Thomas Pingo was an English medal

Medal

A medal, or medallion, is generally a circular object that has been sculpted, molded, cast, struck, stamped, or some way rendered with an insignia, portrait, or other artistic rendering. A medal may be awarded to a person or organization as a form of recognition for athletic, military, scientific,...

list and die engraver. He worked for the Royal Mint

Royal Mint

The Royal Mint is the body permitted to manufacture, or mint, coins in the United Kingdom. The Mint originated over 1,100 years ago, but since 2009 it operates as Royal Mint Ltd, a company which has an exclusive contract with HM Treasury to supply all coinage for the UK...

 in London

London

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. Originally thought to have come from Italy, he was in fact the son of Thomas Pingo (1692–1748) of St Martin in the Fields, London, where the Pingo family first appeared in the 1650's.

His subjects included Charles Edward Stuart

Charles Edward Stuart

Prince Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Sylvester Severino Maria Stuart commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie or The Young Pretender was the second Jacobite pretender to the thrones of Great Britain , and Ireland...

 (Bonny Prince Charlie) and George III. His was appointed Assistant Engraver at the Mint in 1771.

His sons Lewis Pingo (1743–1830) and John Pingo also became noted medallists, Lewis succeeding his father as the Mint's Assistant Engraver in 1776.