420)

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/1/418, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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<418r>

–To make five sorts of money of Crown Gold,

One Piece which shall be called the quarter Guinea or five shillings & three pence piece running for five shillings & three pence sterling, & there shall be one hundred seventy & light of these in the pound weight Troy.

One other piece w^ch shall be called the half Guinea or ten shillings & six pence piece running for ten shillings & six pence sterling & there shall be eighty & nine of these in the pound weights Troy.

– excepting only the Quarter Guineas. For because these pieces cannot be sized with the same exactness{es} as the larger pieces of gold moneys \may be/, there shall be added to the Remedy one grain in weight, one \half/ grain for every eight \four/ quarter Guineas in the pound weight T{illeg}|r|oy of the moneys tried. |So always that the same default happen by Casualty, Otherwise not.|

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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