Catalogue Entry: MINT01248

Letter concerning the allowed method of production of money of English standard at the Chester Mint

Author: Edmond Halley

Metadata: 28 Nov 1696, c. 469 words

Source: MM/5.40, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Printed in NC, 4: 213-4.

^[1] Chester mint Novemb 28° 1696.

^[2] We have coined about 60 Iourneys of money and taken in about 94000 ounces of silver.

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