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Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/284, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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  Submits draft designs for new George I coins [MINT 19/3/285]

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The five pound piece the forty shillings piece the twenty shillings piece & the ten shillings piece of gold according to the forms described in the two uppermost figures & the Crown, half crown, shilling & sixpenny pieces of silver according to the forms described in the two figures next below. In both which sorts of both the inscription GEORGIVS. D. G. MAG. BRI. FRA. ET. HIB. REX. F. D. is about the Head & the Reverse hath four Escutcheons crowned with the points of the Escutcheons turned inwards & a star & garter in the middle between the points, & in the three first Escutcheons the Arms of Great Britain France & Ireland & in the fourth the Arms of his Majestys Dominions in Germany & about the Escutcheons the inscription BRVN. ET. LVN. DVX. S. R. I. A. TH. ET. PR. EL. & over the first Escutcheon the Date. And the Groats, three pennys, two pennies & Pennies are to be according to forms of the larger silver moneys on the Head side with the Inscription GEORGIVS DEI GRATIA, & on the Reverse after the forms described in the four lowest figures with the numbers 4, 3, 2 & 1 crowned & the Inscription MAG. BRI. FR. ET. HIB. REX &c, & the Date. And the Gold moneys for distinguishing them from the silver moneys gilt are to have on the Head side no drapery about the neck & on the Reverse four scepters between the Escutcheons.