New History of the Royal Mint
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- Author(s) Challis, Christopher E (ed)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1992
- Pages 806+xxi pp; illus
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
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- City London
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- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Commissioned by Cambridge University Press. Scholarly collected essays not dealing with the Mint's products but focusing on 'the development of the institution itself from the origins of English minting in the seventeenth century down to the highly mechanised factory production of today'. Comprises five substantial essays: 1] Ian Stewart, 'English and Norman mints, c600-1158' [pp1-82]; N J Mayhew, 'From regional to central minting, 1158-1468' [pp83-178]; C E Challis, 'Lord Hastings and the great silver recoinage, 1464-1699' [pp179-397]; G P Dyer & P P Gaspar, 'Reform, the new technology and Tower Hill, 1700-1966' [pp398-606]; C E Challis, 'A new beginning. Llantrisant' [pp607-72]. Extensive appendices give details of 'Mint output, 1220-1985' and 'Mint contracts, 1279-1817'