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Catalog Name MINT00302
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Title 'Inquiries concerning the 800000 Mexico and Pillar Dollars purchased by her Majesty & coyned into two Real pieces for the Spanish service'
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Author Isaac Newton
Place of Origin no place assigned
Origin Date Mid-1711
Repository National Archives (Kew, Richmond)
Pages 3,512
Wordcount 0
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Detailed report on the value of the coin and the practicalities of this operation.||[The money in question was the booty of two Genoese ships captured in the Mediterranean in February or early March 1711, and the intention was to use it to pay British troops in Spain: see NC, 5: 161, n.4 for further details.]

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