Notes on the proportion of coins of various reigns found in a sample of £101

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/2/85, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Edw VI shillings 13. Sixpences 2|3|

Phil & Mar. Shiling {sic} 11. Sixpences 1.

Eliz shill 251^s = 12^℔ 11^s. Sizpences {illeg}|45|0 = 11^℔. 5^s. {illeg}|0|

Iames I Half crowns 3 = 7^s 6^d. Shillings, 159 = 7^lb. 19^s. Sixpences 65 = 1^l. 12. 6.

Charles 1^st Crowns 2 = {illeg}|20|^s. $\frac{1}{2}$ Crowns 272|3| = 34^l. {illeg}|2|^s. 6^d. Shillings 501 = 25^℔. 1^s. Sixpence 87|4| = {illeg}|2|^l. 3|2|^s. 6|0|^d

|Oxford $\frac{1}{2}$ Crowns \9/ |=| 1^℔. 2^s. 6^d {illeg}|

Charles II {illeg} $\frac{1}{2}$ Crowns 27 = {illeg}|3|^l. 7^s. 6^d. Shillings 18. Sixpences 1.

Total 100|1|^℔. 5^s. 0^d. Edw VI's mony $\frac{1}{144 \frac{2}{3}}$ . Phil & Mary's $\frac{1}{176}$ . Eliz $\frac{1}{4 \frac{1}{4}}$ . Iam. 1^st $\frac{1}{10 \frac{1}{6}}$ Charles 1^st $\frac{11}{18}$ . Charles 2^d $\frac{1}{23 \frac{1}{2}}$ .

Professor Rob Iliffe
Director, AHRC Newton Papers Project

Scott Mandelbrote,
Fellow & Perne librarian, Peterhouse, Cambridge

Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford, OX1 2RL - newtonproject@history.ox.ac.uk

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