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  2. Master of the Mint - Wikipedia

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    Master of the Mint is a title within the Royal Mint given to the most senior person responsible for its operation. It was an office in the governments of Scotland and England , and later Great Britain and then the United Kingdom , between the 16th and 19th centuries.

  3. Münzmeister - Wikipedia

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    The northern Italian city-states, on the other hand, did not lease their mints, but employed elected mint masters as officials. The mint master's assistant was sworn in like the mint master in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. He possessed special rights and was referred to as the Münzohm, Münzgeselle or Reichsohm. [1]

  4. John Acheson (goldsmith) - Wikipedia

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    James Acheson, who became Master of the Mint, and married Mary Bowie. [28] In 1598 James Acheson and an English man, Gavin Smith, received a patent for various new kind of pumps for draining mines and coal workings. [29] Elene or Helen Acheson (d. 1584), who married the merchant William Birnie, and secondly, Archibald Stewart, Provost of Edinburgh.

  5. William Sharington - Wikipedia

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    Despite its title, this position was in effect that of master of the mint, and it carried a salary of 200 marks (or £133 6s 8d) a year. With a staff of six men, including an engraver, Bristol was the only mint outside London to make gold coins, and also the only one apart from that at the Tower of London to have its own

  6. John York (Master of the Mint) - Wikipedia

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    In 1544 he was appointed assay master to the Mint. In 1547 he was promoted to be Master of the Mint at Southwark, established in the former mansion of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. In 1549, he was sheriff of London. In October of this year the quarrel had broken out between the Protector Somerset and John Dudley, Earl of Warwick.

  7. Henry Slingsby (Master of the Mint) - Wikipedia

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    Sir Henry Slingsby (c.1621 – c.1688) was an English Master of the Mint. He was the third son of Sir William Slingsby of Kippax, West Yorkshire and was educated at Exeter College, Oxford. He was appointed Deputy Master of the Mint (based in the Tower of London) to Sir Ralph Freeman from 1662 to 1667 and sole Master from 1667 to 1680. Slingsby ...

  8. Category:Masters of the Mint - Wikipedia

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  9. United States Mint - Wikipedia

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    The United States Mint is a bureau of the Department of the Treasury responsible for producing coinage for the United States to conduct its trade and commerce, as well as controlling the movement of bullion. [1] The U.S. Mint is one of two U.S. agencies that manufactures physical money.