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and our medals as good in Future as the State of our arts will admit of, it is suggested that a new office be instituted, under the name of medaller to the R. Mint, the office to be in the appointment of the Treasury, that a Responsibility may attach in the Case of its being incompetently Filld & to be held during Pleasure only in order that it may be Transferrd into the hands of a Superior artist if such a one Should appear.
The Salary should be merely honorary and a Fixed charge allowd for Each medal Requird & approved. * Thus would the Coins & the medals, & the great Seals, & the official Seals of the officers of State who use them would Reign their Patronage of naming their own Seal Cutters be executed in the best Stile of art that Can be obtaind & the time expended in the preparation of Dies when wanted, materials Abridgd, as the Die Sinkers at Present generaly waste as much time in attempting to Form & to Reform their design, as it afterwards Costs them to prepare the matrix
at present there are three Engravers in the mint Establishment, two of
* in the Reign of Ch 2nd at the time when the present Salaries of the mint officers were settled a Patent for £450 was Granted to Ratier a foreign Engraver to induce him to Come to England besides a Salary of £350 a year to him & £150 on each of his 3 sons