Biographical dictionary of medallists: coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, &c., ancient and modern, with references to their works B. C. 500-A. D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer ...

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FLYNT, NICHOLAS (B.D.M., Vol. II, p. rr7). Court-favourite
of Henry VII, appointed on May 17, 1487, to the office of graver
of the irons for coining gold and silver within the Tower of London
and elsewhere in England, with a fee of f 20 yearly, the same as
had been paid to William Wodeward, his predecessor. In I490 he
received the additional offices of controller and surveyor of the
mints in Dublin and Waterford, during good pleasure. Symonds
states that " Flynt is entitled, nominally at all events, to the credit
of having produced the dies for the second or arched-crown
coinage of Henry VII's eighth year, but his tenure of the office
had ceased in, or just before, I494. His successor, Alexander de
Bruchsella, a goldsmith and an engraver of the first rank, introduced, among other changes, a profile head (in I503) which marks
the beginning of real portraiture upon our English currency."
Mr. C.F. Keary, in Coins and Medals (1894) describes this profile
portrait of the first of the Tudors as " being a work of the highest
art in its own kind. Nothing superior to it has appeared since ".
We are indebted to the researches of Mr. Henry Symonds for
Flynt's name, and those of several other artists who worked at the
Royal Mint during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I shall
refer more than once to Mr. Symonds' valuable contribution to the
Numiismatic Chronicle, I9r3, p. 349, sq. on " English Mint
Engravers of the Tudor and Stuart Periods, I485 to I688."
FOHMANN, HEINRICH (Germ.). Mint-warden at Lineburg, i58IT r624; acted in the same capacity and at the same time at
Winsen.
FOISIL, BELONI (B.D.M., Vol. II, p. 117). At the Salon of I899
this Medallist exhibited two medals.
FOLGER, NATHAN C. (zAmer.). Issuer of Advertising Checks (Store
Cards); born in Hudson, New York, in April i 8o; settled in
New Orleans I830; date of death unknown. Lyman H. Low in his
well-known work entitled " Hard Time Tokens" refers very briefly
to Folger, and states that the dies of his Store cards were made by
Bale and Smith. Mr. Edgar H. Adams in The Numisimatist (May 19 I 5,
pp. r69-173) describes six varieties of Tokens by Folger, all of
which have on obv. the American eagle. In the New Orleans Directory I858, we find Folger's advertisement as N.F. Folger & Son,
wholesale and retail dealers in men's fashionable clothing and plantation goods of every description, Corner Magazine and Gravier
Streets, New Orleans. The firm's name was changed later into
Folger and Blake.
A portrait of Folger is shown in the Nmnlismlalisl, I915, p. 69.
BIBLIOGRAPHY. - Edgar H. Adams, The Store Cards of Nathan C. Folgei oJ
New Orleans, La. Numismatist, I915.