Hello
can mint masters be added to the database without a specific mark?
Mint masters were often in charge of designing or engraving coins, or supervising the process, but they did not necessarily sign the dies.
For example, these would be the ones for Luzern:
Thomas Motz; Mint master; 1422-1424;
Stephan Telsperg; Mint master; 1471
Caspar Stutzenberg; Mint master; 1481-1500
Simon Roll; Mint master; 1512-1517
Gorius Roll; Mint master; circa 1520-1529, 1532-1535, 1538-1539
Stoffel Ruß; Mint master; 1529, 1536-1537
Niklaus Koch; Mint master; 1540-1541
Adolf Melchior von Moos; Mint master; 1544-1550
Hans Endris; Mint master; 1550-circa 1558
Niklaus Koch; Mint master; 1558-1559
Jakob Wonlich; Mint master; 1562-1567
Onofrius Wonlich; Mint master; 1567-1575
Joseph Egli; Mint master; 1575-1579
Egli; Mint master (woman); 1579-1580
Tilman Ippentanz; Mint master; 1581-1587
Rudolf Pfyffer; Mint master; 1588-1589
Rochus Rooter; Mint master; 1588-1589
Christian Meißberger; Mint master; 1592-1594
Caspar Futter; Mint master; 1597-1607
Caspar Studer; Mint master; 1607-1619
Jost Hartmann; Mint master; 1620-1673
Hans Georg Krauer; Mint master; 1673-1687
Franz Melchior Hertenstein; Mint master; 1687-1699
Hans Wilhelm Krauer; Mint master; 1713-1715
Franz Karl Krauer; Mint master; 1724-1728
Joseph Keiser; Mint master; 1774-1791
Paul Keiser; Mint master; 1774-1791
Franz Karl Bucheli; Mint master; 1793-1798
David Anton Städelin; Mint master; 1803-1813
Georg Joseph Schnyder; Mint master; 1813-1814
Ludwig Meyer von Schauensee; Mint master; 1815-1825
Rennward Göldlin von Tieffenau; Mint master; 1826-1846
