The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 2, January 11, 2004, Article 23

FEATURED WEB PAGE

  This week's featured web page is The Royal Mint's page
  about Isaac Newton's tenure at the mint.

  "The Mint was then in the Tower of London and it was
  accordingly to the Tower that Newton came in April 1696
  to take up his new duties. It was a time of great activity.
  The Mint was grappling with the recoinage of old silver
  coins that dated back to the reign of Elizabeth and even
  to earlier reigns.

  In 1699 the post of Master of the Mint fell vacant.. The
  post was offered to Newton and he took up his duties
  with effect from Christmas Day 1699, his fifty-seventh
  birthday. Surviving the political upheavals of the early
  eighteenth century, he remained as Master until his death
  in March 1727 and for the last thirty years of his life he
  therefore occupied high position in the Mint.

  Even after the completion of the recoinage of the 1690s
  there was much to do. Coins and coronation medals had
  to be prepared following the accession of Queen Anne in
  1702, and then came the coining of the booty from Vigo
  Bay in 1703. In 1707 the Union of the Kingdoms of
  England and Scotland required the assimilation of the
  old Scottish coinage to that of England as well as the
  methods of the Edinburgh mint to those of the mint in
  the Tower.
     http://www.royalmint.com/about/newton.asp

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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