| Description | 'Mint. Oct. 1st 1789.' (This item is a small hardback notebook with a green cover. On the cover is written the preceding inscription. The notebook contains observations, calculations, and diagrams relating to coinage and the Mint. Pages of notes have headings such as; 'Operations in coining copper' , 'Tools and conveniences wanted to be made' and 'American Mint salaries.' Enclosed in the notebook is a newspaper cutting of an announcement on 'Counterfeit Copper Coins' by Messrs Philips Deakin and Samuel Thomas, Constables of Wolverhampton.) |