This article uses the records at the Royal Mint to explore how Isaac Newton worked with metal beyond his alchemical and natural philosophical pursuits. It demonstrates how institutional paperwork can be used to think in new ways about the management of working resources as well as the relationship of material and mental practices across the linked urban worlds of state, science and finance. It reveals how Newton negotiated artisanal and administrative skills through a learned ‘practical objectivity’, unable to rely wholly upon his scientific reputation or mathematical ability when working with men and metals within a government department. Finally, it illuminates how Newton's activities at the Mint intersected and influenced a growing interest in the pursuit of scholarly antiquarianism as well as commercial geology, mining, metallurgy and metrology in the early eighteenth century.

本文使用皇家铸币厂的记录来探索艾萨克牛顿如何在他的炼金术和自然哲学追求之外使用金属。它展示了如何利用机构文书工作以新的方式思考工作资源的管理以及国家、科学和金融等相互联系的城市世界中物质和精神实践的关系。它揭示了牛顿如何通过学习的“实际客观性”来谈判手工和管理技能，在政府部门内与男性和金属打交道时，他无法完全依赖他的科学声誉或数学能力。最后，它阐明了牛顿在铸币厂的活动如何交叉并影响了人们对追求学术古董以及商业地质、采矿、