Catalogue Entry: MINT00662
Response to a petition from copper suppliers Hines and Appleby [see MINT00643 (Mint 19/2/319)] referred to Newton by the Treasury
Contents
Details of Hines' and Appleby's expenses (including the lease of a water mill, taken out on Newton's advice), the deficiencies of the copper offered by other suppliers, the quantity of copper coined to date and the quantity remaining on Hines' and Appleby's hands since the cessation of the coinage [around the beginning of 1719]. Newton, in fairness to the suppliers and in view of the continued public demand for copper money, recommends a resumption of coining, and also that any further proposals for coining be considered only if they can be shown to be an improvement on what Hines and Appleby can do.
Related Material
Printed in NC, 7: 35-6.
