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Pierre Patrix, seigneur de Sainte-Marie, Norman gentleman (1583 – 6 October 1671), was a French poet. Patrix was born in 1583 at Caen ( Normandy ) from Claude Patrix, councilor to the bailiwick of the city and Margaret Bourgueville.
The matrix is an "original die": indeed it has its design in the same sense as a die.The design is incised into the matrix, which is used to create punches.The creation of a matrix addresses the basic problem for the coinage of multiplying dies, i.e. having enough accurate copies of dies to produce long runs of essentially identical coins.