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Draft of Mint 1/8.105, MINT01190 (dated 31 December and printed in NC, 6: 198-9).
To the R
May it please rps
I understand that the money is intended to be
coyned according to the forms expressed in the annexed
Draughts. The Inscriptions, the Arms of Hannover,
& the Crown about that Escutcheon, are drawn only in
black lead, that if any thing be amiss it may be
wiped out & speedily amended
parts of the Draughts may be
it will be convenient that they be described in words
at length in the Warrant: to which Warrant these
Draughts (if they be approved) are to be annexe
If these Draughts are to be amended or any other
Draughts r
it shall be speedily done.✝
made by
Warrant in the Warrant it should be exprest that the five pound
pieces, the forty shillings pieces
forms exprest
Crowns, shillings & sixpences after tnext forms exprest
And the Groats, Three-pences, two pences, & pence after the for on
the head side same form with & e inscription
the forms depicted th
the small money the inscription about the Head is
proposed to be
the Reverse
in any of these Draughts the
crouded, it may be speedily mended hereafter by a
new Warrant.
scarce be distinct upon the half Guineas & sixpences.
All which is most humbly submitted to r
ps
Is. Newton