Requests order to coin Coronation medals and offers suggestions about the quality of metals to be used

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/319, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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To the R^t Hon^ble the Lords Comm^rs of her Maj^ties Treary

May it please yo^r Lord^ps

The time for making the Coronation Medals being very short I humbly pray yo^r Lord^ps speedy Orders concerning them. The silver Medals may be 15^{dw^t} better then standard & a pound weight Troy divided into 22 medals The Gold may be 1^car 2^gr better & a pound weight Troy divided into 20 Medals. If a pound weight Troy of Gold were divided into eighteen Medals they would take the impression better, for the former gold Medals were too thin. The Gold will cost about 4^li. 6^s. p^r ounce & the silver about 5^s. 7^d. The Coynage Duty in the opinion of M^r Attorney General being not applicable to this service, other monies will be requisite.

All w^ch is most humbly submitted &c

Is. Newton

^[1]

^[1] Mint Office 15 Apr. 1702.

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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