Notes on denominations, fineness and weight of various foreign coins

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/2/37, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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21 pence sterling = Gilder = 20 sols current.

52 $\frac{1}{2}$ pence sterling = 2 $\frac{1}{2}$ Guilder = 50 sols current = 100 pence de gros of Holland = Patagon = Rixdoller of Holland & Flanders

54^d sterling = Ecu of France = Head Rixdoller of the Empire = old Piastre of Spain & Portugal = 8 Reaus = 1 $\frac{1}{4}$ new Piastre of Spain.

Or 23 sols current = 24 pence sterling & 50 sols = 52 $\frac{4}{23}$ pence sterling = Rix doller of Holland. And 230 sols = 20^s sterling = 11 $\frac{1}{2}$ Guilders = 38 $\frac{1}{3}$ skillings.

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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