VIDEO: DICK JOHNSON LECTURE ON MEDAL ARTISTS
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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 beganvideotaping 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 itis the sculptor who creates these objects we collect. In this lecture-only video you will learn about:
- The technology changes that have influenced medal production
- How Victor David Brenner was pivotal in these changes
- America's first coin struck in 1652
- Different kinds of engravers
- History of U.S. Mint engravers and the coin presses used
- Europe's engraving technology and how it was brought back to America
- Early American engraving firms
- How the Civil War was a boom time for engravers
- The Columbian Exposition and the plethora of coins and medals produced
- 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