The name of Isaac Newton, the greatest scientist who discovered the law of universal gravitation, knows any child. But not everyone knows that the mathematician and astronomer, philosopher and alchemist Newton in the era of the most severe financial crisis in England in the 1690s actually headed the Royal Mint. Fighting counterfeiters, he took on London's most authoritative crook, William Chaloner, and was willing to do anything to track him down and send him to the gallows.