Clarification of an earlier verbal account of the cost of producing copper plate, stressing that the cost of producing coin is almost twice as high

Author: J. Kemp

Source: MINT 19/2/422, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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<422r>

Decemb^r. the 27^th. 1727

Sir

Since I had the Honour To write on you Last have been in doubt. Whether I explained my self so fully as I ought.

I told you that the Trade of Copper Smiths gave the Millers 3^d. per pound to reduce their {Shruffe} into Plates Without observing to you that those plates in our Way when cutt into blanks for half pence or farthings Will make but about half, Which will make the charge thereon, Near 6^d. per pound if not full. I am with great Respect

Sir

Your Most obedient Servant

I. Kemp

M^r. Conduit.

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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