Colonial Coins
United States of America
A memorial was presented to the Board by Mr. John Tysack, proposing that a Mint may be erected in some of the Plantations on the Continent of America as a means to remedy many of the inconveniencies in the trade of those parts, which was read, and he being further heard in what he had to offer, their Lordships after full consideration of the matter, did not think fit that any Mint should be erected there, but esteeming it generally convenient that all the coins currant in the Plantations should pass in all places at the same rate, they resolved in the first convenient opportunity to consider the difficulties that occur therein, and in what manner it may be best effected. -- Cecil Headlam, ed., Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, America and the West Indies. 1700. (Preserved in the Public Record Office, London: 1910, pp. 392-393, item 614)
