Chief Engraver of the Royal Mint is a senior position at the British Royal Mint who is responsible for overseeing the preparation of coin dies.
List of chief engravers
PeriodChief EngraverNotes1060s?Theobald of Lisson GreenCutter of the Dies of All EnglandMartin Allen, Mints and Money in Medieval England, pp.117-1221090s–1100sOtto the GoldsmithOfficer of the Dies1100s–?Otto FitzOtto?–1160sWilliam FitzOtto1160s–1194Otto FitzWilliam1194–1214William FitzOtto1214–1257Otto FitzWilliam1257–1265William FitzOtto1265–1274Thomas FitzOttoSerjeant of the Dies1274–1282Otto FitzOttoSerjeant of the Dies1282–1283Guy FerreSerjeant of the Dies1285–1324John de Botetourt, 1st Baron BotetourtSerjeant of the Dies1324–1335William Latimer, 3rd Baron LatimerSerjeant of the Dies1335–1379William Latimer, 4th Baron LatimerSerjeant of the Dies1379–1386William GeytonEngraver of the Tower Mint1386–1388William PevereEngraver of the Tower Mint1388–?John EdmundEngraver of the Tower Mint1421–1431Gilbert of BrandenburgEngraver of the Tower Mint1431–1445John OrwellEngraver of the Tower Mint1445–1452Thomas WythialeEngraver of the Tower Mint1452–1462William WodewardeEngraver of the Tower Mint1462–1483Edmund ShaaEngraver of the Tower MintC. E. Challis, The Tudor Coinage1483–1485John ShaaEngraver of the Tower Mint1485–1492Nicholas FlyntEngraver of the Tower Mint1494–1509Alexander BruchsalEngraver of the Tower Mint1510–1519John SharpEngraver of the Tower Mint1519–1536Henry NorrisEngraver of the Tower Mint1536–1544Thomas WriotheselyEngraver of the Tower Mint1544–1550Henry BayseLeonard Forrer, Biographical Dictionary of Medallists1550–1551Robert Pitt1552–1596Derek Anthony1596–1615Charles Anthony1615–1618Thomas Anthony1618–1624William Holle1625–1628John Gilbert and Edward GreenJoint positions1628–1644Edward Green1645–1648Thomas Simon and Edward WadeJoint positions1645–1649Thomas RawlinsAppointed by King Charles I1649–1660Thomas Simon 1660–1670Thomas Rawlins1670–1689John Roettiers1689–1690George Bower1690–1704Henry Harris1705–1741John CrokerWarwick William Wroth, 'Croker, John (1670–1741)' in Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 131741–1773John Sigismund TannerChristopher Edgar Challis, A New History of The Royal Mint (1992), p. 4091773–1779Richard Yeo1779–1815Lewis Pingo1815–1817Thomas Wyon1817–1821Post vacant1821–1828Benedetto PistrucciSubsequently, became Chief Medallist at the mint1828–1851William Wyon Leonard Charles Wyon appointed Second Engraver at the mint in 1843.1851–1891Leonard Charles WyonModeler and Engraver of the Royal Mint1892–1903George William de SaullesEngraver of the Royal Mintas of 1960Walter Newman1970sEric Sewell1979–1998Hubert Theodore Elsasser1998-2004Marcel Canioni2004–2011Matthew Bonnacorsi2011–presentGordon Summers
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