Partial variant holograph draft of <ref target="/catalogue/record/MINT00091">MINT00091</ref> (Mint 19/1/420) Isaac Newton c. 155 words The Newton Project Oxford 2017 Newton Project, University of Oxford

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 Before 6 May 1718, c. 155 words. MINT 19/1/418, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK UKSurreyKew, RichmondNational Archives MINT 19/1/418 Before 6 May 1718 England English Holograph Unknown Hand MintPersonnel and Administration Catalogue information compiled by Rob Iliffe, Peter Spargo & John Young Catalogue exported to teiHeader by Michael Hawkins Transcribed by Will Scott
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–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 wchwhich 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 exactnesses 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 Troy of the moneys tried. So always that the same default happen by Casualty, Otherwise not.