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moneyer::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | coiner, minter |
| Type of | skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker |
| Derivation | money |
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It is clear that the moneyer had no understanding of Arabic as the Arabic text contains many errors.
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A moneyer is someone who physically creates money.
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Although many of the coins bear the name of a moneyer, there is no indication of the mint where each coin was struck.
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These were small silver pennies, which often did not bear the name of either the moneyer or the king for whom they were produced.
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While not every coin issued featured references to an ancestor of a moneyer, the number of references increased and the depictions became more and more of current interest.
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Offa's queen, Cynethryth, was the only Anglo-Saxon queen ever named or portrayed on the coinage, in a remarkable series of pennies struck by the moneyer Eoba.
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On Roman coins, the lituus is frequently accompanied by a ritual jug or pitcher to indicate that either the moneyer or person honored on the obverse was an augur.
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- Coiner: a skilled worker who coins or stamps money
- A moneyer is someone who physically creates money. Moneyers have a long tradition, dating back at least to ancient Greece. They became most prominent, however, in the Roman Republic, continuing into the empire.
- An authorized mint master or coiner.
- A person licensed by the crown to strike coins, receiving the dies from the king, and keeping 1/240 of the money coined for himself.
- Etymology: Middle English, from Old French monier, from Late Latin monetarius master of a mint, coiner, from monetarius of a mint
- Moneyers or 'coiners' were people licensed by the crown to strike coins using dies supplied by the government; there was a Saxon mint outside Stafford which was named Monetvile (i.e. 'money-town') during Domesday.
