| Description | (This item is a small notebook with a brown leather cover. Inside the front cover is written the following inscription; 'This book was begun February 1787 & continued as a memorandum book until the middle of the year 1788.' The notebook contains observations, calculations and dated entries all relating to coinage. Pages of notes have headings such as; 'Price of silver in old Dollars, new Dollars and standard' and 'Exchange in Gold between England and Portugal.' Enclosed in the notebook is a newspaper cutting on copper coinage that begins; 'The King has finally issued his warrant to empower Mr Boulton, of Soho, to execute a considerable copper coinage of penny and two penny pieces.' The notes are written in at least two hands, one of which may be Samuel Garbett’s.) |