# Moneyer

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{{Short description|Private individual officially permitted to mint money}}
[[File:Lucius Scribonius Libo, denarius, 62 BC, RRC 416-1a.jpg|thumb|[Denarius](/source/Denarius) of [Republican](/source/Roman_Republic) moneyer [Lucius Scribonius Libo](/source/Lucius_Scribonius_Libo) struck in 62 BC]]
{{Numismatics}}
A '''moneyer''' is a private individual who is officially permitted to mint [money](/source/money). Usually the rights to coin money are bestowed as a [concession](/source/Concession_(contract)) by a state or government.  Moneyers have a long tradition, dating back at least to [ancient Greece](/source/ancient_Greece). They became most prominent in the [Roman Republic](/source/Roman_Republic), and continued into the [Empire](/source/Roman_Empire).  In Rome the position of [Triumvir Monetalis](/source/Triumvir_Monetalis), held by three people at a time, was a minor magistracy awarded by the Senate, often the first office held by young politicians, including [Marcus Aurelius](/source/Marcus_Aurelius).{{Citation needed|date=December 2022}}

Moneyers were not limited to the ancient world. During the Middle Ages, European moneyers created currency on behalf of kings and potentates.<ref>Philip Grierson, Philip Raymond Grierson, Mark Blackburn, 2007. Medieval European Coinage: The Early Middle Ages (5th-10th Centuries). Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-521-03177-6}}</ref><ref>Brooke, G. C. "[http://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/pdfs/1931_BNJ_21_4.pdf The Medieval Moneyers]". ''British Numismatic Journal''. 1931 ('''21''')</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.medievalchronicles.com/medieval-people/medieval-tradesmen-and-merchants/medieval-moneyer-just-add-images/|title = Medieval Moneyer}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oldcurrencyexchange.com/2014/06/17/how-hammered-coins-were-made-in-medieval-times-a-video-blog/|title = How hammered coins were made in medieval times (A video blog)|date = 17 June 2014}}</ref>  For a large part of that era, virtually all coins in circulation were silver pennies, and these often bore the name or other identification of the moneyer.<ref>Grierson et al. 2007</ref> In 17th century North America, [John Hull](/source/John_Hull_(merchant)) acted as a moneyer for the [Massachusetts Bay Colony](/source/Massachusetts_Bay_Colony).{{Citation needed|date=December 2022}}

==See also==
{{Portal|Money}}
*[Roman currency](/source/Roman_currency)
**[List of Roman moneyers during the Republic](/source/List_of_Roman_moneyers_during_the_Republic)
*[Roman Republic](/source/Roman_Republic)
*[Roman Republican coinage](/source/Roman_Republican_coinage)
*[Vigintisexviri](/source/Vigintisexviri)

==Notes==
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==Further reading==
*Harlan, Michael (1995). ''Roman Republican Moneyers and their Coins 63 BC-49 BC'', Trafalgar Square Publishing. {{ISBN|0-7134-7672-9}}
*Harlan, Michael (2012). ''Roman Republican Moneyers and their Coins 81 BCE-64 BCE'', Moneta Publications. {{ISBN|978-0-9654567-0-8}}
*Sear, David R. (1998). ''The History and Coinage of the Roman Imperators 49-27 B.C.'', Spink & Son. {{ISBN|0-907605-98-2}}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070311024814/http://ancientworlds.net/aw/Post/155445 Hollander, David B (2003). The Management of the Mint in the Late Roman Republic]
*[http://www.sibrium.org/en/Eligivs ''Eligivs''. A prosopography of the mint workers] {{in lang|it}}
* https://coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoinIntros/MAMintDocs.studies.html

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