Weighing Office at the Bank of England 1845

There was a crisis at the Bank of England in the early nineteenth century when it was discovered that a large proportion of the 8, 000, 000 gold sovereigns in circulation were light. Enormous efforts were made to ascertain the exact weight of coins and many ingenious balances were invented

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