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 ...
Series: Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890; Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1856
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Decimal system; Coinage; Money
Notes: 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.

Signed (page 30): Theodore W. Rathbone.

Dated (page 30): January, 1856.

Imprint from page 30.

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 ...

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.

"Unpublished."

Reproduction of the original from the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, Senate House Library, University of London.

Shelfmark number: [G.L.] E.856.