Showing 21–40 of 63 with category: Pyx Trials and Analyses of British Coinage
MINT00171: Order to send officers to the London Mint for a pyx trial on Monday 28 July, to be attended also by officers from York, Exeter, Bristol, Chester and Newcastle
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: c. June 1707, c. 355 words.
Source: MINT 19/1/237, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00178: Two holograph drafts, written as from the Goldsmiths' Company and bullion suppliers, complaining of the excessive fineness of the 1707 trial plate
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: After 21 August 1710, c. 692 words.
Source: MINT 19/1/278, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00181: Holograph draft of a clause requiring the officers of the York, Bristol, Exeter, Chester and Newcastle assay halls to attend Goldsmiths' Hall in London on request, in the event of their going two years without a pyx trial
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: After 1712?, c. 117 words.
Source: MINT 19/2/249, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00184: Result of pyx trial held 7 August 1713 on the gold trial plates of 19 October 1660, 15 October 1688 and 23 June 1707, which were all found standard
Author: Unknown
Metadata: After 7 August 1713, c. 120 words.
Source: MINT 19/1/303, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00186: Conveys an order from the King to calculate the value of other English gold coins in proportion to the 21s. guinea, preparatory to the devaluation of the guinea from 21s.6d
Author: Northey, Edward (Attorney General)
Metadata: 21 December 1717, c. 160 words.
Source: MINT 19/2/117-18, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK