallist and Coin-engraver of Zurich, son of the preceding. He took his father's place at the Zurich Mint, on the latter's death, and although it is possible that some of the Elder Gessner's dies remained in use after 1737, I should think the younger Gessner engraved the signed Half-thalers of Zurich, from 1739 to 1773 and other coins of that period. Amongst this engraver's best known works are : Medal on the Fourth Centenary of the Establishment of Guilds at Zurich...
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GHEELVOET, ARNOULD
GHEELVOET, ARNOULD (Belg.). Mentioned in 1567; died in 1571. Coin-engraver at Antwerp of the currency of Brabant and Guelders ; he succeeded Jerôme Van den Manacker, who, after the death of Jean Noster in 1564, had provisionally filled that office until 1567. Under Gheelvoet were struck the gold Real, the Half, Fifth, and Tenth silver Philippus Real; also Burgundian Daelders ; Philippus Daelders, and subdivisions, i. e. Half, Fifth, Tenth, Twentieth, and Fortieth Daelders. Pinchart quotes the fo...
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GHEELVOET, ARNOULD (Belg.). Mentioned in 1567; died in 1571. Coin-engraver at Antwerp of the currency of Brabant and Guelders ; he succeeded Jerôme Van den Manacker, who, after the death of Jean Noster in 1564, had provisionally filled that office until 1567. Under Gheelvoet were struck the gold Real, the Half, Fifth, and Tenth silver Philippus Real; also Burgundian Daelders ; Philippus Daelders, and subdivisions, i. e. Half, Fifth, Tenth, Twentieth, and Fortieth Daelders. Pinchart quotes the fo...
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