Catalogue Entry: MINT00589
Response to a petition from Abel Slaney and partners to coin a further 700 tons of halfpence and farthings
Contents
Recommends returning responsibility for copper coinage exclusively to the Mint (as before 1694, when it began to be farmed out to private coiners). There is in any case no demand for such a large quantity of copper.
Related Material
Printed in NC, 4: 408-9. Slaney's proposals are in PRO, T1/85, no. 141 (18 May 1703) and T1/86, no. 91 (6 July 1703).
