Holograph note of the number and cost of Coronation medals

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/1/415, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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28\double/ gold medal{illeg}|s| weiging {sic} 32 oz {illeg}|1|9^dwt 8^gr. 7 = 8^oz. 4^{dw^t}. 20^g. 1^med = 1^oz. 3^{dw^t}. 13^gr $\frac{1}{7}$

One single gold medal = 11^{dw^t}. 18^gr $\frac{4}{7}$ (at 4^li 4^s p^r oz) = 2^li. 9^s. 4^d $\frac{1}{2}$

Two hundre{d} medals of gold & 1200 medals of silver ordered by the King in Council. Afterwards the Comm^rs of y^e Treary ordered 515 gold medalls more{illeg}, &|f|or y^e Parliam^t men &c & 28 double medals for forreign ministers.

The silver medals weighed 10^dwt {illeg}|2|1 $\frac{3}{10}$ ^gr each

The gold will now cost 4^li 7|6|^s p^r oz & the silver 5^s 7^d

771^gold medal =	1903. 7. 3 material, 38^li. 11^s workmanshi{illeg}\|p\|. Total	1941. 18. 3
1200 silver medals	176. 18. 5 material, 10^li 0^s workmanship. Total	186. 18. 5
		2128. 16. 8

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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