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Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/2/431, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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  Response to John Pery's [Perry's] application to coin copper [MINT 19/2/306]

<431r>

Parker.

May it please your Lord^p

In obedience to yo^r Lord^ps Order of Reference upon the Petions {sic} of Iohn Perry & others for making \either/ blanks |or plates| of fine copper for coining of half pence & farthings We are humbly of opinion that when ever it sha a new coinage of such money shall be thought {illeg}|f|it,|²| the same be made of such fine copper as will hammer when red hot, & is worth about 11 $\frac{1}{2}$ or {illeg} {illeg} or 12^d per pound weight Averdupois unwrought or 1{illeg}\& 3 more/ when wrought into plates. |There is no assay of finer copper to be depended upon.|

|1| That the blanks w^th the rest of the coinage whole coinage be done in the Tower & that either by casting are wrought copper into bars for making the blanks or for by cutting the copper\blanks/ out of {the} plates wrought wrought at y^e mells. copper mills. {sic}\the {sic} Mint it being unsafe to have coining tools & coinage abroa{illeg}|d|./

\|3| That it be done \of coper/ either by castin hammered into plates at the Copper mills or cast into barrs in the Mint./ |In| The first \last way the money/ will look as well as \in/ the {illeg}|firs|t without any sensible difference, & \in/ the last\first it/ will be 2^d in the pound dearer then \in/ y^e first\last/. But \in/ the first must have \last way there must be/ two or three ounces of Tinn added to an C w^t of copper to make y^e metal runn close in the casting, whereas \ in/ th{illeg}|e| last will\first/ way the money will be of clean copper|.| free from said {holes} |In y^e former\latter/ way a pound weight may be cut into 19 pence in the latter\former/ into {illeg}|2|1 pence.|

That at p^rsent there is no \considerable/ want of copper money. In some places there is too much. In London it is {in} little \not much/ wanted. But if y^e it be thought fit to set {illeg}|o|n foot the coinage of copper money \by a standing commission/ after the manner of the coinage of gold & silver, the quantity to be coined from time to time may be left to the discretion of the Lord Treasurer. |& About 50 Tunns once in six or seven years may be sufficent.|

That the stamp for avoiding frequent trouble or altering it be to y^e Queen & Council in alt & |to| yo^r Lord^p in altering it, remain the same, unless it be thought fit at any\some/ times upon extraordinary occasions to alter it.

That it be edged with such an edging as may be fittest to prevent counterfeiting by casting.

That an Importer be appointed to buy & import the copper \by weight/ & {illeg}receive {illeg} back \the moneys/ by weight & tale, & put the same away, & that y^e Master be carged & discharged by his Note {illeg}|a|s in y^e coinage of gold & silver. {sic} |& that y^e Master & Impor{That} be allowed each of them a Teller to \weigh &/ tell the money between to {illeg}.|to| \weigh &/ tell the money to the Importer.|