Popik makes a strong case, but I'd credit Martin with coinage and Fitzgerald with independent recoinage and early popularization.
12.
Branch mints were established at Bristol, Chester, Exeter, Norwich, and York to assist with the work of recoinage.
13.
The government needed to find a way to stabilise the currency, and the Great Recoinage was the first step in this process.
14.
The previous day, Linderman had ordered the mints to melt down twenty-cent pieces on hand, for recoinage into other denominations.
15.
The conversion rates were even then usually significantly below the intrinsic value of the coins, to cover costs of melting and recoinage etc.
16.
As a result of the recoinage, foreign coins, which were frequently used alongside the local currency, stopped being legal tender on 6 October 1707.
17.
As Warden, and afterwards Master, of the Royal Mint, Newton estimated that 20 percent of the coins taken in during the Great Recoinage of 1696 were counterfeit.
18.
As a consequence, the Bakufu lost the major profit source of recoinage ( seigniorage ), and was forced to issue unbacked paper money, leading to major inflation.
19.
After the mint moved from the Tower of London to Tower Hill the production of gold and silver coins took precedence over copper in the " Great Recoinage of 1816 ".
20.
As head officer of the Tower Mint, Stanley supervised the great Elizabethan recoinage which was planned from the beginning of the reign and was carried out between December 1560 and October 1561.
