Copy of note requesting Sir Isaac Newton's attendence with a report on the coinage of quarter guineas

Author: William Lowndes (Secretary to the Treasury)

Source: T 27/22.383, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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<383> ^[1]

Sir

The Lords Commissioners of his Majestys Treasury desire you to attend them here on Monday morning next at 11 a Clock with a State of such Observations & difficulties as may arise to you in the Coynage of Quarter Guineas from the greater space of time necessary in making that Coyn than in Coyning Guineas & halfe Guineas I am &c 20^th Xber 1718.

W^m Lowndes

^[1] Sir Isaac Newton about quarter Guineas

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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