Notes and calculations relating to the cost and distribution of various gold and silver medals

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/324, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Additional Information
- Notes on the Electronic Edition
  - You are currently reading the diplomatic version of this text. Diplomatic transcriptions offer a detailed representation of the document with minimal editorial intervention. All deletions and additions are rendered in the text and abbreviations have not been expanded. Switching to the normalized view of this text will hide 2 deletions, silently include 3 additions and apply 5 editorial regularizations.
- Revision History
  - 1 January 2001
    - Catalogue information compiled by Rob Iliffe, Peter Spargo & John Young
  - 29 September 2011
    - Catalogue exported to teiHeader by Michael Hawkins
  - 19 March 2017
    - Transcribed by Will Scott
- Download MINT00757.xml and schema (advanced users only)
Related Texts
- This document is a version of:
  Notes and calculations relating to the cost and distribution of various gold and silver medals [MINT 19/3/331]
  Notes and calculations relating to the cost and distribution of various gold and silver medals [MINT 19/3/333]
  Notes and calculations relating to the cost and distribution of various gold and silver medals [MINT 19/3/337]

<324r>

Fifty Medalls of Gold for L^d Masham (gold refining & coynage) came to 168^li. Three hundred comes to 1008^li.

Twelve hundred Medalls at Q. Anns Coronation came to 634^oz 5^{dw^t} |w^ch| at 5^s 8^d per ounce was 170^li 4^s 1^d. Workmanship at 6^d a piece 30^li. Total 200^li. 4^s. 6^d.

Total of ☉ & ☽ 1208. 4^s. 6^d.

The 50 ☉ Medalls were to weigh 14^{dw^t} 15^gr a piece & all together weighed 36^oz. 13^dwt. 17^gr = 733^{dw^t}. 17^gr The gold cost 4^li 7^s 6^d p^r oz The making 3^s a piece. Total price of the ☉ 160^li. 9^s. 11^d $\frac{1}{2}$ . Workmanship 7^li 10^s ☉ & workmanshi{illeg}|p| 168^li.

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

Privacy Statement