Coinage Department of First United States Mint

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Coinage Department of First United States Mint

Item Info

Item No: pdcc00696
Title: Coinage Department of First United States Mint
Historic Street Address: 7th & Arch Streets
Media Type: Scrapbooks
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:

http://www.usmint.gov/historianscorner/?action=production


Notes:

Halftone reproduction of a photograph showing the building in which the first coins were struck. Sign on the door reads  "Brass Foundry". A carpenter's shop occupies the upper floors on the right hand side of the building.


Geocode Latitude: Geocode Longitude:-75.151545
Geocode Latitude:39.952961

Call Number: A917.481 P536 v.8
Creator Name: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897 - Photographer
Castner, Samuel, Jr., 1843-1929 - Compiler