Jasper Atkinson to Faraday   11 May 18351

My dear Sir,

As you stated last Saturday the smallest amount that we had coined in Gold in any given year2, I have the pleasure of giving you some idea of what has been done in Silver, which, I think, will a little astonish the young ladies and gentlemen & I also think it will show how very superior our Mint is to that in Paris, which has been reckoned the most effective in the World.

Believe me to remain | Yours very truly Jas Atkinson

36 Nottingham Place

11 May 1835

1
Jasper Atkinson (1790-1856, Ann.Reg.,1856, 275). Official of the Royal Mint.
2
That is 9 May 1835. This was Faraday's second lecture on "On gold and platina" in his eight lecture course "On the chemical and physical properties of the common metals". There is no mention of these figures in Faraday's notes RI MS F4I M1835, p.7.

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