Series
Royal Mint: Quinquennial Series 4: Digitised Paper Files
Catalogue reference: MINT 34
What's it about?
MINT 34
The records in this series comprise digitised paper files from the Quinquennial Series 4.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MINT 34
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Title (The name of the record)
- Royal Mint: Quinquennial Series 4: Digitised Paper Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1977-1981
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Description (What the record is about)
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The records in this series comprise digitised paper files from the Quinquennial Series 4.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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References for born digital records are automatically generated and display a 'Z' after a forward slash, which distinguish them from traditional references allocated to paper and digitised records. Records in this series were transferred with born digital referencing because they had been digitised for business use before transfer took place.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 931 digital record(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 2016 Royal Mint
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- The records were stored in the Royal Mint facility in Llantrisant, Wales. The records information had to be digitised after a fire at this facility in 2008 smoke-damaged the files. The paper records were destroyed. These records were digitised by the department for business purposes, subsequently used digitally and later transferred to The National Archives as born-digital records.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1977 to 1981
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals are anticipated.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- OSP22 - The Records of the Royal Mint, 1975-2000. Selection criteria and topics covered in these files are described in 'OSP22 - The Records of the Royal Mint, 1975 - 2000', Table 2. However, the files codes in Table 2 only extend from 1972 to 1991; a new set of registry file codes covering file series 7 to 9 (inclusive) which seem not to have changed to tri-annual, was introduced from 1992 to 2001.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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From 1977 to 1981, the Royal Mint was arranged organisationally into the following business units: Office of the Master of the Mint (Chancellor of the Exchequer); Deputy Master and Comptroller; Secretary and Establishment Officer; Superintendent; Financial Controller; Director of Marketing and Sales; Director of Production and Chemist and Assayer.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16303892/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: MINT
Records of the Royal Mint
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Royal Mint: Quinquennial Series 4: Digitised Paper Files