Holograph notes on the output and costs of various individual operations (e.g. pressing, stamping, milling) at the Mint

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/2/418-19, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Working at the Press
A Press coins 54 pieces in a minute, or 27 pence that is a pound & an half, 90 pounds in an hour, & 450 pounds in 5 hours. The orther 4 or 5 hours may be allowed for setting or changing the dies, bringing the blanks & carrying back the new moneyes. Four Labourers & moneyer to feed the Press comes 14^s per 450^lb. or $\frac{28}{75}$ ^d or $\frac{3}{8}$ ^d per ℔	}	$\frac{3}{8}$ ^d per lb.
Working at the Marking.
The Engin marks 72 pieces {illeg}or 2 pounds in a minute, & 600^℔ in 5 hours by the hands of one Moneyer at 6^s per diem. That is 25^℔ for 3^d. The other four or 5 hours may be allowed for setting right the Engin & fetching & carrying the blanks.	}	$\frac{3}{25}$ ^d or $\frac{1}{8}$
The {cutt} working at a cutter.
A moneyer One cutter make 60 blanks \or 30 pence/ in a minute, 1800 pence or 100^℔ in an hour & {{illeg}\|6\|}00^℔ in six hours {mony^r\|man\|} \|or Labourer\| at {illeg}\|{8}\| per diem, that is 50^℔ for {{illeg}\|8\|}	}	$\frac{4}{25}$
The working at a Mill.
One Mill in a day with 6 horses at {{illeg}\|3\|}^s per horse & a Miller at 3^s & a horskeeper at 2^s {illeg} will draw bars th{{illeg}\|r\|}ice th{{illeg}\|o\|}r{{illeg}\|o\|}u for making 1000^li p^r diem in shillings or 20000 half pence or 555^{illeg}lwt. that is 555^{lw^t} for 276^d.	}	$\frac{1}{2}$
The working at a Flatter
A Flatter w^th a Moneyer & Labourer flats {{illeg}\|8\|}00^{lw^t} per diem for 8^s	}	$\frac{3}{25}$

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Ten mills working 20 hours p^r diem sufficed for coining 96|0|000^li per week in shillings & therefore two mills working 10 hours per diem suffice for coining |9000 per week &| 1{6|9|}{9|6|}00^li per diem that is 3{illeg}|0|000 pieces, & so many half pence {illeg} \amount to/ {illeg}|833|^lwt of copper per diem. And if the copper go but twice through the Mills the two mills will sufice for coyning 12{illeg}|5|0^℔ per diem

A Press strikes 54 times a minute & therefore by continual working coins 90^{lw^t} in an hour & {illeg}|4|05^li in 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ hours. The rest of y^e day is allowed for setting right the Presses Dyes & carrying the blanks & money to & fro. A moneyer & 4 labourers come to 14^s per day that is $\frac{168}{405}$ ^d = $\frac{3}{7}$ ^d.

A Cutter makes 60 blanks in 500^li of half penny blanks in a day. And two Mills two shilling Cu half penny cutters & two\one/ farthing cutter make 12{illeg}|5|0^{l{illeg}w^t} of Blanks per diem, By the help of one Moneyer one at 6^s {one}|two| Millers at 3^s each {o}|t|wo labourers & a horskeeper at 2^s each & 12 horses at 3^s each, in all at 54^s p^r diem that is at $\frac{1}{2}$ ^d per lw^t.

{{illeg}|A|} p|h|alf penny flatter a day & a farthing flatter half a day comes to 16|2|^s per 1250^lwt or $\frac{1}{{?}}$ ^d per lw^t

A marking engin comes to 8^s per 4000^{lw^t} or $\frac{1}{4}$ ^d per lw^t, & the lettered Keeping the Engines in repair plates to $\frac{1}{12}$ ^d per lw^t

The charge of coining copper & time it takes up {computed}.