Coiner - The mint official in charge of stamping planchets into money.
Colonials - Generic term for coins made in or for America before the Federal Mint began regular operations.
Coiner Denomination True Value % of par
Dubosq & Co. $ 5 $ 5.00 100 %
Moffat & Co. 10 9.97 99.7
Baldwin & Co. 10 9.96 99.6
Dunbar & Co. 5 4.98 99.6
Schultz & Co. 5 4.97 99.4
Miner’s Bank 10 9.87 98.7 ...
Breen, Walter, A Coiner's Caviar, Encyclopedia of United States and Colonial Proof Coins, 1722-1989, Second revised edition by Bowers & Merena Galleries, Wolfeboro, NH, 1989.
The most productive coiner of Colorado gold was the firm of Clark, Gruber & Co. The company struck their first year's coins from unalloyed native gold, but soon found that they abraded too easily.
" department falls a letter written on December 14, 1871, by Chief Coiner Archibald Loudon Snowden to rare coin dealer Ebenezer Locke Mason, Jr.
They were generally left revolving through the night; and the coiners circulated the story that the devil came by at night to work for them. They also sometimes worked in masks to create a terror in the neighborhood.
Coiners Henry Voight and Adam Eckfeldt assisted in the preparation of the first dies, but it was not until August 1793 that the artist Joseph Wright was appointed as engraver.
The Assayer shall receive and give receipts for all metals which may lawfully be brought to the mint to be coined; shall assay all such of them as may require it, and shall deliver them to the Chief Coiner to be coined.
When the Greek cities were the coiners, of course the symbol of the city was the appropriate mark of coinage, and here the fine sense of the race found its opportunity to embody, in the purest form of decoration the world has ever seen, ...
If the dies are put into use after acquiring rust, the coiner would have to remove the rust from the die. If the rust pits are deep enough, sanding the face of the die to clean it up would possibly leave hair lines or pits if not sanded deep enough.
Congress had mandated that the Mint’s chief coiner and its assayer post $10,000 bonds before they could begin working with gold or silver. At the time, this amount was more than six times the annual salary of these positions.
There are misconceptions amongst amateur coiners that a coin must be shiny and bright for it to have value and appeal. After all, current new coin issues are brilliant and perfect.
This seated goddess device was first used by the Greeks and Romans in antiquity and adopted in the 17th century by English coiners to represent Britannia.
Although copper coinage commenced in 1793, gold coins were not minted until two years later, for the chief coiner and assayer each were required to post personal surety bonds in the amount of $10,000 before coinage of precious metals could commence.
(Adam Eckfeldt, Chief Coiner from 1814 to 1839 worked for the fledgling Mint in 1792 and was present for the striking of the 1792 half dismes.
Mint were a Director, an Assayer, a Chief Coiner, an Engraver, and a Treasurer (not the same as the Secretary of the Treasury. The Act allowed that one person could perform the functions of Chief Coiner and Engraver.
(Adam Eckfeldt, Chief Coiner from 1814 to 1839 worked for the fledgling Mint in 1792 and was present for the striking of the 1792 half dismes.
(Adam Eckfeldt, Chief Coiner from 1814 to 1839 worked for the fledgling Mint in 1792 and was present for the striking of the 1792 half dismes.
Henry Voight was the first Superintendent and Chief Coiner, and is credited with some of the very first coin designs.
(Adam Eckfeldt, Chief Coiner from 1814 to 1839 worked for the fledgling Mint in 1792 and was present for the striking of the 1792 half dismes.
Its beginnings were in the early days of the Mint, in 1792-93, when the Chief Coiner, Adam Eckfeldt, "led as well by his own taste as by the expectation that a conservatory would some day be established, ...
Early-mid 1800's private coiner, Dr. Lewis Feuchtwanger, introduced and tried to convince Congress to adopt an ALLOY he concocted called "German silver" which was essentially a white alloy of copper, nickel, zinc, ...
It is said that the dies were used by a coiner of the San Francisco Mint to strike two specimens in 1870. One of those was placed in a cornerstone of a public building of that city.
Moneyer - An authorized mint master or coiner.
Motto - An inspirational word or phrase used on a coin.
Mule - A coin struck from dies not originally intended to be used together.
As a result, coiners often used coin-producing metal dies until the metal fell apart.
In the United States, the US mint established a coin Cabinet in 1838 when chief coiner Adam Eckfeldt donated his personal collection. William E. Du Bois' Pledges of History. (1846) describes the cabinet.
I understand that both he and the coiner reside at a long distance from the mint-one 30 and the other 70 miles. Of course no efficient management can be carried on in this way.
An authorized mint master or coiner.
MONOCHROMATIC
Reference to toning on coins that is of a single colour.
Proof - A coin made from specially prepared dies and blank planchets. Proof coins are struck at least twice to fully bring out the design. Proofs are meant to be as near as possible to the top of the coiner's art.
Some found use in circulation, for in those days a coin was a coin regardless of who issued it, and the amount of metal it contained determined its value. The famous Pine Tree coinage was the last type in this four design series struck by coiner ...
Braad followed his own nose: merchants importune him in the street, a swirl of its dust blinds him, coiners at work in the mint catch his eye, he jots down funeral inscriptions in the European burial grounds, paces the town walls, ...
(Adam Eckfeldt, Chief Coiner from 1814 to 1839 worked for the fledgling Mint in 1792 and was present for the striking of the 1792 half dismes.
 See also: Mint, Struck, Coinage, Coin, Silver
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