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To the t.ble:
to Consider of His Majestys Coronation.
May it please Your Lordships
In Obedience to Your Lordships Order that I should lay before your
Lordships an t:
requisite to make Medals upon the present Occasion, I most humbly represent
that twelve Hundred Medals of silver and three hundred of Gold were then made
by Order of Council and delivered to the Treasury of the Houshold to be distributed
at the Coronation, and that upon her Majestys Order Signifyed by the Lord rers
Warrant, five Hundred and fifteen Medals of Gold were made afterwards for the
house of Commons and delivered to their Speaker, and forty more were delivered to
the Lord Chamberlain for Foreign Ministers: A pound weight of fine Gold was
then Cutt into Twenty Medals, and a pound weight of five silver into twenty
and two medals. But the Medals for foreign Ministers (except agents & consuls)
were of double this Value. At the Coronation of King William there were but
two Hundred Medals of Gold made by Order of Council.
After the Form of the Medals and of His Majesty's Effigies is settled it
will take up about a Calendar month to make the puncheons, and three
or four days more to make the Dyes, and Coin e.
press. And if either of the puncheons should break as sometimes happens
a fortnight more will be requisite to repair the loss. The Coinage Duty being
appropriated, money should be advanced from the Civil List to buy Gold
and Silver.
If the Impression is to use high like that of the Medals made upon
the late peace, they must be Coined in a Ring, and it will take up six week
to make the puncheons and Dyes and Coin 1500 Medals of this sort, or
two monthly if a puncheon should happen to break. And the Medals must
be weightier that there may be substance to make the Impression rise high
Sixteen Medals of this sort will require a pound weight of fine Gold, and
twenty a pound weight of fine Silver
All which is most humbly submitted to your ps:
Is: Newton
Mint office
6 Sept. 1714