December 28, 2016 -
Press Release August 13, 1971 Mrs. Mary Brooks, Director of the Mint, will present to Dr. John E. Wickman, Director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas, a pair of the galvanos of the new Eisenhower dollar coin...
January 23, 2017 -
Press Release December 31, 1970 The 1970 coinage legislation provides for the minting of a dollar coin bearing the likeness of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, removing the silver content from the half dollar and the sale on a bid...
December 28, 2016 -
Press Release September 11, 1972 Secretary of the Treasury George P. Schultz conferred his Department’s highest award given to employees who distinguish themselves beyond their required duties to Mrs. Mary Brooks, Director of the Mint, at the 1972 Annual Awards...
December 28, 2016 -
March 23, 1972 Mrs. Brooks Statement: I have never been so thrilled and I feel a tremendous sense of responsibility and satisfaction that we have finally come home again to the Old Mint. The fact that our services have grown...
January 23, 2017 -
Rochester, New York, August 27, 1970, at 11:00 a.m., EDT It is indeed a pleasure to participate in this ceremony for the Woman Suffrage postage stamp. Rochester, where Susan B. Anthony is buried, certainly is an apt locale for observing...
December 28, 2016 -
Press Release March 31, 1972 Mrs. Mary Brooks, Director of the Mint, will be in San Francisco on Wednesday, April 5, 1972, to accept the deed and key to the Old San Francisco Mint at Fifth and Mission Streets from...
December 28, 2016 -
Press Release January 19, 1971 For the first time in its history, the U.S. Mint is permitting the news media to witness the trial strike of a coin as well as the designing and engraving process. On Monday, January 25,...
December 28, 2016 -
Dear Friend: Thank you for your recent letter: As you know now, the Congress overwhelmingly approved legislation proposed by President Johnson, to place the likeness of our late President on the fifty cent piece. The Kennedy coin is not a...
December 28, 2016 -
Dear Friend: It is with a sense of privilege I reply to your recommendation that a coin of the United States be struck in honor of our late President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The Mint is receiving hundreds of suggestions, such...
January 23, 2017 -
Dear Friend: Thank you for your recent inquiry: On December 30, 1963, President Johnson signed into law a bill directing the Mint to proceed with the production of a new half dollar bearing the likeness of President John F. Kennedy....
