Joseph Moore (medallist)

Born in Birmingham, Joseph Moore was apprenticed at a young age to diesinker Thomas Halliday.

While engaged in his apprenticeship and working as a buttonmaker, he studied in his own time to gain the skills of a medallist.

[1] For some time he was in a partnership, Allen and Moore in Birmingham, thought by some to be the best medallists of the later nineteenth century.

[2] He also created model coins for the denominations ⁠1/32⁠, ⁠1/16⁠, ⁠1/8⁠, ⁠1/4⁠, and ⁠1/2⁠ farthing, mille, ⁠1/2⁠ penny, florin, and crown.

For half a century he engraved medals and furnished designs for exhibitions in India, Canada, America, Australia, for universities, or in commemoration of events.