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Catalog Name MINT00611
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Title Report on copper coinage
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Author Isaac Newton
Place of Origin no place assigned
Origin Date 12 March 1713 [= 1714]
Repository National Archives (Kew, Richmond)
Pages 583
Wordcount 0
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Printed in NC, 6: 75-6.||The master of the Mint has jurisdiction over what gold and silver is acceptable for Mint use: the same must apply to copper. Explains the hammer test for copper and its advantages over other methods of testing. Requests an advance of 200 to repair and equip the Irish Mint for the new issue of copper coin and to make experimental castings.

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