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Specifications for verifying legal tender and recoining counterfeit money : autograph manuscript, [1696?].

BIB_ID
303563
Accession number
MA 317.3
Creator
Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727.
Display Date
[1696?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 28.2 cm
Notes
Dating from The Newton Project, entry MINT00910, accessed 18 January 2011.
Docketed "Mr. Newton on the Coine."
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.
Presumably related to the recoinage of 1696-1698 and probably to the earlier part of it when such issues were most debated.--Cf. The Newton Project, entry MINT00910, accessed 19 January 2011.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Summary
Setting forth in four points the specifications for determining lawful coing and for the re-coining of that which is unlawful.