Excerpt from Anton Tucher the Elder's letter to Friedrich the Wise regarding the production of coiner's dies.

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Production date: 1510 September 30

Repository: Thüringisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar
Location / Date: Nuremberg, the Monday after St Michael's day in the year ten

Signature: Ernestinisches Gesamtarchiv, Reg. Aa 2299, Bl. 41r/v.

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Ernestinisches Gesamtarchiv, Reg. Aa 2299, Bl. 41r/v.

CDA ID: DE_ThHStAW_EGA_Reg-Aa_2299_41r_v
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_ThHStAW_EGA_Reg-Aa_2299_41r_v/

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411, no. 40

Author	Gunnar Heydenreich
Title	Lucas Cranach the Elder
Place of Publication	Amsterdam
Year of Publication	2007
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Publication	in Heinz Lüdecke, ed., Lucas Cranach der Ältere. Der Künstler und seine Zeit
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Excerpt from Anton Tucher the Elder's letter to Friedrich the Wise regarding the production of coiner's dies., 1510 September 30

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[ab Bl. 41r unten]
... So hat mir Hirßfelt in kurz v[er]gangen tagen neben seinem schreyben ew[er] f[urstlichen] g[naden] pyldnuß durch Luchas Maler seer wol gemacht uberschickt, die hab ich de[m] eyßengraber peyhenndig geben, der hat ein eyßen darnach abgemacht und doch das noch pisher nit hertten wollen so lang pis ewr gnad duch Luchaß Maler das besichtiget, ob ayniger Mangel daran befund[en] vnd mir angeczeigt wurd, so mag er es pessern. Schick hierzu sobalt ewrn g[naden] ein abdruck davo[n] auf einer pircken rintten das ist meines ansehens wol und dem czugeschickten Muster gancz gemeß gemacht. Dapey noch ein Muster vo[n] dem eyßen zw dem halben guld[en] gehorende Ansicht, ...

Transcription by: Heydenreich, Gunnar; Lücke, Dietrich; Lücke, Monika
Transcription Date: 2014

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The letter from Anton Tucher in Nuremberg to the elector of Saxony discusses the quality and amount of newly minted coins as well as the procedure of transfer and payment. One passage refers to Lucas Cranach, who had created a portrait of the elector to be used by the die cutter as a model for a coin die. The die is finished, and must first be annealed if no further alterations are required. Tucher enclosed an imprint on birch bark for appraisal in this letter.

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