Person
Name	Scharff, Anton Karl Rudolf (10.06.1845 Wien - 05.07.1903 Brunn)
	Austrian medalist and die-engraver. Like his father Johann Michael, Anton Scharff studied at the Medailleurschule of the Akademie der Bildenden Künste. In 1866 he was appointed engraver at the Vienna Hauptmünzamt. Scharff produced a huge number of portrait medals. When in 1892 Austria introduced the Kronen currency it was Scharff who desigend the first coins. Anton Scharff died on 5 July 1903 in Brunn am Gebirge (Niederösterreich). Lit.: K. Schulz, Der Medailleur Anton Scharff (1845-1903), Numismatische Zeitschrift 104/105, 1997, pp. 31-36.
Types	Die-cutter , Medalist , Sitter
GND	https://d-nb.info/gnd/117108901
Wikipedia [de]	https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Scharff
VIAF	https://viaf.org/viaf/47531368
Wikidata	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q593777
Permalink	https://ikmk.smb.museum/ndp/person/3429
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Person

Name

Scharff, Anton Karl Rudolf (10.06.1845 Wien - 05.07.1903 Brunn)

Austrian medalist and die-engraver.

Like his father Johann Michael, Anton Scharff studied at the Medailleurschule of the Akademie der Bildenden Künste. In 1866 he was appointed engraver at the Vienna Hauptmünzamt.

Scharff produced a huge number of portrait medals. When in 1892 Austria introduced the Kronen currency it was Scharff who desigend the first coins.

Anton Scharff died on 5 July 1903 in Brunn am Gebirge (Niederösterreich).

Lit.: K. Schulz, Der Medailleur Anton Scharff (1845-1903), Numismatische Zeitschrift 104/105, 1997, pp. 31-36.

Types

Die-cutter

, Medalist

, Sitter

GND

https://d-nb.info/gnd/117108901