Catalogue Entry: MINT00870
Proposals for measures to eliminate counterfeiting
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Proposes the appointment of a board of five hereditary commissioners, including himself and the addressee, at a salary of £500 a year each, to supervise coining according to a method he has invented that renders counterfeiting impossible. Salaries of senior Mint officers could also be raised by around £200, since Rotherham's method will save the government between fifteen and twenty thousand pounds a year.
Notes
[The proposal specifies an increase of £200 in the master's salary, as well as proposing the addressee as a commissioner on £500 a year, which suggests Newton is not the addressee. See NC, 7: 102, n.1 to letter 1345.]
