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Auction: 14016 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 359

Exchequer Order of Payment, February 1696/7 to pay sixpence an ounce on 550 ozs. 5 dwt of hammered coin sent to Chester mint for recoinage named to Thomas Hall, possibly the London goldsmith, cut at right and bottom to remove signatures, very fine.

The great recoinage of 1696.The Mint had refused to take further supplies at face value of the old clipped and light hammered coins for recoining , causing hardship and riots in the country. It was forced to reopen, now taking the old coinage at the standard Mint price of 5s 2d an ounce plus this 6d "reward".

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