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Mint Engravers’ Recollection of the Kennedy Half-Dollar Production

January 23, 2017 - Letter to Director Adams from Acting Philadelphia Mint Superintendent April 30, 1964 Miss Eva B. Adams Director of the Mint Washington, D.C. 20220 Dear Miss Adams: In response to your telephone request of April 27, 1964, enclosed are Mr. Roberts’...

The History of Presidents on Our Coins

December 28, 2016 - Nuggets from the Vault July 2006 In 2009, the United States Mint will join the nation in celebrating the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. Our 16th President was a man who, in a time of great division, remained wholly dedicated...

The Mint at New Orleans

December 28, 2016 - Excerpt from Annual Report of the Director of the Mint to the Secretary of the Treasury Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1878 Washington: Government Printing Office, 1878, Page 8 – 9. – Historical Reference Collection, United States Mint. At the...

Precautions Against Counterfeiting

December 28, 2016 - Excerpt from Annual Report of the Director of the Mint to the Secretary of the Treasury Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1878 Washington: Government Printing Office, 1878, Page 9-10. – Historical Reference Collection, United States Mint. I have long been...

Transfer of Stamped Mint-Bars to the Treasury

December 28, 2016 - Excerpt from Annual Report of the Director of the Mint to the Secretary of the Treasury Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1874 Washington: Government Printing Office, 1874, Page 8. – Historical Reference Collection, United States Mint An act authorizing in...

Circulation of the Mexican Silver Dollar

December 28, 2016 - Excerpt from Annual Report of the Director of the Mint to the Secretary of the Treasury Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1878 Washington: Government Printing Office, 1878, Page 12-13. – Historical Reference Collection, United States Mint After trade-dollars could no...

Proposed Issue of a Twenty-Cent Coin

December 28, 2016 - Excerpt from Annual Report of the Director of the Mint to the Secretary of the Treasury Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1874. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1874, Page 9 – 10.– Historical Reference Collection, United States Mint. A bill authorizing...

Coinage for Foreign Governments

December 28, 2016 - Excerpt from Annual Report of the Director of the Mint to the Secretary of the Treasury for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1874. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1874. Page 8. – Historical Reference Collection, United States Mint Under the...

Operations of the Year

December 28, 2016 - Excerpt from Annual Report of the Director of the Mint to the Secretary of the Treasury Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1906 Washington: Government Printing Office, 1906, Page 5. – Historical Reference Collection United States Mint. The operations of the...

The Great Earthquake and Fire

January 23, 2017 - Excerpt from Annual Report of the Director of the Mint to the Secretary of the Treasury Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1906 Washington: Government Printing Office, 1906, Page 42-43. – Historical Reference Collection United States Mint. The mint escaped destruction...