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 on the mint and coinage, 1804 September 14
- Earl Russell letter on the design of the florin, 1847 December 2
- Sir Charles Wood letter on the inscription of the florin, 1849 October 19
- Case Billingsley and John Billingsley letters on coinage, 1730-1732
- Transcripts relating to French coinage, 1554-1720
- George Chalmers’ proposals for coinage, 1558
- Dutch coinage instructions, c1580
- Treatise on the Royal Mint by Sir Richard Martin, 1603
- Indenture appointing Thomas Neale to the Royal Mint, 1686
- Hopton Haynes allegations of corrupted coinage, 1700-1702
- English coinage and Royal Mint papers, 1722-1774
- Irish coinage papers, 1724
- Henry Hucks Gibbs correspondence on bimetallism, 1876-1884
- Royal Mint papers, 1729-1770
- Royal Mint papers and tables, 1740-1748
- Treatise on the creation of silver coinage, 1807
- Coinage memoranda book on replacement of silver coinage, 1817-1824
- Rogers Ruding volume on coinage legislation, 1817-1818
Counterfeiting
- Tables relating to the Royal Mint, c1573
- Grand Jury indictment relating to counterfeit notes, 1815
- Tracts on coinage, 1613-1633