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	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Branch Mint at Dahlonega
		The Branch Mint at Dahlonega was one of three mints chartered by the U.S. Congress in 1835.
		The director of the United States Mint in Philadelphia complained that the institution in Dahlonega was a "neighborhood mint." Certainly, it was in the thick of politics.
		The mint superintendent was always a partisan of whatever party was in office, and the jobs of assayer and coiner, requiring skills largely absent on the frontier, eventually became political plums as well.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-612 (678 words)

	About Coins Lone Star Mint
		Mint luster is usually seen only in the protected areas of the coin's surface such as between letters in the legend, around stars, or between the numerals in the date.
		The mint mark is a small letter typically found on the reverse side of the coin (starting in 1982 the United States Mint began putting mint marks for all mints on the obverse side of the coins).
		Mint marks are therefore of utmost importance to collectors because the coinage amount at the branch mints has usually been much smaller than at the Philadelphia Mint.
	www.lsmint.com /AboutCoins.html (3313 words)

	History of the U.S. Mint - Coin World
		The private Clark, Gruber and Co. Mint in Denver was purchased by the Federal government in 1863 and extensively remodeled.
		Although officially designated a Branch Mint, it served instead as an Assay Office, weighing and analyzing the purity of precious metals brought to its front doors, and producing bars and ingots.
		A new Mint was built in Denver at the turn of the century, opening for coining in 1906.
	www.coinworld.com /ebay/NewCollector/ebayMintHistory.asp (931 words)

	Mint Report for 1850
		SIR: In compliance with the 2d section of the mint act of January 18, 1837, I have the honor to make a report to you of the operations of the mint and branch mints during the past year.
		The coinage of the principal mint in 1850 amounted to $27,756,445½ in gold, $409,600 in silver, and $44,467½ in copper coins, and was composed of 10,039,535 pieces.
		The coinage at the four mints was $33,892,306, comprising $31,981,738½ in gold, $1,866,100 in silver, and $44,467½ in copper coins, and composed of 14,588,220 pieces.
	www.ece.iit.edu /~prh/coins/lib/usmnt/1850/mr.html (1337 words)

	: : Historic Houses Trust - Royal Mint Sydney Branch 1853 - 1927 : :
		After Federation of the Australian states, the formation of the Commonwealth Mint resulted in the consolidation of the various mints and in 1926, with declining profits and inadequate machinery, the Sydney Branch of the Royal Mint was closed.
		The establishment of the Sydney branch of the Royal Mint coincided with the appointment of Sir William Denison as Governor of New South Wales.
		The Sydney Mint was an important contributor to this development, at least in the 1850s and 1860sm through the training and talents of particular members of its staff and through the spirit of experimentation and enquiry cultivated within The Mint establishment.
	www.hht.net.au /museums/the_mint/history/royal_mint_sydney (1208 words)

	Mint Report for 1855
		The operations of the mint, except the receiving of deposits and melting, assaying, and paying the same, were suspended on the 19th of July last, at which time the repairs authorized by an appropriation made by the last Congress to the mint building were commenced.
		The deposits received at the branch mint at New Orleans amounted to $2,852,510 69; of which the sum of $431,156 83 was in gold, and $2,420,953 86 in silver.
		At the branch mint at Charlotte, the sum of $216,988 86 was deposited for coinage; the coinage, comprised in 53,268 pieces, amounted to $217,935 50.
	www.ece.iit.edu /~prh/coins/lib/usmnt/1855/mr.html (5565 words)

	GovMint.com - The Denver Mint
		In January of 1862, the U.S. Treasury Department proposed the establishment of a branch mint at Denver.
		Completed in 1904, the Mint’s opening was delayed because the new machinery to be used at the Mint was first sent to the St. Louis Exposition of 1904 for display.
		By 1906, coining presses were finally striking coins for release to the public, advancing the status of the Denver Mint facility to Branch Mint.
	www.govmint.com /knowledgebase/denvermint.aspx (587 words)

	Mint Marks on US Coins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The first appearance of the P mint mark was in 1942 on the Jefferson nickel.
		The first coins to be struck outside of the Philadelphia mint were coined at the new Charlotte mint.
		Dahlonega Mint: This was the second of the Southern branch mints.
	www.geocities.com /orionslayer (342 words)

	Carson City Mint
		The CC Mint also declined to produce gold dollars, quarter eagles ($2.50) and three-dollar pieces, though all of these denominations were current during most of the mint's period of operation.
		It also seemed that every congressman wanted a mint in his own district, and the high cost of minting coins in Nevada was cited as grounds for closing it and opening a new mint closer to some population center.
		The first Democrat to hold this office during the mint's years of operation, his election was correctly seen as a threat to the livelihoods of the mint's officers, all of whom were faithful members of the Republican Party.
	www.tulving.com /carsonct.html (4077 words)

	San Francisco Historical Society - History of the Old Mint
		Mint Director James Ross Snowden, who had taken office in 1853, was in charge of putting the mint into operation.
		After minting operations were transferred to the new San Francisco Mint on Duboce Avenue in 1937, the Treasury Department and other government agencies occupied the building.
		By the spring of 1969, the Old Mint was declared a government surplus building and San Francisco State College asked to be given the building so that it could use the property for a new campus.
	www.sfhistory.org /index.php?pageid=32 (1041 words)

	The Dahlonega Mint - Dahlonega, Georgia
		In the early 1830's, the lack of regional minting facilities in the South led to Congress authorizing acute shortage of minted coins proved to be a severe limitation to everyone living in the South.
		The Mint director in Dahlonega supervised a small staff of just three men who took the raw gold from the smelting stage through to the final striking of gold coins.
		Coining continued under the authority of the state of Georgia and 1,597 half eagles were coined at the “D Mint” in 1861 with the imprint of the United States of America.
	www.austincoins.com /dahlonega_mint.htm (866 words)

	The United State Mints
		The Nevada Mint Bill was passed by both the House and the Senate on March 3, 1863, but didn't stipulate a location for the new mint.
		Mintages during these early years of the Carson City Mint were lower than anticipated, because many mine owners still preferred to use the San Francisco Mint or to keep their output in ingot form.
		When the Carson City Mint was inventorying what was left after the mint was shut down, they found a group of Morgan dollar reverse dies that had the "CC" mintmark.
	www.nvo.com /ecnewletter/theunitedstatemints (1045 words)

	About The United States Mint
		Check out our interactive timeline for information about all the facilities that the Mint has operated over the years and what was happening at that time.
		As the country grew and the demand for coins increased, it became necessary to expand Mint facilities.
		In 1870, the Carson City, NV Mint opened, and in 1904 the Denver, CO Assay Office became a mint facility.
	www.usmint.gov /about_the_mint/index.cfm?action=mint_facilities (518 words)

	U.S. Branch Mints - United States Mints
		As the Mint Report is not easily accessible to many collectors, we have digested all statistical information upon these topics of date and amount of coinage that could be of any value to them, and note in these pages the coins that are either scarce or rare from restricted number.
		The Mints already mentioned, in the order of their organization after the Philadelphia Mint, were for many years strictly "Branch Mints" of the parent institution.
		We have written this treatise upon Branch Mint coinage entirely from personal investigation upon the lines given in the preface, and have thus far seen or heard of nothing but fragmentary references to the subject in a printed shape, which have in no way added to information already acquired.
	www.chicagocoinclub.org /lib/us/usbm/usm.html (1287 words)

	Southern Gold Society
		The plans for the Charlotte Mint were drawn by William Strickland, a noted architect of the day, and were also used for the construction of the Dahlonega Mint.
		The Philadelphia Mint sent Franklin Peale to inspect the mints at Charlotte and Dahlonega, with Peale arriving in Charlotte in late September 1837.
		Unlike the Dahlonega Mint, the Charlotte Mint never struck a three dollar gold piece, although a pair of $3 dies was sent to the facility in 1854.
	www.southerngoldsociety.org /charlotte.html (1290 words)

	Mints and Minting - Page 3
		The Philadelphia Mint is the "mother mint" and is where dies for all branch mints are made.
		New Orleans Mint (1838-1909): In 1838, due to increasing commerce on the Mississippi River and in the Gulf of Mexico, a mint was opened at the foremost trading center in the area, New Orleans, Louisiana.
		In 1861 the mint was seized by the State of Louisiana and was later operated for a short time under the auspices of the Confederate States of America.
	www.pcgs.com /coinguidetext_static/mints2.chtml (253 words)

	Denver Mint - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Denver Mint is a branch of the United States Mint established in 1862 that is today operational and produces coins for circulation, as well as mint sets and commemorative coins.
		Coins produced at the Denver Mint bear a D mint mark (not to be confused with the mark of the Dahlonega Mint).
		In addition, before the new machinery to be used at the Mint was installed for use, it was first sent to the St.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Denver_Mint (559 words)

	U.S. Treasury - Fact Sheet on the History of the Denver Mint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		One reason given by the Director of the Mint for the lack of coinage at Denver was, "...
		February 20, 1895, there was new hope for branch mint status when Congress provided for the establishment of a mint at Denver for gold and silver coin production.
		In addition, before the new machinery to be used at the Mint was installed for use, it was first sent to the St. Louis Exposition of 1904 for display.
	www.ustreas.gov /education/fact-sheets/currency/denver-mint.shtml (420 words)

	Southern Gold Society
		On March 3, 1835, the US Congress established three branch mints: two in the gold rush areas of Charlotte, North Carolina and Dahlonega, Georgia to mint gold coins and one in New Orleans, Louisiana to mint gold and silver coins.
		In anticipation of the mint's beginning operations, the first silver was deposited on March 8th, the first gold deposit was made on April 10th, and the first two pairs of dies (for dimes) were shipped from Philadelphia on April 9th.
		In March, the mint, under the same staff, coined 1,240,000 half dollars and 9,750 double eagles for the State of Louisiana; and, in April, the mint coined 962,633 half dollars and 2,991 double eagles for the Confederacy.
	www.southerngoldsociety.org /neworleans.html (1413 words)

	Shoots: How do Mint Plants Branch to Form New Stems?
		On a tree, the apical stem would be the trunk, while the lateral stems would be the branches that you climb up on.
		Branching and growth of lateral stems is a process that is regulated.
		Mint plants are not the only plants that regulate stem growth this way.
	www.sciencebuddies.org /mentoring/project_ideas/PlantBio_p018.shtml (952 words)

	Royal Australian Mint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Royal Australian Mint was opened by the Duke of Edinburgh in 1965 with the main original aim of producing the new decimal coinage of Australia which was introduced in 1966.
		It states that it was the first mint in Australia which was not a branch mint of the Royal Mint in London.
		This refers to the fact that the Perth Mint which opened in 1899 was originally a branch of the Royal Mint.
	www.mintsoftheworld.com /royalaustralianmint.html (133 words)

	Dahlonega Gold History
		The mint was to be a two-story, stucco-covered brick structure, having a basement constructed of "hammer-dressed" stone.
		The Dahlonega Mint was supplied with state-of-the-art coining equipment, including two of the "small version" steam-driven, toggle joint presses, a design that was first used to strike coins at the Philadelphia Mint in 1836.
		The Dahlonega Mint positions were very political, with changes often being made upon a shift in a political party's power in Washington, a situation that caused much internal conflict among the mint personnel.
	www.dahlonegagold.com /dghist.htm (1584 words)

	San Francisco Mint Fire
		All morning the rumor had spread that an armed gang was massing to storm the San Francisco United States Branch Mint at the corner of Fifth and Mission Streets and rob it of over two hundred million dollars in U.S. coins and gold and silver bullion stored in its vaults.
		The Mint built in 1874 was a commanding structure of granite and sandstone blocks, in the heart of the city of San Francisco.
		By this time the mint was completely surrounded by the flames, which extended for blocks on either side.
	www.geocities.com /dewardt/flcc/sanfrancisco.html (578 words)

	The Charlotte Branch Mint
		Coins were minted at the facility uninterrupted until North Carolina seceded from the Union on May 21, 1861 and the Confederacy took control of the Mint.
		Like the Dahlonega Mint Classic Head Quarter Eagles, the Charlotte Mint Classic Head Quarter Eagles are distinctive in that the "C" mintmark appears on the obverse of the coin, underneath the date.
		As with the Quarter Eagle, the Charlotte Mint produced two designs of Half Eagles during the course of its operations: the Classic Head and Liberty motifs.
	www.blanchardonline.com /AmericanRarities/archive-08/char.html (1185 words)

	Collecting Coins
		- The branch Mint located in Dahlonega, Georgia that struck gold coins from 1838 until 1861 when it was seized by the Confederacy.
		The 1861-D gold dollars were struck after the Mint was seized, the mintage figure for this rare issue is not listed in Mint records and has been estimated at 1000 to 1,500 examples.
		Nearly half a million examples dated 1933 were struck by the U.S. Mint, but virtually all were melted when private gold ownership was outlawed that year.
	groups.msn.com /CollectingCoins/d.msnw (1429 words)

	Royal Mint, Sydney Branch
		The Legislative Council of New South Wales first petitioned in 1851 for a mint to be established in the colony, and in 1853 this was accomplished by an Order in Council providing for a branch of the Royal Mint to be set up in Sydney.
		The Sydney Mint was first used for the issue of Imperial bronze coin in 1868 and for Imperial silver coin in 1879.
		These are manuscript copies of letters exchanged between the Governor of New South Wales, the Deputy Master of the Mint and the Secretary of State in 1866-67 regarding the position of the Sydney Mint relative to the Colonial Government and Legislature.
	www.records.nsw.gov.au /cguide/pr/rmint.htm (957 words)

	Mints and Mintmarks on Gold Sovereigns
		Since 1871, British sovereigns were struck at branch mints, in addition to the Royal Mint in London.
		The first branch mint to strike sovereigns was Sydney in Australia.
		Our photographs show a close-up of the date and mintmark for all seven of the branch mints operating during the twentieth century.
	www.goldsovereigns.co.uk /mintsandmintmarks.html (285 words)

	minterrornews.com
		The Manila Mint (Mint Mark ‘M’) was opened in July 1920 as a branch Mint of the United States and struck coins for the Philippines while the Islands were under administration of the United States before World War II.
		Some of the clients of the U.S. Mint requested to be furnished with planchets to be utilized at their native mints in the coining process, as was the case with Argentina in 1919 and 1920.
		Furthermore, the Director of the Mint stated that the U.S. Treasury Department considered the discs to be gold bullion and not coinage, and as such, were not authorized to be imported or held in the United States under the 1934 Gold Reserve Act.
	minterrornews.com /news-5-13-03-foreigners_in_the_mint.html (6142 words)

	United States Mint - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Like the Charlotte and Dahlonega branches, the Carson City Mint ("CC" mint mark) was opened to take advantage of local precious metal deposits, in this case, a large vein of silver, though gold coins were also produced there (no base metal coins were).
		The Mint currently operates its main facility at Philadelphia along with three branch mints.
		The West Point branch is the newest branch mint.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Mint (1591 words)

	1871 Sydney Mint Shield Gold Sovereign
		These are the first Imperial sovereigns to be struck at a branch mint outside of Britain.
		Legislation for the establishment of a branch of the London Royal Mint in Sydney was announced in August 1853 - much to the disappointment of the Legislative Councils of Victoria and South Australia who also applied for the honor of having Australia's third - but first official - mint.
		It allowed the branch mints to decide which, and how much of the two designs to strike.
	www.users.bigpond.com /cruzi/Coins/sovs/1871s.htm (426 words)

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