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The E-Sylum: Volume 24, Number 2, January 10, 2021, Article 14

VIDEO: DICK JOHNSON LECTURE ON MEDAL ARTISTS

These are selections from the David Lisot Video Library that feature news and personalities from the world of coin collecting. David has been attending coin conventions since 1972 and began videotaping in 1985. The Newman Numismatic Portal now lists all David's videos on their website at:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/multimediadetail/522852

Here's a recorded lecture by the late Dick Johnson. -Editor

What I Learned from 3000 Coin and Medal Artists
Speaker: Richard Wayne "Dick" Johnson

The creation of coins and medals spanning 350 years in America has taught the speaker the importance of changing technology in the field. For 200 years it was the hand engraver, but since 1900 it is the sculptor who creates these objects we collect. In this lecture-only video you will learn about:

Johnson lecture 3000 medal artists

  1. The technology changes that have influenced medal production
  2. How Victor David Brenner was pivotal in these changes
  3. America's first coin struck in 1652
  4. Different kinds of engravers
  5. History of U.S. Mint engravers and the coin presses used
  6. Europe's engraving technology and how it was brought back to America
  7. Early American engraving firms
  8. How the Civil War was a boom time for engravers
  9. The Columbian Exposition and the plethora of coins and medals produced
  10. Conclusions about engraving in general

A book has been written that complements the information in this video. Videotaped at the American Numismatic Association Convention in 2002.

To watch the video on NNP
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/557085

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Wayne Homren, Editor

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