Holograph notes on guilders

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/2/168, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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  - 1 January 2001
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<168r>

3 Gild. 1698	{	A woman. Inscription Hac nitimus hanc tuemur. Belgic Lyon
			1^oz.	6 $\frac{1}{4}$ ^gr.
Id 1695			1.	11.
Id. 1696			1.	5 $\frac{3}{4}$
I. 1697			1.	9 $\frac{1}{4}$
Id. 1682			1^oz.	4^gr
Id 1691			1.	6^gr
Id 1686	{	A woman & Reverse Belgic Lyon & Andrew cross quartered
			1^oz	7 $\frac{1}{2}$ ^gr
Id 1687			1	5

			Weight			d
Three Gilder Pieces	{	1682	1^oz.	4^gr	W	1 $\frac{1}{2}$
		1686	1.	7 $\frac{1}{2}$	W	1
		1687	1.	5	W	1
		1691	1.	6	W	1 $\frac{1}{2}$
		1695	1.	11	W	2
		1696	1.	5 $\frac{3}{4}$	W	1
		1697	1.	9 $\frac{1}{4}$	W	1
		1698	1.	6 $\frac{1}{4}$	W	1

A three guilder piece of Holland should be when new coyned 1^dwt wors & weigh 1^oz 8^gr but is some times 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ ^gr, 2^gr or 2 $\frac{1}{2}$ ^gr worse & frequently weighs or 2 or 3^gr lighter or heavier bein uneavenly coyned. If 1^dwt wors & 1^oz 8^gr in weight it's worth 5^s 2^d $\frac{3}{4}$ . This is the legal value but by wearing they become lighter. Its stampt with a Minerva leaning on an Altar & holding a hat on a sphere with this motto Hac nitimur hanc tuemur, & on the reverse the Belgic Lyon & sometimes the Lyon & cross quartered. A guilder in Holland is therefore worth 1^s. 8^d $\frac{11}{12}$ .

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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