US Mint Looking for Tenant for First Floor of HQ Building

RWB · October 25, 2007 5:43AM

According to an article in Coin World, the US Mint is looking for a tenant to occupy the first floor of its headquarters building on 9th Street in Washington, DC.

Would this not be a superb place for a larger coin dealer to locate, possibly with sponsorship of a rotating display from the Smithsonian? Congress might have said “No” to the mint opening it’s own museum, but no one said anything about a private-public partnership.

I know the location well. It is just a block or so from the popular Spy Museum, around the corner from the Verizon Center, close to Chinatown, diagonally across the street from Smithsonian’s administrative HQ and just up the street from the spectacular, newly reopened American Art Museum (including their fine medal collecting) at Gallery Place Metro.

Security, is unlikely to be a problem.

Mark · October 25, 2007 5:45AM

Do you think this is the location the old leadership of the ANA had in mind for its museum?

RWB · October 25, 2007 5:48AM

Likely. Imagine the kind of tourist business one could do with a retail coin & coin supply/book shop IN mint HQ...!

mrearlygold · October 25, 2007 5:50AM

Would make a heck of a coin shop

RWB · October 25, 2007 5:53AM

Customer: "But is that a real $20 gold coin?"
Service Rep.: "Let's go upstairs and ask the guy who runs the mint!"

The building even has bas reliefs of coins on the facade!