Catalogue Entry: MINT00768
Memorandum deploring the poor state of Mint engraving and suggesting various strategies for improving it
Contents
A higher salary is needed to attract the best engravers. A collection of ancient and modern medals and other designs should be housed in the engravers' office. Engravers and probationers should be given time to study at the 'Academy of Drawing and Embossing att Paris'.
Related Material
Another copy in PRO, T1/192, no. 75: on the reverse of this is a Treasury minute on the appointment [presumably re-appointment] of John Croker as senior engraver, dated 25 October 1715.
