The Royal Mint

Isaac Newton, by the way, he didn't just discover calculus and the laws of planetary motion.

He was also the head of the British Mint and put Britain on the gold standard in the early 18th.

18th century, sorry, 17th century.

So you have to look to the formation of the Bank of England, Sir Isaac Newton, and other elements at the time.

Wow

... for the Royal Mint.

Um, so it was a really stressful time [laughs] for me.

Yeah.

When the Norman conquest finally arrived in 1066, it built upon this established infrastructure.

William I continued to mint silver pennies under the Royal Mint in Westminster, ensuring continuity while also introducing new legal frameworks for taxation that would eventually pave the way for the flourishing coinage system of Edward Y and later the House of Plantagenet.

The seeds laid during Anglo-Saxon times, a system where kings could project authority through coins, subjects could calculate tax obligations against a standard measure of wealth, merchants could trade along established routes with a trusted currency, thus set the stage for Britain's development into a nation in which money was not just an abstract concept but a living instrument of state power and economic integration.

Thanks for joining me as we peel back the layers of Britain's past.

So much so that having been employed by the British government to recoin the whole of the British specie, he rendered counterfeits nearly impossible by the economy and excellence of his work.

In addition to this, Mr. Bolton planned and directed the arrangement of the machinery in the British Mint, and executed that for the coining department.

He also constructed the machinery for the great national mints of St. Petersburg and Copenhagen.

His son, to whom the establishment at Soho devolved upon his death, doing the same for the extensive and splendid establishments of the East India Company at Bombay and Calcutta.

And now, Dr. Watson, about the epilogue to The Adventure of the Corpse in the Roman Toga.

The officers of the Royal Mint tended Holmes and myself a dinner in recognition of our invaluable services in breaking up a counterfeiting outfit which had threatened the value of British currency.

Holmes received a large illuminated scroll and a, a sizable check.

Always acceptably, Dr. Watson.

[music] And now, Dr. Watson, about the epilogue to the Adventure of the Corpse in the Roman Toga.

The officers of the Royal Mint tendered Holmes and myself a dinner in recognition of our invaluable services in breaking up a counterfeiting outfit which had threatened the value of British currency.

Holmes received a large, illuminated scroll and a, a sizable check.

Always acceptable, eh, Dr. Watson?