Catalogue Entry: MINT00843

Order of the Commons Committee on the Miscarriages of the Mint (forwarded to Newton by the Committee's chairman, Arnold) for [William] Chaloner [Challoner]to demonstrate before them his method of making guineas

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 15 February 1696 [= 1697], c. 92 words

Source: MINT 19/1/506, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Notes

[Chaloner had accused the Mint officers of incompetence and forgery, and offered to demonstrate his own methods to pre-empt counterfeiting. The Committee reported in favour of Chaloner's methods on 8 April 1697: report reprinted in Ruding, Annals of the Coinage, 2: 465. For accounts of the affair, see Craig, NATM, 17-19 and Westfall, 571-5.]

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