HANS BIENER. Mint-master at Dresden, 1556- 1604.
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.
GRÜNDLER, JOHANN JEREMIAS
GRÜNDLER, JOHANN JEREMIAS (Germ.). Mint-master at Strass berg, 1710-1747, and Sangerhausen, 1747-1750, in the County of Stolberg. He signed: I.I.G. on Thalers of Henry, Count of Mansfeld, 1747, and on currency of Anhalt-Bernburg. I have noticed Gründler's initials " Eintrachtsthaler", 1719, of Christopher Frederick and Jobst Christian, engraved by Christian Wermuth, Gulden of 1720 and 1729, Jubilee Thaler of 1730; Gulden and Half-gulden of Christopher Lewis II. of Stolberg and Frederick Botho of...
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GRÜNDLER, JOHANN JEREMIAS (Germ.). Mint-master at Strass berg, 1710-1747, and Sangerhausen, 1747-1750, in the County of Stolberg. He signed: I.I.G. on Thalers of Henry, Count of Mansfeld, 1747, and on currency of Anhalt-Bernburg. I have noticed Gründler's initials " Eintrachtsthaler", 1719, of Christopher Frederick and Jobst Christian, engraved by Christian Wermuth, Gulden of 1720 and 1729, Jubilee Thaler of 1730; Gulden and Half-gulden of Christopher Lewis II. of Stolberg and Frederick Botho of...
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GRUPELLO, GABRIEL DE
GRUPELLO, GABRIEL DE (ltal.). Sculptor and Medallist born at Grammont, 22. May 1644, died at Ehrenbreitstein, near Aix-la-Chapelle, 20. June 1730. He was of Italian origin. In 1673, he was appointed Master in the corporation of sculptors, and soon after he became Sculptor to King Charles II.and the city of Brussels; in 1695, he was appointed Sculptor to the Elector Palatine John William, for whom he worked at Düsseldorf, and in 1706, on the death of his protector, he returned to Belgium. The Emp...
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GRUPELLO, GABRIEL DE (ltal.). Sculptor and Medallist born at Grammont, 22. May 1644, died at Ehrenbreitstein, near Aix-la-Chapelle, 20. June 1730. He was of Italian origin. In 1673, he was appointed Master in the corporation of sculptors, and soon after he became Sculptor to King Charles II.and the city of Brussels; in 1695, he was appointed Sculptor to the Elector Palatine John William, for whom he worked at Düsseldorf, and in 1706, on the death of his protector, he returned to Belgium. The Emp...
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GRUTER, PIERRE DE
GRUTER, PIERRE DE (Belg.). Goldsmith, Coin, and Seal-engraver of Malines; another son of Antoine de Gruter. He was condemned to capital punishment in 1536 for having cut dies intended for striking imitations of English coins, "pour les crismes, délict et mésuz par lui comis et perpétrez d'avoir par deux fois gravé aucuns fers ? forgier monnoye d'Angleterre et iceulx délivré ? Martin Marmion, lequel en a usé, a estre eschaffauldé au-devant du palais, et illecq estre flatry an front de l'ung des f...
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GRUTER, PIERRE DE (Belg.). Goldsmith, Coin, and Seal-engraver of Malines; another son of Antoine de Gruter. He was condemned to capital punishment in 1536 for having cut dies intended for striking imitations of English coins, "pour les crismes, délict et mésuz par lui comis et perpétrez d'avoir par deux fois gravé aucuns fers ? forgier monnoye d'Angleterre et iceulx délivré ? Martin Marmion, lequel en a usé, a estre eschaffauldé au-devant du palais, et illecq estre flatry an front de l'ung des f...
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GUERINO, GIOVANNI
GUERINO, GIOVANNI (Ital.). Mint-engraver at Rome, 1548-1549. M. Eug. Müntz identified Giovanni Guerino with the celebrated Moderno, from a document of 1548, thus worded : 1548. 12 Septembre. Domino Johanni Guerino Moderno alme Urbis Zeccherio scuta centum de poulis X pro scuto, sine relentione, ad bonum computum sue provisionis occasione dicte Zecche. I shall return to this identification, when I come to the bio- graphical notice of MODERNO (q.v. infrâ). Bibliography. — Eug. Müntz, L'Alelier mon...
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GUERINO, GIOVANNI (Ital.). Mint-engraver at Rome, 1548-1549. M. Eug. Müntz identified Giovanni Guerino with the celebrated Moderno, from a document of 1548, thus worded : 1548. 12 Septembre. Domino Johanni Guerino Moderno alme Urbis Zeccherio scuta centum de poulis X pro scuto, sine relentione, ad bonum computum sue provisionis occasione dicte Zecche. I shall return to this identification, when I come to the bio- graphical notice of MODERNO (q.v. infrâ). Bibliography. — Eug. Müntz, L'Alelier mon...
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