 | James Prinsep - 1834 - 310 pages
...architecture is Grecian.. Doric, the; central portico towards the Strand being a copy, on half- dimension*, of the temple of MINERVA at Athens. The whole was...and one of 14 horse power ; the coining presses are capable of striking 300,000 pieces* in a working-day of seven hours. The steam machinery, -the circular... | |
 | James Prinsep - 1840 - 312 pages
...Doric, the central portico towards the Strand being a copy, on half dimensions, of the temple O?MIKEBVA at Athens. The whole was completed in six years. The...and one of 14 horse power: the coining presses are capable of striking 300,000 pieces* in a working-day of seven hours. The steam machinery, the circular... | |
 | Walter Kelly Firminger - 1906 - 388 pages
...brick work below the ground than above it. " The central portico facing the Strand Road, was held to be "a copy, on half dimensions, of the temple of Minerva at Athens." The building was completed in six years, and was opened in 1831. Up to April 30th, 1833, twenty-four lacs... | |
 | 1907 - 506 pages
...of 26 feet below the floor of the mint. The architecture is Grecian Doric, the central portico being a copy, on half dimensions, of the Temple of Minerva at Athens. The building took six years to raise. It consists of twenty-nine rooms, and cost £160,000, exclusive of... | |
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O?MIKEBVA at Athens. The whole was completed in six years. The machinery comprises five steam-engines, viz. two of 40 horse, one of 24 horse, one of 20, and one of 14 horse power: the coining presses are capable of striking 300,000 pieces* in a working-day... 