Person
Name	Leer, Jacob
	The Seal and Coat of Arms engraver Jacob Leer was appointed in 1659 as die cutter for the Cologne Circle, Germany. In May 1680 Jacob Leer was admonished by the Lower Rhine-Westphalia Circle for cutting dies for the Cologne Archbishopric Mintmaster in Dorsten without permission. Leer was most likely the die cutter for an Archbishopric of Cologne 1693 gulden because of the similarity with the workmanship on a ducat that he cut. Noted by Scheffler (1973) as Jacobus Leher with the alternative names Leer, Lyher and Lier. Lit.: A. Noss, Die Münzen der Städte Köln und Neuss: 1474-1794 (1926) pp. 47-49, 240, 286; W. Scheffler, Goldschmiede Rheinland-Westfalens - Aachen - Köln (1973) p. 527 no. 1486.
Types	Die-cutter
Nomisma	https://nomisma.org/id/jacob_leer_colonia_claudia_ara_agrippinensium
Permalink	https://ikmk.smb.museum/ndp/person/7625
created	10.05.2024
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Person

Name

Leer, Jacob

The Seal and Coat of Arms engraver Jacob Leer was appointed in 1659 as die cutter for the Cologne Circle, Germany. In May 1680 Jacob Leer was admonished by the Lower Rhine-Westphalia Circle for cutting dies for the Cologne Archbishopric Mintmaster in Dorsten without permission. Leer was most likely the die cutter for an Archbishopric of Cologne 1693 gulden because of the similarity with the workmanship on a ducat that he cut.

Noted by Scheffler (1973) as Jacobus Leher with the alternative names Leer, Lyher and Lier.

Lit.: A. Noss, Die Münzen der Städte Köln und Neuss: 1474-1794 (1926) pp. 47-49, 240, 286; W. Scheffler, Goldschmiede Rheinland-Westfalens - Aachen - Köln (1973) p. 527 no. 1486.

Types

Die-cutter

Nomisma

https://nomisma.org/id/jacob_leer_colonia_claudia_ara_agrippinensium

Permalink

https://ikmk.smb.museum/ndp/person/7625

created

10.05.2024

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