Catalogue Entry: MINT00388

[Newton is here effectively approving of his own suggestion, since it was he who drafted Allardes' proposal: see MINT00387 (Mint 19/1/183).]

Printed in NC, 4: 500-501. Clerical copy of the same date in PRO, T17/1, p. 173.

In response to Allardes' proposal, recommends that for the duration of the recoinage the Scots be allowed to revert to their old practice [adding copper during melting] as this seems to be the only practicable method of producing standard coin there