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Catalog Name MINT00178
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Title Two holograph drafts, written as from the Goldsmiths' Company and bullion suppliers, complaining of the excessive fineness of the 1707 trial plate
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Author Isaac Newton
Place of Origin no place assigned
Origin Date After 21 August 1710
Repository National Archives (Kew, Richmond)
Pages 692
Wordcount 0
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Followed by a holograph draft fragment of MINT00173 (Mint 19/1/109).||[See Westfall, 611-12. This report seems never to have been submitted, but Newton did finally succeed in restoring the use of the pre-1707 trial plates in his indenture of 1718.]

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