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    William Wyon RA (Birmingham 1795 – 29 October 1851), was official chief engraver at the Royal Mint from 1828 until his death. Indian rupee engraved by...
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  • (1792–1817), British engraver William Wyon (1795–1851), British engraver Benjamin Wyon (1802–1858), British engraver Leonard Charles Wyon (1826–1891), British...
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    ISBN 978-0-304-35873-1. Nicholas Carlisle; William Wyon (1837). A memoir of the life and works of William Wyon. W. Nichol. p. 111. Kindleberger, Charles...
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    contract. Although there were calls for a public competition, William Wyon's son, Leonard Charles Wyon was chosen to execute the new design. Both the Queen and...
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    The eldest son of chief engraver William Wyon and his wife, Catherine Sophia, née Keele (d. 1851), Leonard Charles Wyon was born in one of the houses in...
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    of the most beautiful British coins ever struck. It was designed by William Wyon in 1839, to commemorate the beginning of Queen Victoria's reign (in 1837)...
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    further work on the coinage. Second Engraver (later Chief Engraver) William Wyon was assigned to translate Chantrey's bust into a coin design, and the...
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  • work on the coinage for refusing to copy the work of another artist. William Wyon was given the task of engraving what became the more flattering "bare...
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    be minted after 1797, through the reigns of George III, George IV and William IV, and the early reign of Queen Victoria. These later coins were smaller...
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    with the last using the well-regarded depiction of Una and the Lion by William Wyon. Although the Una coin was for sale for almost half a century at the...
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  • George Wyon, as well as the brother of Thomas Wyon, with whom he went into business for a short time. Both his nephew, Thomas Wyon, and his son, William Wyon...
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    Thomas Hugh Paget Leonard Charles Wyon William Wyon Of postage stamps: Czesław Słania Leonard Charles Wyon William Wyon Of pins: Godfrey Lundberg (1879–1933)...
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    half farthings during the reign of William IV in 1837. The obverse bore a right-facing portrait of William IV by Wyon with the legend GULIELMUS IIII DEI...
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    trident, and helm, was created by Leonard Charles Wyon based on an earlier design by his father, William Wyon. The coins were also used in British colonies...
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    was engraved by Pistrucci's assistant, Jean Baptiste Merlen, and by William Wyon; Pistrucci was thereafter excluded from work on the coinage. The Mint...
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    Corbould's sketch was in turn based on the 1834 cameo-like head by William Wyon, which was used on a medal to commemorate the Queen's visit to the City...
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    Wyon (1826–1891) Peter Wyon (1797–1822) George Wyon (1771) -M- Elizabeth Phillips James Wyon (1804–1868) George William Wyon (1836–1862) Henry Wyon (1834–1856)...
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    shield, engraved by William Wyon, possibly based on a design by Pistrucci, though the numismatic scholar, Howard Linecar, stated that Wyon was also responsible...
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  • London. Wyon was the father of Thomas Wyon the younger, Benjamin Wyon, and Edward William Wyon the sculptor. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1900). "Wyon, Thomas (1767-1830)" ...
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    Benjamin Wyon (1837 – 1884) Joseph Shepherd Wyon (1836 – 1873) Leonard Charles Wyon (1826 – 1891) Thomas Wyon the elder (1767 – 1830) Thomas Wyon the younger...
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  • Thomas Wyon the Younger (1792 – 22/23 September 1817) was an English medallist and chief engraver at the Royal Mint. Wyon was born in Birmingham. He was...
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  • dragon, based on the reverse of a personal medal originally made by William Wyon for Albert, Prince Consort. Lakicevic, the co-inventor of the product...
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    same size and weight standard in 1835 and 1844, bearing William Wyon's obverse portraits of William IV and Queen Victoria, respectively. In 1866, third farthings...
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    also produced bronze proofs in 1868. The obverse of the coins used William Wyon's obverse die for the Maundy twopence, bearing a left-facing portrait...
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    king, George VI, asked for a modification of the original RNLI medal by William Wyon, from 1824. The obverse from that time onwards had shown the head of...
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    designed by the Chief Engraver of the Royal Mint, William Wyon, while the reverse of both was designed by William Dyce. Unlike the crown's Gothic script, the...
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    process of steel engraving, and the head of the Queen as engraved by William Wyon for a special medal struck to celebrate Her Majesty's official visit...
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    Wyon & Wyon 1887, pp. 79–81. Wyon & Wyon 1887, pp. 82–90. Wyon & Wyon 1887, pp. 90–94. Wyon & Wyon 1887, pp. 95–97. Wyon & Wyon 1887, p. 98. Wyon &...
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    Royal Mint's modeller and engraver, Leonard Charles Wyon (William's son) prepare steel coinage dies. Wyon did so, and pattern coins were struck several times...
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  • Edward Alexander Wyon (1842; London – 1872; Hastings) was a London architect and poet, descended from the Wyon family of engravers. His only known building...
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