View Catalog: MINT00179
Catalog Name | MINT00179 | |
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Title | Complaint about trial plates | |
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Author | Isaac Newton | |
Place of Origin | no place assigned | |
Origin Date | Between 21 August 1710 and 28 March 1711 | |
Repository | National Archives (Kew, Richmond) | |
Pages | 304 | |
Wordcount | 0 | |
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Printed in NC, 5: 82-3.||The present trial plate is about a quarter of a grain finer than the last, which was itself too fine. Proposes that uniform standards for valuing silver and gold should apply throughout Great Britain to eliminate such anomalies.||[Note on dating: clearly post-dates the pyx trial of 21 August 1710, and the Treasury was only in commission until 28 March 1711: see NC, 5: 83, n.1. NC gives 'c. 31 December 1710' but describes its own suggestion as arbitrary.]
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