'Proposalls for Cutting & Coyning of Copper Half pence and Farthings p[er] the Mony^rs'

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/2/424, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Proposalls for Cutting & Coyning of Copper

Half pence & Farthings. per the Monyers

(Viz^t)

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For all Charges In Cutting the Blanks And Scowring them without Nealing the Pound Weight to {Contract} 21^d.	}	0. $\frac{3}{4}$
For Coyning them Nicely Fine, bearing all Loss, and Charges In Repairing the proper &c. at per pound	}	1. $\frac{3}{4}$

N. B.

That 6. farthings $\frac{1}{7}$ Was Allowed for Coyning the Last Copper. And that those proposed to be Coyned, must be much better Performed.

And That £200. was Allowed to the Monyers per the Last Patentees for Fitting up the Engins

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Moneyers proposals for coining copper

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

'Proposalls for Cutting & Coyning of Copper Half pence and Farthings p[er] the Monyrs'