Clarification of an earlier verbal account of the cost of producing copper plate, stressing that the cost of producing coin is almost twice as high

Author: J. Kemp

Source: MINT 19/2/422, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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<422r>

Decemb^r. y^e. 27^th. 1727

S^r.

Since I had the Hon^r. To write on you Last have been in doubt. Whether I explained my self so fully as I ought.

I told you that the Trade of Copper Smiths gave y^e Millers 3^d. ꝑ pound to reduce their {Shruffe} into Plates Without observing to you that those plates in our Way when cutt into bl{i}|a|nks for half pence or farthings Will make but about half, Which will make the charge thereon, Near 6^d. ꝑ pound if not full. I am with great Respect

S^r

Your Most obed^t. Serv^t

I. Kemp

M^r. Conduit.

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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