1828 display newspaper with US MINT Numismatics EARLY COINS Gold SILVER Copper

Description

1828 display newspaper with front-page detailed article on production from the
U.S. MINT
! A wonderful Numismatics Collectible, including mention of Gold, SILVER and Copper output
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inv # 3F-204
SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
Independent Chronicle and Boston Patriot
(MA) dated January 30, 1828 with fantastic front-page displayable numismatics report from the US Mint !!
This newspaper contains National and International news as well as LOCAL ads and news from
The Mint was created by
Congress
with the
Coinage Act of 1792
, and originally placed within the
Department of State
. Per the terms of the Coinage Act, the first Mint building was in
Philadelphia
, then the capital of the United States; it was the first building of the Republic raised under the
Constitution
. Today, the Mint's headquarters (a non-coin-producing facility) are in
Washington D.C.
. It operates mint facilities in
Philadelphia
,
Denver
,
San Francisco
, and
West Point, New York
and a
bullion depository
at
Fort Knox, Kentucky
. Official Mints (Branches) were once also located in
Carson City, Nevada
,
Charlotte, North Carolina
,
Dahlonega, Georgia
,
New Orleans, Louisiana
,
Washington, D.C.
; and even in
Manila, in the Philippines
.
Originally part of the
State Department
, the Mint was made an independent agency in 1799. It converted
precious metals
into standard coin for anyone's account with no
seigniorage
charge beyond the
refining
costs. Under the
Coinage Act of 1873
, the Mint became part of the
Department of the Treasury
. It was placed under the auspices of the
Treasurer of the United States
in 1981.
Legal tender
coins of today are minted solely for the Treasury's account.
The first
Director of the United States Mint
was renowned scientist
David Rittenhouse
from 1792 to 1795. The position was held most recently by
Edmund C. Moy
until his resignation effective January 9, 2011. (The position is currently vacant, the Mint being run by the Principal Deputy Director, Rhett Jeppson, who was appointed in January 2015).
Henry Voigt
was the first Superintendent and Chief Coiner, and is credited with some of the first U.S. coin designs. Another important position at the Mint is that of
Chief Engraver
, which has been held by such men as
Frank Gasparro
,
William Barber
,
Charles E. Barber
,
James B. Longacre
, and
Christian Gobrecht
.
The Mint has operated several
branch facilities
throughout the United States since the
Philadelphia Mint
opened in 1792, in a building known as "Ye Olde Mint". With the opening of branch mints came the need for
mint marks
, an identifying feature on the coin to show its facility of origin. The first of these branch mints were the
Charlotte
,
North Carolina
(1838–1861),
Dahlonega
,
Georgia
(1838–1861), and
New Orleans
,
Louisiana
(1838–1909) branches. Both the
Charlotte
(C mint mark) and
Dahlonega
(D mint mark) Mints were opened to facilitate the conversion of local
gold
deposits into coinage, and minted only gold coins. The
Civil War
closed both these facilities permanently. The
New Orleans Mint
(O mint mark) closed at the beginning of the Civil War (1861) and did not re-open until the end of
Reconstruction
in 1879. During its two stints as a minting facility, it produced both gold and silver coinage in eleven different denominations, though only ten denominations were ever minted there at one time (in 1851 silver
three-cent pieces
,
half dimes
,
dimes
,
quarters
,
half dollars
, and gold
dollars
,
Quarter Eagles
,
half eagles
,
eagles
, and
double eagles
).
A new branch facility was opened in
Carson City, Nevada
, in 1870; it operated until 1893, with a three-year hiatus from 1886 to 1888. 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.
In 1911 the Mint had a female acting director,
Margaret Kelly
, at that point the highest paid woman on the government's payroll. She stated that women were paid equally within the bureau.
A branch of the U.S. mint (
Manila Mint
) was established in 1920 in
Manila
in the
Philippines
, which was then a U.S. colony. To date, the Manila Mint is the only U.S. mint established outside the continental U.S. and was responsible for producing coins for the colony (one, five, ten, twenty and fifty
centavo
denominations). This branch was in production from 1920 to 1922, and then again from 1925 through 1941. Coins struck by this mint bear either the M mintmark (for Manila) or none at all, similar to the Philadelphia mint at the time.
A
branch mint
in
The Dalles
,
Oregon
, was commissioned in 1864. Construction was halted in 1870, and the facility never produced any coins, although the building still stands.
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