BIB_ID
303555
Accession number
MA 317.2
Creator
Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727.
Display Date
[1698 Dec. 31 or later].
Credit line
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.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
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."
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