moneyers

There is an unbroken link from the scattered workshops of the moneyers of Anglo-Saxon London to a single mint within the Tower of London, from a purpose-built premises at Tower Hill to the huge modern coining plant in South Wales.

Britannia Rules Again – New design offered by Royal Mint in Silver and Gold : Coin Collecting News 2008

There is an unbroken link from the scattered workshops of the moneyers of Anglo-Saxon London to a single mint within the Tower of London, from a purpose-built premises at Tower Hill to the huge modern coining plant in South Wales.

Royal Mint to offer 2008 UK Silver Proof Piedfort Four-Coin Collection : Coin Collecting News 2008

The palace had not been used by kings since the new keep had been built in the castle, Philip had been told, but the royal moneyers still minted silver pennies in the undercroft of the building, protected by thick walls and iron-barred gates.

The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

What the resources of Justinian and the Eastern Roman Empire had been unable to achieve, the moneyers of the late Middle Ages were able to underwrite.

God, Money, & the Crusades Becker, Marvin B. 1970

In this interesting work he describes, the trades of the moneyers (who controlled the mint), the coining of gold and silver into currency (for the making of coin in those days was permitted by individuals), the clasp makers, the makers of cups or hanaps, jewellers and harness makers, and other artificers.

Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

-- The _remedies_ are an allowance of one sixth of a carat, or forty grains, in the pound weight of gold, and of two pennyweights in that of silver, considered either as to fineness or weight, or both of them taken together; the moneyers are, however, at this time so expert, that these quantities are much greater than are necessary.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828 Various

Athelstan appointed moneyers or minters throughout the country, he assigned eight (the largest number of all) to London, whilst for

London and the Kingdom - Volume I

Athelstan, his grandson, London required as many as eight moneyers, to produce the necessary coinage.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

_Item_: We ordain and command that our president and auditors and the ordinary magistrates of our said Yndias, where there shall be a mint, shall have jurisdiction over all crimes of falsification of money committed by the moneyers although they be committed within the mint.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 05 of 55 1582-1583 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century Various 1906

Under Æthelstan, London had eight moneyers or mint-masters, while Winchester had only six, and

Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Grant Allen 1873