Archives on coins and counterfeiting

This guide to archives relating to coins, coinage and counterfeiting is not intended to be exhaustive. It complements the archives catalogue, which includes a subject search facility.

Coins and coinage

• Sir Joseph Banks letter, ref: AL1, date(s): 1804 September 14
• Earl Russell letter, ref: AL105, date(s): 1847 December 2
• Sir Charles Wood letter, ref: AL119, date(s): 1849 October 19
• Case Billingsley and John Billingsley letters, ref: AL5, date(s): 1730-1732
• Transcripts relating to French coinage, ref: MS12, date(s): 1554-1720
• Chalmers, George, ref: MS13, date(s): 1558
• Dutch coinage instructions, ref: MS16, date(s): c1580
• Treatise on the Royal Mint by Sir Richard Martin, ref: MS21, date(s): 1603
• Indenture appointing Thomas Neale to the Royal Mint, ref: MS51, date(s): 1686
• Hopton Haynes manuscript volume, ref: MS72, date(s): 1700-1702
• English coinage and Royal Mint papers, ref: MS100, date(s): 1722-1774
• Henry Hucks Gibbs correspondence, ref: AL272, date(s): 1876-1884
• Sir C W Fremantle letter, ref: AL50, date(s): 1878 December 11
• Royal Mint papers, 1729-1770, ref: MS102, date(s): 1729-1770
• Royal Mint papers and tables, 1740-1748, ref: MS108, date(s): 1740-1748
• Treatise on the creation of silver coinage, ref: MS151, date(s): 1807
• Coinage memoranda book, ref: MS499, date(s): 1817-1824
• Rogers Ruding manuscript volume, ref: MS154, date(s): 1817-1818

Counterfeiting

• Tables relating to the Royal Mint, ref: MS14, date(s): c1573
• Grand Jury indictment relating to counterfeit notes, ref: MS237, date(s): 1815
• Tracts on coinage, ref: MS27, date(s): 1613-1633