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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 2993619, member: 85693"]Interesting idea - and some great coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>How about a 1696 Crown of King William III for Sir Isaac Newton? And three ugly sixpences showing London and the Norwich and Chester branch mints.</p><p><br /></p><p>From Wikipedia:</p><p><br /></p><p>Newton moved to London to take up the post of warden of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Mint" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Mint" rel="nofollow">Royal Mint</a> in 1696, a position that he had obtained through the patronage of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Montagu,_1st_Earl_of_Halifax" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Montagu,_1st_Earl_of_Halifax" rel="nofollow">Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax</a>, then <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer" rel="nofollow">Chancellor of the Exchequer</a>. He took charge of England's great recoining, somewhat treading on the toes of Lord Lucas, Governor of the Tower (and securing the job of deputy <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comptroller" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comptroller" rel="nofollow">comptroller</a> of the temporary Chester branch for Edmond Halley). Newton became perhaps the best-known <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_the_Mint" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_the_Mint" rel="nofollow">Master of the Mint</a> upon the death of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Neale" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Neale" rel="nofollow">Thomas Neale</a> in 1699, a position Newton held for the last 30 years of his life.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton#cite_note-Mint-72" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton#cite_note-Mint-72" rel="nofollow">[72]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton#cite_note-73" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton#cite_note-73" rel="nofollow">[73]</a> These appointments were intended as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinecure" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinecure" rel="nofollow">sinecures</a>, but Newton took them seriously, retiring from his Cambridge duties in 1701, and exercising his power to reform the currency and punish <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debasement" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debasement" rel="nofollow">clippers</a> and counterfeiters.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]739228[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 2993619, member: 85693"]Interesting idea - and some great coins. How about a 1696 Crown of King William III for Sir Isaac Newton? And three ugly sixpences showing London and the Norwich and Chester branch mints. From Wikipedia: Newton moved to London to take up the post of warden of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Mint']Royal Mint[/URL] in 1696, a position that he had obtained through the patronage of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Montagu,_1st_Earl_of_Halifax']Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax[/URL], then [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer']Chancellor of the Exchequer[/URL]. He took charge of England's great recoining, somewhat treading on the toes of Lord Lucas, Governor of the Tower (and securing the job of deputy [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comptroller']comptroller[/URL] of the temporary Chester branch for Edmond Halley). Newton became perhaps the best-known [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_the_Mint']Master of the Mint[/URL] upon the death of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Neale']Thomas Neale[/URL] in 1699, a position Newton held for the last 30 years of his life.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton#cite_note-Mint-72'][72][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton#cite_note-73'][73][/URL] These appointments were intended as [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinecure']sinecures[/URL], but Newton took them seriously, retiring from his Cambridge duties in 1701, and exercising his power to reform the currency and punish [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debasement']clippers[/URL] and counterfeiters. [ATTACH=full]739228[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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