Mint Master Marks and Privy Marks
Mint master marks or privy marks are symbols representing directors, chief engravers or chief executive officers of mints.
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Famous quotes containing the words master, marks and/or privy:
“Better to master a small skill than to accumulate a big fortune.”
—Chinese proverb.
“I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience—it also marks the time, which is four o’clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)
“Before me you are a slug in the sun. You are privy to a great becoming and you recognize nothing. You are an ant in the afterbirth. It is in your nature to do one thing correctly: tremble.”
—Michael Mann, U.S. screenwriter. Frances Dollarhyde, aka “The Tooth Fairy” (Tom Noonan)