Treasury Letter to Walter Breen regarding 1933 $20
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$400 to first player. Ex: Ford Library. Transcript as follows:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
UNITED STATES MINT SERVICE
Philadelphia 30, Pa.
OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT (seal)
UNITED STATES MINT
June twentieth, 1957
My dear Mr. Breen:
Your letter of May thirty-first was received in our Mint on June
fourth, - and I am sorry that so much thime has had to elapse before
this acknowledgment. We are now in the midst of Annual Settlement
in the Mint, - so we know you will understand!
The subject of your letter is one about which our files do not reveal
any substantial amount of information. In fact, after contacting
everyone at this Mint who might possibly contribute to the details, the
only thing brought out is the following from the Coiner"s records:
GOLD EAGLES - struck Jan. thru March, 1933.................$3,125,000.
GOLD DOUBLE EAGLES - struck March thru April, 1933.............$8,910,000.
Since the foregoing is also shown in the Director of the Mint's Annual
Report, it is public information.
Presumably all of the pieces struck were destroyed by the Mint. However,
there were several bearing the date 1933 that were picked-up by the
Secret Service. How many - or where picked-up, we do not have that in-
formation!
The answers to questions two and three of your letter are those in-
volving security procedures inaugurated by the Treasury Department in
Washington, D. C. An approach by you to the Bureau of the Mint
offers the only possibility of securing those answers.
Cordially,
(signed in flowing ink)
(Mrs.) Rae V. Biester
Superintendent.
above on one page typed letter with neatly printed red ink ball pen notation far upper right, "U.S. Gold"
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
UNITED STATES MINT SERVICE
Philadelphia 30, Pa.
OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT (seal)
UNITED STATES MINT
June twentieth, 1957
My dear Mr. Breen:
Your letter of May thirty-first was received in our Mint on June
fourth, - and I am sorry that so much thime has had to elapse before
this acknowledgment. We are now in the midst of Annual Settlement
in the Mint, - so we know you will understand!
The subject of your letter is one about which our files do not reveal
any substantial amount of information. In fact, after contacting
everyone at this Mint who might possibly contribute to the details, the
only thing brought out is the following from the Coiner"s records:
GOLD EAGLES - struck Jan. thru March, 1933.................$3,125,000.
GOLD DOUBLE EAGLES - struck March thru April, 1933.............$8,910,000.
Since the foregoing is also shown in the Director of the Mint's Annual
Report, it is public information.
Presumably all of the pieces struck were destroyed by the Mint. However,
there were several bearing the date 1933 that were picked-up by the
Secret Service. How many - or where picked-up, we do not have that in-
formation!
The answers to questions two and three of your letter are those in-
volving security procedures inaugurated by the Treasury Department in
Washington, D. C. An approach by you to the Bureau of the Mint
offers the only possibility of securing those answers.
Cordially,
(signed in flowing ink)
(Mrs.) Rae V. Biester
Superintendent.
above on one page typed letter with neatly printed red ink ball pen notation far upper right, "U.S. Gold"
Andy Lustig
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
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