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Photos or records of on-site exposition minting?

ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,288 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited March 18, 2018 4:01PM in U.S. Coin Forum

Back in the late 1800s (and early 1900s?) the US Mint and George Bache Soley would do on-site minting at expositions such as the 1876 Centennial International Exhibition and 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.

Are there any photos or contemporary text of the on-site minting exhibits and equipment?

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  • RogerBRogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Columbian Exposition photos are on-line in several sites when a photo of each exhibit is shown.

    The PPIE of 1915 has photos of the Treasury display including the press used to strike 30mm medals.

  • thisistheshowthisistheshow Posts: 9,386 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 24, 2019 10:47AM

    Thank you for the update. Very cool picture

  • NysotoNysoto Posts: 3,818 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 24, 2019 1:55PM

    @Zoins thanks for image. It would have been a substantial shipping effort, the tracks over Snoqualmie Pass were finishing in March of 1909, or they could have come up through Tacoma.

    Robert Scot: Engraving Liberty - biography of US Mint's first chief engraver
  • RogerBRogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The Treasury Department records, RG 56, have detailed project files for every exhibition in which Treasury or mint participated. No coins were struck at these events, but on-site production of medals was common. Most medals were priced at 50-cents.

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