The story of
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Series
Royal Mint: Quinquennial Series 7: Digitised Paper Files
Catalogue reference: MINT 42
What's it about?
MINT 42
The records in this series comprise digitised paper files from the Quinquennial Series 7. Manufacture and supply of coins, medals, seals and similar articles, 1992 introduction of smaller 10p coin, change of metal from bronze to copper plated...
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 42
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Title (The name of the record)
- Royal Mint: Quinquennial Series 7: Digitised Paper Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1992-1996
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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 7.
Manufacture and supply of coins, medals, seals and similar articles, 1992 introduction of smaller 10p coin, change of metal from bronze to copper plated steel 1p and 2p coin. Royal proclamation new £1 designs 1993-94. Design competition for £5 crown to commemorate the Queens 70th birthday.
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Royal Mint, 1279-1279
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 171 digital record(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 2021 Royal Mint
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Manufacturing
- Medals
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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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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 extends 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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Her Majesty?s Treasury (?HM Treasury?) owns 100% of the shares of The Royal Mint Limited through an Executive Agency, the Royal Mint Trading Fund. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the Master of the Mint and the Chief Executive Officer the Deputy Master.
The legislative framework is provided by the Coinage Act 1971 and Royal Proclamations. The Royal Mint became a trading fund 1st April 1975 under the Royal Mint Trading Fund Order 1975 and then Executive Agency 1st April 1990 under the initiative announced by the Prime Minister in February 1988.
From 1992 to 1996, 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; Finance and Corporate Services Director, Sales Director, Marketing Director, Operations Director and Human Resources and Establishment Officer.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17567333/
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