Notes on a Collection of Coining Instruments in the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh

Abstract

This collection includes a coinage die of the fourteenth century, a medal die of the\r\nsixteenth century, and a considerable number of both coinage and medal dies of the seventeenth century. The collection contains in all 163 matrices, puncheons, and dies which can be divided into those for coins, medals, tradesmen's tokens and sundry small punches.