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A New Mint for Mexico
shirohniichan
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Here's a blurb I found in the local paper I was reading today:
A Mint for Mexico.— The schooner Ewing, Capt. Brown (who, by the way, is not her owner, as stated yesterday,) which sails to-day, for Mazatlan, has, as a part of her cargo, die machinery and full appliances for a mint in Northern Mexico, under the Pesquiera Government. The machinery was made In this city, at Donahue's foundry, and is calculated tor a large establishment.
Daily Alta California, Volume 12, Number 85, 26 March 1860
Let's see if anything comes from it.
A Mint for Mexico.— The schooner Ewing, Capt. Brown (who, by the way, is not her owner, as stated yesterday,) which sails to-day, for Mazatlan, has, as a part of her cargo, die machinery and full appliances for a mint in Northern Mexico, under the Pesquiera Government. The machinery was made In this city, at Donahue's foundry, and is calculated tor a large establishment.
Daily Alta California, Volume 12, Number 85, 26 March 1860
Let's see if anything comes from it.
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Donahue might be Peter Donahue and the foundry the Union Iron Works of San Francisco.
But I never heard of any minting machinery coming out of any San Francisco foundry.
I suspect the mint was either Alamos (started silver coinage in 1864, but coppers in the 1820s) or Hermosillo (started silver coinage in 1861, but coppers and a few rare silver coins in the 1830s). These mints were both in the Mexican state of Sonora (in the north of Mexico).
Thanks for posting this. Now I am curious about minting machinery from the Union Iron Works.