Statement submitted to the Right Honourable Her Majesty's Commissioners appointed to consider how far it may be practicable and advisable to introduce the principle of decimal division into the coinage of the United Kingdom ...
| Author/creator | Rathbone, Theodore William author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1856] |
| Manufacture | Liverpool : George M'Corquodale and Co., printers, 1856. |
| Description | 1 online resource (30 pages). |
| Supplemental Content | Gale, Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890 |
| Supplemental Content | Gale, Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890 |
| Subjects |
| Series | Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890 Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890. UNAUTHORIZED |
| General note | First-Of a plan for accomplishing this object with the least possible interference with what now exists, and at the same time in the most effectual and comprehensive manner; Secondly-Of a comparison of the results of this scheme with those of each of the various other plans which have been proposed with the same object. |
| General note | Signed (page 30): Theodore W. Rathbone. |
| General note | Dated (page 30): January, 1856. |
| General note | Imprint from page 30. |
| General note | Includes: Minutes of the evidence taken before the Decimal Coinage Commission ... Theodore W. Rathbone, esq., examined ... . - Questions drawn up by ... Lord Overstone with the view of bringing under distinct notice and examination some of the advantages of our present system of coinage ... |
| General note | The additional matter in this edition (p31-98), although paginated and signed to follow on to the original pamphlet, was printed later, presumably in 1857, after the Preliminary Report of the Decimal Coinage Commissioners and the Questions communicated by Lord Overstone - Cf. Goldsmiths' Lib. cat. |
| General note | "Unpublished." |
| General note | Reproduction of the original from the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, Senate House Library, University of London. |
| General note | Shelfmark number: [G.L.] E.856. |
| General note | Presented by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, 1903. |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |