The Mint has room to store over 2,000 tons of tin without interfering with coinage work

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/560, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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<560r>

To the R^t Hon^ble the Lord High Treasurer of England.

May it please yo^r Lord^p

Vpon reviewing the Mint I find \that there is/ room enough for coyning twenty thousand pounds a week of silver & eighty thousand pounds a week of gold & at the same time lodging \above/ two thousand Tunns of Tinn or above without bringing any Tin into the Rooms of y^e Gold & Silver

All w^ch &c

Is. Newton

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

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