Category: Numismatic
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Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal. (1863 – 1931)
Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal (1863 – 1931) was born in Melbourne, Australia. His father was an architectural sculptor and it was under him that Mackennal first studied. He later studied at the Melbourne School of Art and went to England to study the antique at the British Museum in 1883. The following year he entered…
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Sir Thomas Brock. (1847 – 1922)
The sculptor Thomas Brock was born in Worcester, and studied at the Royal Academy Schools from 1867. He had previously worked in the studio of the sculptor J. H. Foley, and when that artist died, Brock completed many of his unfinished commissions. This gave him a smooth route into respectability. He became ARA in 1883…
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William Wyon Birmingham (1795 – 1851)
If the many thousands of coin collectors in the United Kingdom were asked to nominate the three finest engravers ever to produce designs for the home coinage it is likely that William Wyon would find a place on everyone’s list. In his prolific output between 1816 and 1851 there is much to admire: the Three…
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Commonwealth Coin Designers and Engravers.
After over a thousand years and many changes in production techniques, the monarch continues to be depicted on the obverse of modern coinage. Certain traditions are observed in this representation. From the time of Charles II onwards a tradition developed of successive monarchs being represented on the coinage facing in the opposite direction to their…