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• BillJones Posts: 34,710 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 26, 2013 7:10AM

  It closed in 1861 and burned down in 1878, but the foundation of the Dahlonega mint is the closest to me.
  
  

  Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?

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• messydesk Posts: 20,260 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 26, 2013 7:16AM

  Well, using Google maps suggested routes, Dahlonega comes up closest, with Charlotte close behind, and just ahead of Philadelphia, Ottawa, and Winnipeg, all of which are close to the same distance from here. I don't have a Dahlonega coin, but RYK does, so I'll post a picture of one of his.
  

  John
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• AUandAG Posts: 24,909 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 26, 2013 7:23AM

  Beautiful first year Morgan from Carson City....love the color, one of my favorites.
  
  bob
  
  

  Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
  

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• coinsarefun Posts: 21,755 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 26, 2013 7:28AM

  
  
  
  
  

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  Gallery Mint Museum, Ron Landis& Joe Rust, The beginnings of the Golden Dollar
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  October 26, 2013 7:32AM

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• morgansforever Posts: 8,466 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 26, 2013 7:51AM

  8TF Fatty style
  
  
  
  

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• 78saen Posts: 988 ✭✭✭✭

  October 26, 2013 8:04AM

  
  
  

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• AuroraBorealis Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 26, 2013 8:18AM

  Very nice quarter SkyMan! One of my S mints...
  
  AB
  
  "Christmas Tree"
  

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• 123cents Posts: 7,178 ✭✭✭

  October 26, 2013 8:26AM

  
  

  

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• Boosibri Posts: 12,383 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 26, 2013 8:45AM

  Funny, Philadelphia, Dahlonega and Charlotte are all about 700 miles from me. Philadelphia wins by 30 miles.
  
  

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• BryceM Posts: 11,850 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 26, 2013 2:10PM

  Huh. I always assumed Denver was closer to me than Carson City. Turns out CC is a few miles closer. Too bad I don't have a single coin from there.

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• Tiny Posts: 2,598

  October 26, 2013 2:34PM

  
  

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• AUandAG Posts: 24,909 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 26, 2013 2:35PM

  A few miles, Bryce??? How about more than 300 miles closer!
  
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  bob

  Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
  

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• MilkmanDan Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 26, 2013 2:51PM

  Where I live, I'm not far from Nevada but I had to choose S over CC.
  
  

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• BryceM Posts: 11,850 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 26, 2013 3:11PM

  For me, the difference is 168 miles, with Carson City being closer.

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• lordmarcovan Posts: 43,685 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 26, 2013 5:01PM

  Since I don't have one from that particular mint, I'll "borrow" messydesk's beauty.
  
  

  
  
  

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• ambro51 Posts: 13,940 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 26, 2013 9:52PM

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• Crackout Posts: 1,375 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 27, 2013 12:59AM

  

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• LeeBone Posts: 4,563 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 27, 2013 2:35AM

  One of my favorites...
  

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• SaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 27, 2013 2:57AM

  Nearest to where I grew up:
  
  
  
  Appropriate since many of my ancestors were gold miners in that region until a mining disaster in 1922.

  Tir nam beann, nan gleann, s'nan gaisgeach ~ Saorstat Albanaich a nis!

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• Staircoins Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭

  October 27, 2013 3:13AM

  I don't have anything from the mint nearest me, so this borrowed pic will have to do.
  
  

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• 19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭

  October 27, 2013 4:01AM

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  I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.
  
  
  
  The name is LEE!

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• GeorgeKellogg Posts: 1,251 ✭✭

  October 27, 2013 5:16AM

  The Dahlonega Mint is the closest mint to me. This 1853-D quarter eagle was minted 160 years ago and was auctioned in Stack's George Walton Duplicates sale in June 1963 (50 years ago). Walton is best known today for owning the "missing" 1913 Liberty Head nickel (100 years old this year). The images are courtesy of BluCC Photos.
  
  

  "Clamorous for Coin"

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• CharlotteDude Posts: 3,151 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 27, 2013 8:08AM

  Philadelphia has been the closest to me since I moved to Maryland 20 years ago...
  
  
  
  But my home state of North Carolina & Charlotte remain much closer to the heart...
  
  
  
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• crazyhounddog Posts: 14,043 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 27, 2013 9:01AM

  
  
  
  

  The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.

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• WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,258 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 27, 2013 9:50AM

  
  
  Very few US coins made that year.
  
  

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• morgansforever Posts: 8,466 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 27, 2013 10:06AM

  Great images everyone.
  
  
  

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• JJSingleton Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 27, 2013 10:17AM

  As I sit here in my mountain home I am about 9 miles as the crow flies from the location of the Dahlonega Mint. And the coin below sits in a safe deposit box just a couple of hundred yards from where it was minted in 1839.
  
  Image by Todd at BlueCC Photos
  

  Joseph J. Singleton - First Superintendent of the U.S. Branch Mint in Dahlonega Georgia
  
  Findley Ridge Collection
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• robec Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 27, 2013 11:42AM

  

  - Bob -
  
  MPL's - Lincolns of Color
  Central Valley Roosevelts

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• Mesquite Posts: 4,075 ✭✭✭

  October 27, 2013 11:24PM

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  There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
  –John Adams, 1826

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