Lost Element

London, 1696. The old money is failing. Coins are clipped thin, trust is thinner, and the city is learning that a nation can be robbed one shaved edge at a time.Inside the Tower Mint, a young clerk works under Isaac Newton as the Great Recoinage turns London into a factory of survival: screw presses, collars, witness coins, cupels of bone ash, and ledgers that must be clean enough to stand in cour...