Anthony Smith, who began working as an engraving apprentice at De La Rue in 1967, trained in portrait engraving with Harry Carradine until 1971, and then with Joseph Keen. In 1989, he joined Harrison & Son and worked there until the company was acquired by De La Rue in 1993 (*1).
He produced engravings for banknotes of Angola, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Botswana, Brunei, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Hong Kong, Iraq, Northern Ireland, Jamaica, Jersey, Kenya, Lebanon, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, Uganda, Yemen, and Zambia.
For Turkey, he created the engraving of the Izmir Clock Tower on the back of the 500 Lira banknote from the seventh emission.
[1] The International Engraver’s Line, Gene Hessler (*49, s. 254).
