Briot was recalled to England by the king and was appointed chief engraver to the Royal Mint in 1633.

This particular coin once belonged to John R. Sinnock, who was chief engraver at the Mint during the war.

On 13 Oct. 1815 he was appointed chief engraver to the mint, being then only twenty-three.

Also employed at the Murray firm from 1816 was the man who would be Longacre's predecessor as chief engraver, Christian Gobrecht.

In Longacre's first years as chief engraver, no original designs were required for coins.

He succeeded Jean Lagrange as chief engraver of the Paris mint in 1896, a position he held until his death.

This diework was the technique his father and predecessor as chief engraver had used; it was also the way Charles Barber preferred to work.

Mint master marks or privy marks are symbols representing directors, chief engravers or chief executive officers of mints.

Coinage redesign was being considered during Barber's early years as chief engraver.

In only four years, from 1811 to 1815, he rose at the Royal Mint from a probationer to chief engraver.