Requests orders to draft new designs for coins as soon as the King's coat of arms has been decided on

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/276, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Related Texts
- Responses to this document:
  Copy of order to produce coin bearing particular arms [MINT 1/8/106]
  Follow ups to this document:
  Submits designs for reverses of half-guineas and sixpences [MINT 19/3/286]

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To the Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners of his Majestys Treasury.

May it please your Lordships

It being usual to place the Kings Arms upon the reverses of the larger species of the moneys: I humbly pray your Lordships that so soon as his Majestys Arms are setled, I may have such Orders or Directions as are proper, for preparing Draughts of the several species of the moneys to be affixed to a Warrant under the sign manual for coyning the same. All which is most humbly submitted &c.

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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