April 29, 2026
The Royal Mint Papers

The Jersey Copper Coinage
of 1861

Correspondence from 23 July 1861 to 21 August 1862

Nine manuscript letters and accounts tracing the completion of the remaining £1,000 portion of the copper coinage for the States of Jersey — from the original request of July 1861, through the negotiation of copper supply with Messrs. Heaton of Birmingham, Treasury authorisation, striking at the Royal Mint, and final settlement of the account in August 1862.

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Jersey / States of Jersey
HM Treasury
Royal Mint
Ralph Heaton & Sons, Birmingham