Holograph notes on eighteen foreign coins 1617-1700 (with two drawings showing the design of a Swedish Rixdollar and an unspecified Danish coin) and the English crown of 1553
A new Swedish piece called a Rix Dollar of 8 Marks of silver wth ye Kings head & this inscription Carolus XI D. G. Rex Sue{illeg}. & on one side & this Reverse ✜ viz& about it Dominus Protector meus 1683 & edged wth this inscription Manibus ne laedar aravis{illeg}. The weight 20dwt 4gr. The assay.
Another of ye same weighing 20dwt {illeg}1gr.
Another Swedish piece little worn called a Caroline with this inscription Carolus Gustavus Rex about ye Kings head, & on ye back side three crowns wthout any inscription & under the crowns II X M The weight 6dwt 12gr, & perhaps before wearing 6dwt 154gr.or 16. The assay
Another piece with this inscription about ye Kings head Gustavus Adolphus D. G. designat. Rex. Sueciæ Princeps Hær. Gloria Altissimo suorum refugio. And on ye back side about three escutcheons with this inscription III Suenske Markr. 1617, The weight 12dwt 6 gr. Before wearing it might be {illeg} a grain or one grain heavier. The assay
It seems to have been a medall:
A Danish piece wth this inscription about the Kings head Christ V Dei Gra. & on the reverse Dan. Nor. Van. Got. Rex. 16{illeg}95 about this stamp ✜. The weight 2dwt 1gr.
Two French Lewis's current only in the new conquests coyned 1687 wth this inscription about the head Lud XIIII D. G. Fr. et Naver. Rex & on ye revers about ye French arms quarteded wth a crown on ye scutcheon sit nomen Dom. benedictum 1687 & edged with Domine salvum fac regem christianissimum. The weight of one 12 + gr of ye o{illeg}ther {illeg}12dwt − gr. The assays
The last was the more worn
Another with this inscription about the head Henricus D. Gr. Dux Bruns. et Lunsbur. & on either side ye head 6... 0. for 1660. The weight 18dwt 10gr.
Another wth this inscription about ye head Max. Hen. D. G. ARC. Col. Prin. El. & on the Revers Ep. et Princ. Leod. Dux Bul. Mar. Fr. Colo. Ho. 1666. The weight 17dwt 14gr.
Another, a Crown piece of Edw VI coyned 1553 weighing 19dwt 12gr, & 11oz 1dwt fine & 19dwt allay, yt in wors 1dwt. Coynd at 5s 1d pr oz., or 12 crowns & {illeg} to yt pound weight.
Another of Phil IIII King of Spain & yt Indies 1636 Archduke & Duke of Burgund. & Brabant 1636 weight 10dwt 10gr
Eight three Guilder pieces of Holland stampt with a Minerva holding leaning on an Altar & holding a hat on a spere with this motto Hae nitimur hanc tuemur. On the reverse the Belgic Lyon & sometimes (vizt 1686 & 1687) the Lyon & erect Cross quartered. Assayed in yt Tower & weighed by me in Septemb 1700
Th | date | 1682, | 1687 | 1691 | 1695 | 1696 | 1697 | 1698 | |||||||||
weigh | 1oz | 4gr | 1oz | 7gr | 1oz | 5gr | 1oz | 6gr | 1oz | 11gr | 1oz | 5 | 1oz | 9gr | 1oz | 6gr | |
are worse | 1dwt | 1dwt | 1dwt | 1dwt | 2dwt | 1dwt | 1dwt | 1dwt |
Whence I reccon that they should be wors 1dwt & weigh 1oz 8gr or 10gr & so be worth 62 pence) or 62 pence when new coyned out are one with another worse 1dwt & weight more or less 1oz 6gr & if they be more worn they are still lighter so as one wth another to weigh but 1oz & 45 or 56gr. Mr Floyer reccons them 20dwt 6gr wors 4dwt., & in another paper 20dwt 8gr wors 3dwt.
Two German silver Ducats one inscribed Maximil Henry Archb Coloyne 1671 the other Iohn Lewis Archb Coloyne 1689 each weighing 1oz 15gr & being better iijdwt. They were assayed & weighed in ye Mint in Novemb 1700.
<20v>A Portugal Moeda di Ouro of stampt for 2000 Res but going for 24000 Res weighs 82gr exactly & is curiously coyned. Its
An Hungary Ducat is {illeg}bett{illeg}er 1car 2gr, {illeg}& weighs 32dwt 5gr & when new 2dwt 6gr.
Source
MINT 19/2/20, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UKca. 1702, c. 649 words.