assayer
Example Sentences
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A whistleblower, mine assayer David Fingado, disclosed the mine was meritless to CNN.
From Salon • Mar. 12, 2022
The King is played in the film by Michael Shannon, a frequent assayer of the quirky and the offbeat in movies.
From Washington Times • Apr. 19, 2016
“It’s one of the first $50 gold coins Augustus Humbert struck when he was appointed U.S. assayer in San Francisco in 1851.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2011
"It's one of the first $50 gold coins Augustus Humbert struck when he was appointed U.S. assayer in San Francisco in 1851."
From Seattle Times • Nov. 28, 2011
Somehow he and his partners had discovered a lost Spanish mine and did not know its value on account of some trickery of an assayer.
From Where Strongest Tide Winds Blew by McReynolds, Robert
