Requests a pyx trial for the coming summer, it being three years since the last one
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To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesties Treasury.
May it please your Lordships
There having been coined almost a million and an half in gold & silver since the last trial of the Pix which was three years ago, I humbly pray that the Pix of this coinage may be tried this summer
Which is most humbly submitted to your Lordships great wisdome
Mint Office Iune 18th 1724.
Isaac Newton
Source
MINT 19/1/233, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK18 June 1724, c. 74 words.