Copy of note requesting Sir Isaac Newton's attendence with a report on the coinage of quarter guineas
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Sir
The Lords Commissioners of his Majestys Treasury desire you to attend them here on Monday morning next at 11 a Clock with a State of such Observations & difficulties as may arise to you in the Coynage of Quarter Guineas from the greater space of time necessary in making that Coyn than in Coyning Guineas & halfe Guineas I am &c 20th Xber 1718.
Wm Lowndes
Sir Isaac Newton about quarter Guineas
Source
T 27/22.383, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK20 Dec 1718, c. 74 words.