cod. persona: 4174	status di approvazione: public
Nicolas Briot
Periodo di attività: 1579 – 1646		Sesso: M
Varianti del nome documentate:
- Nicholas Briot - Nicolas Briot
Il Forrer (1902-30, I, p. 286) riporta: Briot's first wife, Pauline Nisse, died in 1608; he remarried in 161 Esther Petau, who at his death in 1646 was left penniless; but on the Restoration of Charles II., she recovered the arrears due to her husband, amounting to 3000 l. Briot invented or improved a new method of striking coins and medals by the balance, "which made them more perfectly round than they had ever been before", and submitted it to the Paris Mint authorities as early as 1615, but disgusted at the treatment he received, and pressed hard by his creditors he fled to England, between September 16 and October 31, 1625, whereon 27. January 1633, he was appointed Chief-engraver to the Royal Mint, after having been employed at the Mint, at least since 1628, when he engraved coin-dies for Charles I. Between 1635 and 1639, he held the office of Master of the Mint in Scotland. During the Civil War, it is said he retired to Oxford, where he died in 1646. M. Mazerolle has established the fact that Briot had returned to France in 1642 or 1644, and came back to England very soon after. It is suggested that from 1642 to 1646, Briot followed the English King in his capacity of Engraver to York and to Oxford. Rymer, Foedera, XIX, 40, quotes the following record of the artist's appointment at the Mint: "On 16 Dec. 1628, the King granted him the privilege to be a free denizen, and also full power and authority to frame and engrave the first designs and effigies of the king's image in such size and forms as are to serve in all sorts of coins of gold and silver. ". Più oltre (V, p. 4), invece, riporta: 1579-1646. Medallist and Coin-engraver at Paris, London, Nancy, &c.

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Attività di zecca

(zecca della Scozia) 1635 – 1639 Maestro di zecca (zecca non precisata) 1606 Incisore (zecche della Lorena) 1611 – 1624 Incisore Charleville 1608 – 1615 Maestro di zecca Edinburgh 1646 Maestro di zecca Londra 1608 – 1646 Incisore Nancy 1582 – 1646 Incisore Parigi 1606 – 1646 Imprimeur en taille-douce et graveur des marques et effigies des monnaies de France [FR] Incisore Sedan 1612 – 1613 (non specificato)

Segni di zecca
(immagine non disponibile) B. F. incerto, 1608 – 1646 c. (immagine non disponibile) BR 1579 – 1646 (immagine non disponibile) N. B. incerto, 1579 – 1646 c.

Factoids
Morte, data 1646 Nascita, data 1579 Nascita, luogo Damblain (Lorena) Occupazione Medaglista

Relazioni con altre maestranze di zecca
Edinburgh insieme a John Falconer figlio di Didier Briot fratello di Isaac Briot suocero di John Falconer vedi anche Philippe Danfrie [2] Jean d'Armand Jean de Herre Nicolas Gennetaire Lucas Taschereau

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