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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 11292636, member: 26302&quot;]Yes, of course as others pointed out, the mints were located there because of local ore. I was just saying the mint made gold in Philadelphia and a smaller amount at Charlotte and Dahlonega. Once made, it would have been silly to ship Philadelphia coins to Atlanta, Nashville, New Orleans, (before their own mint), etc when the southern mints were closer. So therefor the distribution of the southern mints tended to be in the south for simple minimization of distribution costs. Therefor more were found initially, (before coin collectors), in the south than elsewhere. However, they were coins meant to be traded, so of course some would naturally circulate everywhere.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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