Royal warrant approving the Mint's proposed designs of gold and silver coin subject to certain alterations

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/282, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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<282r>

Our Will and Pleasure is, and Wee do hereby command and Authorize you, that for the future you cause Our Coyns of gold and Silver viz^t: the five pound piece, the forty shillings piece, the twenty shillings piece, and the ten shillings piece of gold, and the Five shillings piece, the two shillings and sixpence piece, the shillings piece and the six pence piece of Silver, to be made according to the forms depicted in a draught, which was shewed unto, and approved of by Vs, and hereunto annexed, And for so doing this shall be your Warrant. Given at Our Court at the Day of 1702. In the First year of Our Reign.

^[1]

By Her Majesty's Command.

^[1] To Our Trusty & Welbeloved,
Isaac Newton Esq^r. Master
and worker of Our Mint.

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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