Draft of MINT00305 (Mint 19/2/205)

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To the Right Honourable the Earl of Oxford & Earl Mortimer Lord High Treasurer of great Britain.

May it please your Lordship

By the weight & assay of forreign coins formerly taken in the Mint, Mexico pieces of eight, one with another, are worth 4s 6d sterling in intrinsic value, & Sevil pieces of eight (old plate) are of the same intrinsic value with those of Mexico. And according to this value, eight hundred eighty eight thousand eight hundred & eighty nine pieces of eight of either Mexico or Sevil (old plate) are worth two hundred thousand pounds & six pence sterling.

All which &c

Mint Office.
Iune 8th 1711.

Is. Newton.

Pieces of $\frac{\mathrm{8}}{\mathrm{8}}$ are more worn then the English milled money, & I have made no allowance for the difference of wearing.

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The value of Mexico & Sevil Dollars.