Holograph note on the trial of gold coin from London and silver coin from various mints on 3 August 1699.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/1/239, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Tower Gold in the Pix Aug. 3. 1699.

Guineas in the Pix 882 $\frac{1}{2}$ . The whole weight 236^oz. 18^dwt. 5^gr, making in the pound weight 44 $\frac{1}{2}$ $\frac{1}{5}$ or 44^℔. 14^s. 0^d. Told out to the fire 1 five pound piece, 35 Guineas & 9 half Guineas amounting to 44 $\frac{1}{2}$ Guineas. Weight to the fire 11^oz. 18^dwt. 23^gr from the fire 11^oz. 18^dwt 15^gr. wast 8^gr. Vpon the assay it proved standard.

Tower silver in the Pix.

The tale thereof 348^l. 2^s. 8^d The weight 111^lwt. 10^oz. 3^dwt. making by the pound weight 3^℔. 2^s. 3^d. Better ob^wt

Bristoll made 3^℔ 2^s 2^d Exeter 3. 2. 3. Chester 3: 2. 3 York 3. 2. 3 Norwich 3^℔. 2^s. 6^d in the pound weight. All of them standard except Bristoll which was ob^wt worse.

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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