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<p>[QUOTE="AnYangMan, post: 4889553, member: 87271"]Interesting! The thing is that Donatus is never actually mentioned as being a mintmaster or moneyer; only his brother, Jacobus Mulekyn of Florence, is known to have been a moneyer at the Edinburgh mint. Donatus does appear in the mint accounts in 1364, the same in which Bonagio is also mentioned, but not as a moneyer. Rather, he was paid a sum of money ‘pro diversis artificiis factis ad usum regis’. A very vague account, which, if stretched to an extreme degree, could be interpreted as him having to do something with the mint. Creating jewellery (mintmasters' families, especially those 'imported' from italy, often also contained goldsmiths) for personal use by the royal family is in my opinion a more logical explanation, but who knows![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="AnYangMan, post: 4889553, member: 87271"]Interesting! The thing is that Donatus is never actually mentioned as being a mintmaster or moneyer; only his brother, Jacobus Mulekyn of Florence, is known to have been a moneyer at the Edinburgh mint. Donatus does appear in the mint accounts in 1364, the same in which Bonagio is also mentioned, but not as a moneyer. Rather, he was paid a sum of money ‘pro diversis artificiis factis ad usum regis’. A very vague account, which, if stretched to an extreme degree, could be interpreted as him having to do something with the mint. Creating jewellery (mintmasters' families, especially those 'imported' from italy, often also contained goldsmiths) for personal use by the royal family is in my opinion a more logical explanation, but who knows![/QUOTE]
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