The Chicago Mint or Windy City Mint

Zoins

Imagine if we had a Mint in Chicago?

Well, it almost happened, twice!

Anyone find the congressional bill(s)?

Here's some info:

Numismatic News said:
Did they try to get a mint at Chicago?

At least two concerted efforts were made to secure a mint for the Windy City. The first was made in 1896 but was unsuccessful. Representative Frank Annunzio introduced a Chicago Mint bill in 1972, but the remodeling of the San Francisco Mint scuttled the proposal.

Ref: https://www.numismaticnews.net/archive/did-they-try-to-get-a-mint-in-chicago

Here's another article from the New York TImes on January 30, 1875.

https://www.nytimes.com/1875/01/30/archives/a-branch-mint-in-chicago.html

Zoins

If Chicago had a Mint then we could have two reused mintmarks.

• C = Chicago
• C = Charlotte
• D = Denver
• D = Dahlonega

Zoins

Here's a good book by E. W. Blatchford (Eliphalet Wickes) (1826-1914)

Report of a committee of the Board of Trade, Chicago, on the question of the advantages of that city as a location for a branch mint, for the refining and coinage of silver and gold. November, 1875. (Chicago : Knight & Leonard, 1875)

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112060016026&view=1up&seq=1

It starts with the following:

Ref: https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Blatchford%2c%20E%2e%20W%2e%20%28Eliphalet%20Wickes%29%2c%201826%2d1914

ricko

@Zoins... The mint mark for Chicago could be WC... Windy City.... That would make it truly unique. Cheers, RickO