The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . hard Office—Horse Guards. Quarter-Master-General—Colonel James Office——Earl
The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . hard Office—Horse Guards. Quarter-Master-General—Colonel James Office——Earl Office—35, Great George Street, Westminster. Judge-Marshal and Advocate-General—Right Hon. Sir David rmy Medical Board Office—St. Jamess —Sir James MGrigor. THE MINT. 615 THE MINT. The Royal Mint is an extensive government edifice, in which thecoinage of the realm is managed. Here bullion is assayed, andmanufactured into specie, or money, for interchange in commerce,and in all adjustments of traffic between man and man. The build-ing is of the united skill of Mr. Johnson and. Sir Robert is a large and somewhat neat edifice, appropriately constructed,with suitable and extensive establishments for its purpose. It isarranged in three stories, having a centre, as seen in the annexedengraving, decorated with a pediment and columns with THE MINT The Royal Mint attained its constitution of superior officers in the eighteenth year of thereign of Edward II., and with very few alterations continued as then established till the year1815. Within these two or three years very important alterations and improvements have beenmade in its internal economy and management. It may not be uninteresting to know that by an abstract account of the coinage which theBank of England paid for gold and silver bullion year, from 1697 to 1811, it appearsthat as early as 1710 they paid M. per ounce for standard gold, and 5s. 3d. for
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