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Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/4-5, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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An Account of the weight & fineness of several piece of Scotch money.

Intrinsic Value
54^d $\frac{1}{8}$ $\frac{1}{32}$	A sixty shillings piece of C{illeg}\|harles\| II \1682/ weighing 425^gr, wors iij^dwt
54 $\frac{7}{8}$	A sixty shillings piece of William & Mary 1691, weighing 425^gr, standard
36^d	A forty shillings piece of K. William 1695 weighing 283^gr, work ij\|i\|j^dwt
21 $\frac{7}{8}$	A twenty five shillings piece\six shillings & 8 pence piece (Hatton{illeg}\|s\| two mark piece)/ of Charles II 1673 weight 175^gr, wors vij^dwt
18 $\frac{1}{4}$	A twenty shillings piece of K. William 1695 wieghing 141^gr, standard.
12\|3\| $\frac{1}{16}$	A fifteen shilling\|s\| \thirteen shillings & four pence/ piece of Charles II \1675/ weight 10{illeg}\|2\|^gr wors ij^dwt
10 $\frac{3}{4}$	A twelves shllings\13 $\frac{1}{3}$ shhillings piece (Hattons Mark/ piece of Charles II \ / weighing 86^gr wors vij^{dw^t}
{illeg} $\frac{3}{4}$ \|9 $\frac{1}{6}$ \|{illeg}	A tenn shillings piece of K. Iames II weighing {illeg}\|71\|^gr, standard
5 $\frac{1}{4}$ $\frac{1}{16}$	A six shillings \& 8^d/ piece of Charles II, \(Hattons Half mark)/ weighing 42^gr, worse iiij $\frac{1}{2}$ ^dwt
4 $\frac{1}{2}$ − $\frac{1}{32}$	A five shillings piece of K. William weighing 35^gr worse 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ ^dwt.

Whence I observe that in taking Scotch shillings for English pence there ought to be a discount of 10 per cent: And particularly a Scotch ^[1] shillings piece is worth in England ^[2] intrinsic val{illeg}|ue|
And a Scotch ^[3] is worth in England ^[4]

Ha{illeg}|tt|on (Lauderdale's brother) {illeg}|c|oyned base money of two base allay for w^ch he was accused by D. Hamilton & went out about y^e time of Lauderdales disgrace neare y^e {illeg}|e|nd of Cha{:} II'{s} reign. {illeg}|A|ll his money was ordered to be recoyned & now goe is not current in Scotland.

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Sixty two shill. scotch make a scotch ounce Troy as 62^d English make english ounce Troy except that the Scotch money is made lighter {illeg}|b|y 4^s Scotch in y^e Scotch english \three {illeg} pe{illeg}|i|ce {sic},/ or in y^e proportion of 14|5| to 15|4| to prevent the melting down of their money.

The most current money in Scotland at p^rsent are 40 20 10 & 5^s pices {sic}

^[1] 5} 10 15 20

^[2] 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ ^d} 9 13 $\frac{1}{2}$ {17}{18}

^[3] Noble\half mark/} Mark Pound

^[4] {illeg}|6|^d. 12. 18