December 28, 2016 -
Press Release June 25, 1968 The Treasury Department today transferred 165,000,000 fine troy ounces of silver to the stockpiles established pursuant to the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act. The transfer, which consisted of silver from Treasury stocks .999...
January 23, 2017 -
Press Release June 4, 1968 FOR USE IN ANSWER TO INQUIRIES (Prepared in concurrence with the Federal Reserve System) Since July 1967, when the Treasury Department ceased its sales of silver at $1.29 per ounce, the Treasury and the Federal...
December 28, 2016 -
Press Release May 13, 1968 FOR RELEASE MORNING NEWSPAPERS TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1968 The Treasury Department today published procedures governing the exchange of silver certificates for silver bullion during the remaining period of exchangeability, which ends June 24, 1968. After...
January 23, 2017 -
Press Release February 29, 1968 The Joint Commission on the Coinage will meet Friday, March 1, at 10:00 a.m. in room 4121 of the main Treasury Building, Washington. The purpose of the meeting will be to review the coinage and...
December 28, 2016 -
Press Release March 25, 1968 The Director of the Mint, Miss Eva Adams, announced today that the Mint will stop accepting orders for 1968 proof coin sets as soon as orders for three million sets have been received, which is...
December 28, 2016 -
Press Release March 17, 1968 Pursuant to agreements announced by the central banks of Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States in Washington on March 17, 1968, the Treasury Department has issued amendments of...
February 2, 2017 -
Press Release April 27, 1972 FOR RELEASE AT NOON, EST The United States Mint introduced its new White House medal at the Congressional Club’s annual noon breakfast in the nation’s capital in honor of the First Lady, Director of the...
January 23, 2017 -
At the Philadelphia Mint Independence Mall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 8, 1971, at 11:30 A.M. PROGRAM Welcoming Remarks * * * * Nicholas Theodore, Superintendent of the Philadelphia Mint Introductory Remarks* * * Mrs. Mary Brooks, Director of the Mint...
December 28, 2016 -
Press Release February 18, 1971 Mrs. Mary Brooks, Director of the Mint, announced today that the San Francisco Assay Office will begin accepting orders for 1971 Uncirculated Coin sets on March 1, 1971. Order cards are being mailed this week...
December 28, 2016 -
Press Release January 25, 1971 Several trial working dies of the obverse and reverse of the Eisenhower dollar coin have been prepared by the Mint’s engraver. Because dies of identical design may vary in height of relief and shape of...
