ATELIER DE MONNAYAGE [COIN-MAKING WORKSHOP].
Atelier de Monnayage [Coin-making workshop].
Lithograph, hand-colored, 1848.
Image size 10 3/4 x 14 1/16" (27.3 x 35.8 cm).
Good condition, save some chipping in the outer margins. LOCATION: New York City
Inventory Number: 90806
Price: $365.00 Publisher : Published in Paris, L. Hachette & c. From "Notions Industrielles." Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie. a Paris. Lith de P. Bineteau, r. de L'Observance, 6.
This lithograph depicts a workshop in which coins are made. At the left a gentleman punches the coins out of metal sheets, in the background an individual is pouring molten metal into molds to form said sheets. In the mid-ground the coins are being stamped, and on the eight two people work to ready the metal sheets for stamping. 18th-19th Century Subjects , Trades And Industries , Miscellaneous Professions