Catalogue description Treasury: Papers of Working Party concerning the Coinage Act 1946

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Reference: T 264
Title: Treasury: Papers of Working Party concerning the Coinage Act 1946
Description:

Correspondence, minutes and papers of the working party set up by direction of the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Anderson) in 1945 to consider the future of the imperial silver coinage. The bill papers in connection with this act are included in this series. There is also a short memorandum, a telegram and a letter from Lord Keynes.
Date: 1945-1946
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See also Division within MINT
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
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Treasury Working Party on the future of imperial silver coinage, 1945-1946
Physical description: 1 volume(s)
Administrative / biographical background:

In 1945 a working party, under the chairmanship of Sir Herbert Brittain, was set up by direction of the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Anderson) to consider the future of the imperial silver coinage. Its recommendations gave rise to the Coinage Act 1946 which provided for the substitution of cupro-nickel coin for silver.

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