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COINS. 
In a Report issued in April 1697 it stated that in the mint at 
York lay dead very great sums of hammered money uncoined. 
The deficiency at York was above ^2,800. There was lost in 
the melting down of the clipped and hammered money, 2040 lbs. 
in weight in the standardizing. Mr. Barton was the deputy 
comptroller of the York mint. 
Major Wyvill, the mint master, built a house in Blake Street, 
and died there in 1717, aged 70. The house is that which is 
occupied as offices by Messrs. Cowling and Swift, solicitors. 
During the reign of George III. the copper coinage was deficient, 
and tradesmen’s tokens again made their appearance, of which the 
last York one is dated 1814. 
A consideration of our local coinage has added much to the 
history of our country. Coins are small but endurable, and thus 
have preserved information that is unrecorded elsewhere. 
