Draft of <ref target="/catalogue/record/MINT00605">MINT00605</ref> (Mint 19/2/306) Isaac Newton c. 516 words The Newton Project Oxford 2017 Newton Project, University of Oxford

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 After 12 February 1713, c. 516 words. Response to John Pery's [Perry's] application to coin copper [MINT 19/2/306] MINT 19/2/431, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK UKSurreyKew, RichmondNational Archives MINT 19/2/431 After 12 February 1713 England English Holograph MintCopper Coinage Catalogue information compiled by Rob Iliffe, Peter Spargo & John Young Catalogue exported to teiHeader by Michael Hawkins Transcribed by Will Scott finished transcription Will Scott changed reference to draft recommendation of Charles Brattell from Mint 19/2/431 to Mint 19/2/432 Checked by Will Scott
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Parker.

May it please your LordpLordship

In obedience to yoryour LordpsLordships Order of Reference upon the PetionsPetitions of IJohn Perry & others for making either blanks or plates of fine copper for coining of half pence & farthings We are humbly of opinion that when ever it sha a new coinage of such money shall be thought fit,2 the same be made of such fine copper as will hammer when red hot, & is worth about 1112 or or 12d per pound weight Averdupois unwrought or 1& 3 more when wrought into plates. There is no assay of finer copper to be depended upon.

1 That the blanks wthwith the rest of the coinage whole coinage be done in the Tower & that either by casting are wrought copper into bars for making the blanks or for by cutting the copperblanks out of the plates wrought wrought at yethe mells. copper mills..the Mint it being unsafe to have coining tools & coinage abroad. 3 That it be done of coper either by castin hammered into plates at the Copper mills or cast into barrs in the Mint. In The first last way the money will look as well as in the first without any sensible difference, & in the lastfirst it will be 2d in the pound dearer then in yethe firstlast. But in the first must have last way there must be two or three ounces of Tinn added to an Ccwt wtweight of copper to make yethe metal runn close in the casting, whereas in the last willfirst way the money will be of clean copper. free from said holes In yethe formerlatter way a pound weight may be cut into 19 pence in the latterformer into 21 pence. That at prresent there is no considerable want of copper money. In some places there is too much. In London it is in little not much wanted. But if yethe it be thought fit to set on foot the coinage of copper money by a standing commission after the manner of the coinage of gold & silver, the quantity to be coined from time to time may be left to the discretion of the Lord Treasurer. & About 50 Tunns once in six or seven years may be sufficent. That the stamp for avoiding frequent trouble or altering it be to yethe Queen & Council in alt & to yoryour LordpLordship in altering it, remain the same, unless it be thought fit at anysome times upon extraordinary occasions to alter it. That it be edged with such an edging as may be fittest to prevent counterfeiting by casting. That an Importer be appointed to buy & import the copper by weight & receive back the moneys by weight & tale, & put the same away, & that yethe Master be carged & discharged by his Note as in yethe coinage of gold & silver.. & that yethe Master & ImporThat be allowed each of them a Teller to weigh & tell the money between to .to weigh & tell the money to the Importer.