Emil Weigand (20 November 1837 in Berlin – 25 March 1906 in Berlin) was a German medalist and coin die cutter.
Weigand was the son of the engraver Cuno Weigand. He first attended the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster and then began an apprenticeship with his father. At the same time he was a student at the Berlin Art Academy and later completed the academic engraving school under Karl Johann Fischer. From 1863 to 1866 he worked in the studio of Alfred Benjamin Wyon in London. From 1866 he was employed at the Royal Mint in Berlin. On February 11, 1867 he became the second mint medalist and in 1887 the successor to the first mint medalist Friedrich Wilhelm Kullrich at the Berlin Mint, which in the meantime operated as the Prussian State Mint. For the next two years, the position of second medalist was vacant. During his time at the mint, he designed coins for several entities, including Anhalt, German West Africa, Egypt, Germany, Hamburg, Lübeck, Mexico, Morocco, and Prussia. Weigand worked for this institution for 39 years and retired on 1st. April 1905.
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