Catalogue Entry: MINT00332

Copy of a pamphlet [not by Newton] entitled 'Reasons for new-Coyning our Money so as to increase and preserve it, And for paying the Publick Debts'

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/2/585-8, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Opposes a rumoured plan to reduce the guinea to below 21s.6d., and proposes instead a 12% reduction in the output of silver coin.

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