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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 2322836, member: 71234&quot;]If anyone is interested enough, Samuel Pepys was very interested in the new coinage, and also the withdrawal and recoining of the old coinage. In the Diary there is quite a lot of detail on these subjects from a contemporary point of view.</p><p><br /></p><p>S.P. was a senior enough goverment official to go and have a look round the mint if he wanted to so he did.</p><p><br /></p><p>He also attempts to calculate just how much coinage was in circulation and roughly what it is made up of. My set of the Diary is not handy at the moment but I am sure anyone interested could find the references from the index.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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