Moneyers Guild

Introduction

As of July Coronation, AS 44 (July, 2009), The Moneyers' Guild is no longer an official guild of the kingdom of An Tir. The guild members continue as the An Tir branch of the Interkingdom Moneyer's Guild, and will continue to teach and practice the craft.

Minister of the Guild: Ian Cnulle

The Moneyers' Guild of An Tir exists to teach the craft of minting period style coins, medals and tokens using pre-industrial technologies. Additional goals are to disseminate knowledge about period money in general and to promote the use of period style tokens for a wide variety of functions. The Guild employs a formal structure of apprentices, journeymen, and mastercraftsmen (fellows). The Guild can provide educational and material resources to anyone practicing the craft within the Kingdom, and to people elsewhere in the Knowne Worlde through the Guild's affiliation with the Interkingdom Moneyers' Guild.

Individuals and branches desiring to have tokens or medals minted can contact individual members ofthe Guild for that purpose through the Guild

Guild Structure

The Moneyers' Guild has three levels:

• Apprentice - Can help with projects lead by Journeymen or Fellows.
• Journeyman - Can cut dies, create blanks, and strike coins without supervision.
• Fellow - Can teach the craft without supervision.

To become a Journeyman, an apprentice must do three things:

1. Make 100 acceptable blanks using "the old method" - by hand with a hammer.
2. Make their "mon" die - a personal die in the style of English voided long cross penny dies made in the reigns of Henry III and Edward I (1248-1272) to the guild standard of quality.
3. Swear the Journeyman's oath.

Journeymen must be able to perform the operations of die cutting, ingot casting, sheet metal forming, blank cutting, and coin striking with proficiency.

Journeymen are made Fellows of the guild at the discretion of the existing Fellows.

Text of the Guild's Royal Charter

CHARTA GELDONIAE MONETARIORUM AN TIRI:

Be it known to all that by this Charter the Moneyers' Guild of An Tir is recognized by the Crown as a Guild of the Kingdom of An Tir. The Moneyers Guild of An Tir shall advance and disseminate knowledge of period money throughout the populace: promote the use of period style coinage throughout the Kingdom and the Knowne Worlde: promote the production of period style coinage by period style methods: and serve the Crown of An Tir by providing presentation coinage for the use of Their Majesties. The Moneyers' Guild of An Tir shall enjoy all of the rights and privileges customarily attendant upon the status of being a Kingdom Guild Chartered by the Crown of An Tir. The Moneyers' Guild of An Tir shall establish craft-skill rankings and standards of workmanship, and engage in programs to pursue the herein stated goals, under the governance of officers as defined in the Guild's By-Laws.

By Our Hands, this third day of September, Anno Societatis XXIX,

Rorik, King An Tir Berengaria, Queen An Tir

(Charter returned July, AS 44)