Catalogue description Royal Mint: Administration and Management

Records of the Royal Mint relating to administration of the Coinage Act.

They include correspondence and memoranda between the Master of the Mint and the Deputy Master, 1784 to 1850; correspondence with the Treasury and orders and memoranda of the Deputy Master and Controller, 1815 to 1909; minutes of the Mint Board, 1838 to 1851; charters, royal warrants and formal instruments, 1662 to 1770; indentures between the crown and the Master, 1601 to 1817; warrants authorising the continuation of the coinage, 1685 to 1851; orders of the Master and Deputy Master, 1850 to 1921; 0rders of the Privy Council, 1816 to 1871; regulations concerning the Mint and the coinage, and statutory rules and orders relating to the Mint, 1819-1909.