Todays edition of....Guess The Mint!

MGLICKER · July 25, 2014 4:51AM

All images are from the same Mint.

AMRC · July 25, 2014 4:54AM

By the use of the building material and the date, I would say Carson City

Boosibri · July 25, 2014 4:56AM

New Orleans. Book was published by E.S. Gardner.

Edited: book titled : How Money is Coined: A Visit to the United State Mint,

epcjimi1 · July 25, 2014 4:58AM

Philadelpia, PA?

MGLICKER · July 25, 2014 5:00AM

Wish that I could still get some of those old light bulbs.

Crazy4Coins · July 25, 2014 5:11AM

Based on the way the women are dressed......I'd say deep south.

So, New Orleans.

PRECIOUSMENTAL · July 25, 2014 5:31AM

Philadelphia Mint.

TommyType · July 25, 2014 5:34AM

<< <i>New Orleans. Book was published by E.S. Gardner.

Edited: book titled : How Money is Coined: A Visit to the United State Mint, >>

I'm almost sure I've seen those photos used more recently, too. Maybe an ANA class book, or some other minting or historical book. They look very familiar.

LoveMyLiberty · July 25, 2014 6:00AM

Boosibri hit it. The E.S. Gardner book is in the Library of Congress and reprints were made by Lafayette, LA:
University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2009.

Roger W. Burdette uses these images and descriptions in his book, From Mine to Mint, 2013 and vividly
describes the activities occuring in the images at the New Orleans Mint.

MGLICKER · July 25, 2014 6:17AM

Good work fellas. New Orleans is correct.

I really like the Dollar tabulation in the 2nd photo.

TommyType · July 25, 2014 6:21AM

<< <i>Good work fellas. New Orleans is correct.

I really like the Dollar tabulation in the 2nd photo. >>

Makes you wonder if maybe.....just MAYBE....that coin in your collection is somewhere on that table. Boggles the mind.

(Yeah...I know. Highly unlikely. But it was also highly unlikely that I would randomly run into my brother-in-law at Dallas airport while changing planes. Yet....)

LochNESS · July 25, 2014 6:25AM

I remember randomly running into someone I knew at the Atlanta airport once. Unfortunately I can't remember who it was. Or when exactly. But I got the "Where"

guitarwes · July 25, 2014 6:26AM

Just think of the purdy 97-0 Barber Halves that those ladies got to fondle hot off the press.......

MGLICKER · July 25, 2014 6:31AM

maybe.....just MAYBE....that coin in your collection is somewhere on that table. Boggles the mind. >>

Looks like 2000 coins are stacked on the table. From the mintage of 4,004,000 your chance would be one in 2000, if you have a single 1897-O.

Being in one of the wooden tray would be much more likely. Maybe 1 in 100.

LochNESS · July 25, 2014 6:47AM

No wonder high MS grades are scarce. Imagine how many bag marks those coins must have gotten from being hand stacked, mixed into that giant scoop, poured onto the metal scale, and then who knows what. Not to mention the wooden boxes. Still, they were probably all a 65 from BU cartwheel luster.

AUandAG · July 25, 2014 7:00AM

That wainscoting is still there today....Carson City.

bob

Oooops, wrong again.....lol

LoveMyLiberty · July 25, 2014 7:14AM

<< <i>maybe.....just MAYBE....that coin in your collection is somewhere on that table. Boggles the mind. >>

Looks like 2000 coins are stacked on the table. From the mintage of 4,004,000 your chance would be one in 2000, if you have a single 1897-O.

Being in one of the wooden tray would be much more likely. Maybe 1 in 100. >>

The weighed and counted dollar coins were readied for shipment from the Mint. Each wooden box contained 1,000 coins
to be bagged & placed in a vault, or shipped to a customer.

The truck in the foreground contains boxes of mixed "condemned" coins. These were also weighed so that bullion could be
tracked back to the melting and refining department where they go through the process again.

epcjimi1 · July 25, 2014 7:48AM

Looks to me like the woman at the press in pic #3 is reaching for or pumping an oiling / lubricating mechanism on the press.

Oh yeah, hell of a set of scales in pic # 2.

telephoto1 · July 25, 2014 7:53AM

Given the time frame, it is interesting to note how many women are working there. Susan B. would be proud.

LoveMyLiberty · July 25, 2014 8:06AM

<< <i>Looks to me like the woman at the press in pic #3 is reaching for or pumping an oiling / lubricating mechanism on the press.

Oh yeah, hell of a set of scales in pic # 2. >>

No oil, no lubricant,,,it's not part of her duties.

She is continually filling a feeder tube with planchets from the wooden box
to her left, that will be fed into the coin press to be struck.

Todays edition of....Guess The Mint!

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