A report containing an essay for the amendment of the silver coins

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Title
A report containing an essay for the amendment of the silver coins
Author
Lowndes, William, 1652-1724.
Publication
London :: Printed by Charles Bill, and the executrix of Thomas Newcomb...,
1695.
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Coinage -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Money.
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"A report containing an essay for the amendment of the silver coins." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A49333.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.

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Memorandum, By this Indenture were also Coined Half-pence and Farthings of Silver.

A Pound Weight of Gold of the Old Standard was to make by Tale Fourty five Nobles, amounting to Fifteen Pounds, or a proportionable Number of Half or Quarter Nobles: And a Pound Weight of Silver of the Old Sterling, to make by Tale

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Seventy five Grosses (i. e. Groats) amounting to Twenty five Shillings, or One hundred and fifty Half-Gros∣ses, going for Two Pence apiece, or Three hundred Sterlings going for Pence apiece: And Henry Brissell was Master and Worker.

The like, only adding Half-Ster∣lings, of which Six hundred in a Pound Troy.

The like.

The like: And Bardet de Male∣pilys was Master and Worker.

The like: And Nicholas Malakin, a Florentine, was Master and Wor∣ker.

The like: And here Half-pence are called Mailes.

A Pound Weight of Gold of the said Old Standard was to make by Tale Fifty Nobles, or One hundred Half Nobles, or Two hundred Quar∣ter Nobles, amounting to Sixteen Pounds, Thirteen Shillings, and Four Pence in Tale. And a Pound Weight of Silver of the said Old Standard, was to make by Tale Ninety Gros∣ses

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or Groats, or One hundred and eighty Half-Groz, or Three hundred and Sixty Sterlings, or Seven hun∣dred and twenty Mailes, or One thousand four hundred and fourty Farthings, amounting to Thirty Shil∣lings: And Bartholomew Goldbeater was Master and Worker.

A Pound Weight of Gold of the said Old Standard was Coin'd into Fourty five Rialls, going for Ten Shillings apiece, or a proportionable Number of Half-Rialls, going for Five Shillings apiece, or Riall-Far∣things, going for Two Shillings and Six-pence apiece, or into Sixty Seven Angels and an Half, going for Six Shillings and Eight Pence apiece, or a proportionable Number of Angelets going for Three Shillings and Four Pence apiece: And consequently the Pound Troy of Gold was Coined in∣to Twenty two Pounds Ten Shillings by Tale, and a Pound Weight of Silver of the Old Sterling was Coined into One hundred and twelve Groats and an half, making in Tale Thirty

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seven Shillings and Six Pence, or a proportionable Number of Half-Groz, Sterlings or Pence, Half-pence or Farthings: And here Sir Giles Dawbeny was Master and Worker.

Is the same with that of the Ninth of Henry the Fifth, lowering the Gold to Sixteen Pounds Thirteen Shillings and Four Pence, and the Silver Moneys to Thirty Shillings: And Robert Mansfeild was Master and Worker.

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