Catalogue Entry: MINT00302

'Inquiries concerning the 800000 Mexico and Pillar Dollars purchased by her Majesty & coyned into two Real pieces for the Spanish service'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: Mid-1711, c. 3,512 words

Source: MINT 19/2/193-4, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Contents

Detailed report on the value of the coin and the practicalities of this operation.

Notes

[The money in question was the booty of two Genoese ships captured in the Mediterranean in February or early March 1711, and the intention was to use it to pay British troops in Spain: see NC, 5: 161, n.4 for further details.]