Holograph notes on the price of tin from Siam

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/533, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Siam Tin sell in Holl{illeg}|a|nd {illeg}|f|or 50 Gilders Bank money \(i. e. 4^li. 5^s. 6^d)/ p^r {C}

Ours for 45 or 56 Current money \(i. e. 4^li 1^s )|)||r| 2^s 10^d)/

Siam Tin at Mallacca cost|s| from 35 to 40 Dollars of 4^s a Dollar the Bahara of 400^lwt Averdup. \nat (i. e. from 39^s $\frac{1}{5}$ to 44^s $\frac{4}{5}$ the C/

In China it pays 1 Tale of 6^s 8^d custome & sells for 10 Tale a Pecol of 132^{lw^t} Averdup.

It is often carried from Mallacca to Persia at 60 p^r cent profit

Its {sic} is ve{nd}ible at the Bay at y^e fort & at Surat

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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