@article{525136,
      note = {With a final advertisement leaf.},
      author = {Hatton, Thomas,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/525136},
      title = {An essay on gold coin. In which is shewn the general use  of currency, and the present state of our gold coin; with  Arguments to prove the Necessity of a New Coinage; pointing  out the distinct Value and Weight that each Piece of Gold  ought to be of. Also the principles of hydrostatics,  Shewing how to discover any Adulteration in Gold Coin,  either by the Pen, or Tables ready calculated to shew the  Par of Weight of each Piece, either in Air or Water. With a  description and use of the most improved weighing  instruments; shewing their Properties when really accurate.  Intended For the Service of Bankers, Public Offices, and  Trade in General. To this Edition is subjoined the  Substance of the late Gold Act; with Answers to the very  severe Strictures upon it, &c. in a Tract intitled A  Critical Enquiry, &c. By Thomas Hatton, Author of a  Treatise upon Clock and Watch Work. [electronic resource]  :},
      publisher = {printed for Joseph Deveulle, Bookseller, No 14, Coventry  Street, near the Haymarket,},
      recid = {525136},
      pages = {viii,74,[2]p. ;},
      address = {London :},
      year = {1774},
}