Further holograph draft of MINT00761 (Mint 19/3/332)

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To the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Councill appointed to consider of his Majestys Coronation.

May it please your Lordships

In obedience to your Lordships Order that I should lay before your Lordships an account of the Medals made upon the last Coronation & of the time requisite to make Medals upon the present occasion: I most humbly represent that twelve hundred Medals of silver & three hundred of gold were then made by Order of Councill & delivered to the Treasurer of the Houshold to be distributed at the Coronation, & that upon the Queens Order signified by the Lord Treasurers Warrant five hundred & fifteen Medals of gold were made afterwards for the House of Commons then sitting & delivered to their Speaker, & forty more of gold were delivered to my Lord Chamberlain, for forreign Ministers. A pound weight of fine Gold was cut into 20 Medals & a pound weight of fine silver into 22 Medalls. But the forreign Ministers (except the Agents & Consuls) had Medals of double the value. At the Coronation of King Wm there were only 200 medals of ☉ made by Order of Council.

After the form of the Medalls & of his Majestys Effigies is setled, it will take up about a Calendar month to make the Puncheons & three or four days more to make the Dyes & coyne the Medalls by the Mill & Press. And if either of the Puncheons should break as it sometimes happens it would take up a fortnight more to repair the loss. The Coynage Duty being appropriated, there should be money advanced out of the civil List for buying ☉ & ☽.

If the Impression is to rise high like that of the Medalls made upon the late peace, the medalls must be coyned in a ring, & to Make the Puncheons & Dyes & coyne 15 hundred medalls of this sort will take up six weeks & if either of the puncheons should break it would take up two months. And the medalls much be weightier that there may be substance to make the Impression rise high. Sixteen Medalls of this sort will require a pound weight of fine gold, & twenty a pound weight of fine silver.