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Title: Medals and coins honoring Sir Isaac Newton
Dates (inclusive): 1667-1951
Bulk dates: 1730-1800
Collection Number: mssBabsonMedals
Extent:
39 items in 3 boxes.
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Rare Books Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: The Medals and coins honoring Sir Isaac Newton collection contains
various medallions, medals and coins, some in plaster replica which chiefly depict Isaac Newton.
Language: English.
Note:
Finding aid last updated on April 5, 2018.
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[Identification of item]. Babson College's Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton.The Huntington Library,
San Marino, CA.
On long term-loan from Babson College's Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton, November 2006
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Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was an English astronomer, mathemetician, theologian and natural philosopher. Newton was appointed
Warden of the Royal Mint in 1696, and later became Master of the Mint in 1699, a post which he held until his death in 1727.
During his tenure, he oversaw the Great Recoinage of the nation's silver currency.
Collection of medals and coins commemorating Sir Isaac Newton's achievements at the Royal Mint and scientific endeavors. The
collection contains various medals, medallions and coins (some in plaster replica) depicting posthumous tributes to Newton
issued by the Royal Mint, Wedgwood and other private sources, chiefly between 1730 and 1800. It also includes a plaster replica
of a medal honoring William Stukeley (1687-1765), Newton's first biographer, and coinage representing Newton's tenure at the
Mint.
Related materials in the Huntington Library
- Forms part of Babson College's Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton on long term-loan to the Huntington
The collection is arranged in three boxes primarily by size. Box 3 contains smaller portrait medals and coins. The original
housing for the coins and smaller medals, including any notes and numbering from the Babson collection, have been preserved
in mylar enclosures alongside the items.
Technical Details
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 -- Medals.
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 -- Numismatics.
Stukeley, William, 1687-1765 -- Medals.
Coins, British.
Coins (Money).
Medallions (Medals).