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	Encyclopedia: New Orleans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As of the 2000 census, the population of New Orleans is 484,674.
		The New Orleans mint, whose coins can be identified by the "O" mintmark found primarily on the reverse of its coinage, earned a reputation for producing coins of a mediocre quality; their luster is usually not as brilliant as those of other mints, and center areas tend to be flattened and not sharply struck.
		New Orleans is well known for its creole culture and the persistence of Voodoo by a few of its residents, as well as for its music, food, architecture and good times.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/New-Orleans (3711 words)

	New Orleans Mint - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Operations at the New Orleans Mint began on March 8, 1838, with the deposit of the first Mexican gold bullion, and the first coins, 30 dimes, were struck on May 7.
		Secession and the rebel seizure of the Mint
		The New Orleans Mint, whose coins can be identified by the "O" mint mark found primarily on the reverse of its coinage, earned a reputation for producing coins of a mediocre quality; their luster is usually not as brilliant as those of other mints, and center areas tend to be flattened and not sharply struck.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Orleans_Mint (3380 words)

	New Orleans, Louisiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		New Orleans was founded by the French in 1718 and has played an important role in the history of the United States.
		New Orleans is well known for its Creole culture and the persistence of Voodoo practice by a few of its residents, as well as for its music, food, architecture, and spirit of celebration.
		The New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal is the central rail depot, and it is served by three trains: the Crescent to New York City, the City of New Orleans to Chicago, Illinois, and the Sunset Limited from Orlando to Los Angeles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Orleans (6945 words)

	MSN Encarta - New Orleans
		New Orleans, one of North America's most distinctive and culturally diverse cities, located in southeastern Louisiana on the Mississippi River, about 180 km (about 110 mi) from the Gulf of Mexico.
		New Orleans, named for Philippe II, Duc d'Orléans, regent of France under Louis XV, has been a leading commercial center since its founding and has one of the most active ports in the United States.
		The original French settlement of New Orleans was built on the east bank of the Mississippi, where sediment from the river had created areas of elevated land.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761554180/New_Orleans.html (1132 words)

	GovMint.com - The New Orleans Mint
		New Orleans is famous for many things; its fine restaurants, Dixieland jazz, educational institutions, the French Quarter, and the city’s annual Mardi Gras celebration.
		Authorized in 1835, the New Orleans Mint struck both silver and gold coins and proved to be the most durable and dependable mint in the South both before and after the Civil War.
		Of the three southern mints, New Orleans was considered to be the most important because its geographic location at the mouth of the Mississippi River, which made it the center for trading throughout the Midwest.
	www.govmint.com /knowledgebase/neworleansmint.aspx (878 words)

	Louisiana State Museum - Old US Mint
		Minting operations ceased in 1909 and, for the next 57 years, the Mint served a variety of official purposes.
		A new photography gallery, portraying New Orleans' "new generation" of performers, emphasizes the many ways that jazz is handed down, generation to generation and its evolution over the decades.
		The New Orleans Branch of the U.S. Mint
	lsm.crt.state.la.us /mintex.htm (369 words)

	Louisiana expands displays at New Orleans Mint museum - 7/29/02
		Assay balance, Becker and Sons, New York; 19-inch beam balance in wood and glass case, used to weigh bullion and coinage materials in the U.S. Mint Assay Department; 19 by 12 by19 inches; 10 pounds.
		Some Mint officers, including Riddell and Joseph M. Kennedy (second superintendent, 1839 to 1850), lived right on the premises for years, he noted, and space will be given to their day-to-day doings.
		Mint Director Henrietta Holsman Fore and her staff "have been a great help, especially with loans of documents, including a very detailed ledger book covering all manner of events and operational statistics at the New Orleans Mint," he said.
	www.coinworld.com /ebay/News/072902/News-2.asp (1225 words)

	Minting in the Old South on view - 12/09/02
		Riddell, a prominent citizen in New Orleans, was melter and refiner at the Mint from 1839 to 1848.
		Riddell was a prominent scientist and citizen of New Orleans.
		During its operation as a minting facility, the New Orleans Mint struck silver and gold coinage in many denominations, ranging from the silver 3-cent coin (one year only, 1851) to the gold $20 double eagle (multiple years).
	www.coinworld.com /ebay/News/121602/News-5.asp (642 words)

	New Orleans Mint Coins: An Old US Mint, Southern Coins, and New Orleans History.
		The Philadelphia Mint was producing coins at full capacity, but was still not capable of supplying the coinage needed for westward expansion, due in large part to the great distance separating the "City of Brotherly Love" from the farthest reaches of the American South and West.
		President Andrew Jackson, the hero of the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812, persuaded Congress that establishing a branch mint in New Orleans would increase coinage circulation in the more remote regions of the nation and stimulate economic activity and growth.
		This incident at the Mint was one of the most notorious events of the Civil War, prompting CSA President Jefferson Davis to proclaim Butler a "felon" and to issue the extraordinary decree that if the general was ever taken captive, he was to be executed immediately.
	www.us-coin-values-advisor.com /new-orleans-mint-coins.html (3136 words)

	The New Orleans Branch Mint
		The New Orleans Mint anchors scenic Esplanade Avenue to the Mississippi River at the edge of the world-famous French Quarter.
		Unlike the Charlotte and Dahlonega Branch Mints which were also taken over by the Confederacy, the New Orleans Mint still had bullion available to continue minting coinage after the Civil War began and managed to produce $1,356,136 of coinage during its brief tenure under the Confederacy.
		The New Orleans Branch Mint was the only Southern Branch Mint to mint each of the six denominations of U.S. gold coinage: $1, $2.50, $3, $5, $10, and $20.
	www.blanchardonline.com /AmericanRarities/archive-08/newor.html (1922 words)

	New Orleans: The Federal Presence - U.S. Mint Buildings Across the Nation
		Celebrated Philadelphia architect William Strickland designed the three early branch mints at New Orleans, Charlotte, and Dahlonega, all of which were authorized by an act of Congress on March 3, 1835.
		New Orleans was the largest of the three early mints.
		Furthermore, as one scholar notes, “The Southern mints were the result of [President Andrew] Jackson’s long war with the Bank of America and paper money.”; Jackson had considerable personal ties to New Orleans, as well.
	www.ustreas.gov /offices/management/curator/exhibitions/mintbldgs/new-orleans.shtml (569 words)

	Morgan Silver Dollars - New Orleans Mint
		When the New Orleans branch of the U.S. Mint opened in 1838, Louisiana was on the edge of the western frontier.
		New Orleans Mint struck only a fraction of the total number of Silver Dollars from the years 1879 through 1904.
		The New Orleans Mint coins are distinguished by the "O" mint mark which appear on the reverse just above the word One Dollar.
	accentcoins.com /neworleans.html (288 words)

	Money - Then And Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The New Orleans mint was operated as a branch mint under the Philadelphia mint and struck gold and silver coins.
		The assay office continued on in the old mint building until 1931 when it was moved into the custom house to take advantage of their new vault.
		The Denver mint was organized in 1906 shortly before the New Orleans mint was closed for good which ending all minting operations in the South.
	starsandbars.com /AndyJackson.htm (1275 words)

	GovMint.com - 1884, 1898, 1901 0-Mint Morgan Silver Dollars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the early 1800s, New Orleans was vital to the U.S. economy due to heavy commerce on the Mississippi and throughout the Gulf of Mexico.
		Along with the Charlotte and Dahlonega branch mints, the New Orleans Mint was one of three branch mints opened in the South prior to the Civil War.
		The New Orleans Mint opened in 1838 and struck coins until the start of the Civil War, when the Confederate army seized the building for military use.
	www.govmint.com /countrylistings/northamerica/usa/dixielandmorgan.aspx (261 words)

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		Authorities selected New Orleans for several good reasons: it was the fifth largest city in the nation and the largest in the South and West; it was one of the United States' most active ports, attracting goods and people
		The Mint at New Orleans was the only one of three mint branches in the South to be reopened.
		The coining of currency ceased permanently at the New Orleans Mint in 1909, after the federal government determined that facilities at the San Francisco and Denver Mints were adequate to handle the demand.
	www.ecoinage.com /mintneworleans.html (834 words)

	New Orleans Mint Special Release
		To distinguish coins struck at the “mother mint” in Philadelphia from New Orleans Mint issues, every coin carried a distinctive “O” mint mark shown at left.
		In the midst of the Civil War, the Southern Confederates took over the mint in New Orleans and no coins were minted from 1862 until 1879.
		However, New Orleans gold coins were almost immediately released to banks, merchants, and the general public and were worn in circulation.
	www.austincoins.com /new_orleans.htm (1033 words)

	collecting stamps and coins - New Orleans Mint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Minting began in 1838, one year before the building was finished.
		Apparently Strickland’s structural design was better suited to the firm ground of Philadelphia than to the soft New Orleans soil, and he never even went to New Orleans before or during construction.
		Mint building exhibits few of the problems that plagued it during its tumultuous decades of service.
	www.downtownstamps.bc.ca /newsletters/news73.html (553 words)

	The New Orleans Mint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		When the New Orleans mint was opened on May 8, 1838, the South was the dominant section of the nation.
		When the southern states formed their Confederacy, the New Orleans mint was the center of a storm.
		By 1910, with the shift in the national economy to the north and west, the New Orleans mint was no longer needed.
	www.coin-newbies.com /articles/orleans.html (246 words)

	Articles - New Orleans Mint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Its machinery was evidently damaged during the war, but because of its importance, unlike the mints at Charlotte and Dahlonega, in 1877 U. Mint agent James R. Snowden asked superindendent of the office, Dr. M.
		The process of adjusting, however, required the utmost attention to the scales'; balance, and the slightest draft could upset it.
		By the early twentieth century, the U. Treasury had mints operating in New Orleans, Denver, San Francisco, and the main center in Philadelphia, which more than met the demand for minted money.
	www.epsona.com /articles/New_Orleans_Mint (2754 words)

	The United States Mint h.i.p. pocket change(TM) Web site. It's History in Your Pocket! Making Cents.
		During January, the first month of the new year, the first new quarter of the new year will be released.
		The New Orleans Mint used an "O" mint mark and struck coins during two periods: 1838 to 1861 and, after the Civil War, 1879 to 1909.
		New exhibits feature mint items actually used in New Orleans and other branches in those early days-scales, calculators, automatic weighing machines...and a machine called a "rotary ingot machine" that John Leonard Riddell invented while he was a melter and refiner at the Mint.
	www.usmint.gov /Kids/index.cfm?fileContents=coinnews/makingCents/2003_winter.cfm (653 words)

	New Orleans Deligh & Gregg Stafford CD
		In New Orleans there are not many regular bands with a fixed personnel, the bands at Preservation Hall being the exceptions to that rule.
		Although we all know that New Orleans and in fact all traditional jazz, is fl in origin, we tend to forget that the only regular fl faces in the post-war revival bands tended to be the original stalwarts that started the whole thing off years before.
		New Orleans Delight, the six-piece Danish/Swedish jazz band that uses guest trumpet players, for a European tour brought over Gregg Stafford from New Orleans to occupy the trumpet chair and Brian Towers (ex-U.K.) from Canada to fill the temporarily vacant trombone spot.
	www.new-orleans-delight.dk /cd/cd%20Gregg.html (5079 words)

	New Orleans and Louisiana Music Links - www.satchmo.com
		New Orleans Jazz National Historic Park and New Orleans Jazz Commission were established by the U.S. Congress in 1994 to celebrate the origins and evolution of America's most widely recognized indigenous musical art form; check both sites for info on free local jazz performances, jazz walking tours, and more.
		New Orleans Jazz Centennial Celebration (NOJCC) preserves, promotes and perpetuates jazz as an original American art form, along with other related roots music, through educational outreach.
		New Orleans Jazz Club is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of traditional New Orleans style jazz.
	www.satchmo.com /nolavl/links.html (2119 words)

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