Catalogue Entry: MINT00321

Proposal to raise £28,333 per 1,000 tons of copper coined by reducing the weight of halfpence and farthings

Author: W. F.

Source: MINT 19/2/378-9, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Further proposal to invest the money thus saved in work schemes to employ the poor. Offer to reveal another scheme to raise above two million pounds in a year.

[1] London May the 21st 1717 }

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