Record ID:
303555
Accession number:
MA 317.2
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 28.2 cm
Notes:
Docketed "An Accompt of the whole Coynage of milled monies."
Part of a collection of Isaac Newton documents related to coinage. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Summary:
Giving an account of the total gold and silver monies coined between 1663 and "the last day of December 1698" (being £18,713,052.07.02). Noting that "Gold is here recconed at £44.10.00 the pound weight [which] is 20s the Guinea. but if Gold be recconed at £1.2.0 the Guinea, the whole Coynage of Gold will amount to 8,958,919.9.0 & that of both Gold & Silver to £19,527,499.11.00." Signed "Is. Newton."
Provenance:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
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