Notes on German coins

Author: Isaac Newton, Unknown

Source: MINT 19/2/178, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Additional Information
- Notes on the Electronic Edition
  - You are currently reading the normalized version of this text. Normalized transcriptions provide a tidied-up view of the original text. Editorial interventions are applied to expand abbreviations and correct textual mistakes. Additions are silently included within the body text and deleted text is not displayed. Switching to the diplomatic view of this text will show 16 deletions, reveal 12 additions and not apply 1 editorial regularization.
- Revision History
  - 1 January 2001
    - Catalogue information compiled by Rob Iliffe, Peter Spargo & John Young
  - 29 September 2011
    - Catalogue exported to teiHeader by Michael Hawkins
  - 7 November 2019
    - Transcribed by Kees-Jan Schilt
- Download MINT02030.xml and schema (advanced users only)
Related Texts
- This document is a version of:
  Notes on German coins [MINT 19/2/177]
  Notes on German coins [MINT 19/2/179]
  Notes on German coins [MINT 19/2/184]

<178r>

A pound weight English conteins twelve ounces a Mark eight ounces an ounce twenty penny weight, a penny weight 24 grains.

Eighteen Hanover Pieces of $\frac{2}{3}$ weigh 7^oz 11^dwt 16^gr English which is a Mark Hanover weight. [And one such Piece weighs 8^dwt 10 $\frac{2}{9}$ grains. so that a Mark Hannover is lighter then a Mark English by 8^dwt. 8^gr.

Four of those pieces being assayed, three of them wanted 1^dwt full & one of them 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ ^dwt full of being 12ounces fine. They were each of them assayed twice.

By the standard of England one pound weight Troy of fine gold is equal in value to 15^lwt 2^oz 10^dwt 7∟32^gr of fine silver.

And one Mark weight of fine gold is equal in value to 15^marks 1 ounce. 13^dwt 12∟88^gr of fine silver.

And one Mark of fine silver is equal in value to 10 penny weight & 12∟471 grains of fine gold:

If any silver is sent to me from Hanover I can coin it into English money according to the weight & Essay, & buy gold therewith after the rate above mentioned, & deliver the gold to any person appointed to receive the same. Or else I can deliver the new silver money to any person appointed to buy gold therewith. Is. Newton

Of the kingdomes & Churches described by John & of his allusions to the first & second Temple & the sychronical parts of his Prophecy