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Detailed information about the coin Token, New Orleans Mint (New Orleans, Louisiana), United States, with pictures and collection and swap management: mintage, descriptions, metal, weight, size, value and other numismatic data
29 Αυγ 2022 · The New Orleans Mint produced 472 million silver and gold coins with a face value of $307 million. In part two of this three-part series on the New Orleans Mint, I will expand on the history from the late 1840s up until the early Civil War.
The New Orleans Mint (French: Monnaie de La Nouvelle-Orléans) operated in New Orleans, Louisiana, as a branch mint of the United States Mint from 1838 to 1861 and from 1879 to 1909.
13 Αυγ 2020 · While the “O” mint was one of three branch mints to open in 1838 – all three the first U.S. Mint facilities outside of Philadelphia – the New Orleans Mint went onto prove the most prolific and enduring of the trio. The locations of these branch mints were highly strategic.
Of the 3 new mints that began operations in 1838, New Orleans produced by far the most coinage. It also made both silver coins and gold coins, whereas the Charlotte and Dahlonega mints struck only gold coins. Here’s a list of the U.S. coins made in New Orleans:
The New Orleans Mint officially became a branch mint on March 3, 1835 and first produced coins in 1838, staying in operation until 1861 when the war started. After the Reconstruction period, it began operations again in 1879 up until 1909.
6 Φεβ 2020 · But during its existence, the New Orleans mint struck more than 427 million gold and silver coins with a cumulative face value of over $307,000,000. The building continued to serve the citizens of New Orleans as an assay office again, a federal prison, a Coast Guard facility, and later as a fallout shelter in the 1960s.
