Copyist Público Deposited
- Copyist. In engraving, a person who copies a coin or medal; one who duplicates a die (but not by hubbing). Copyists can be counterfeiters, legitimate diesinkers (or the person who issues the pieces). Their legal status depends upon their intent. See copies and replicas. Some famous American copyists who reproduced Colonial American coins include Dr. Montroville Wilson Dickeson (a medical doctor who collected and wrote on American coins), John Adams Bolen (a diesinker), Alfred S. Robinson and Thomas L. Elder (both coin dealers). See struck copy.References: NC8 {1952} Kenny.
excerpted with permission from
An Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Technology
For Artists, Makers, Collectors and Curators
COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY D. WAYNE JOHNSON
Roger W. Burdette, Editor