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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 2259654, member: 15588&quot;]I visited the Philadelphia mint two years ago. They have a nice display in the lobby covering the basics of minting and a general history of US coins. The tour itself was completely self-guided and required reading numerous didactics along the way, most of which contained only basic information. No tour guides, no one to answer questions, no one but other tourists in a long endless hallway. It still managed to be very interesting in a kind of lonely, meandering way.</p><p><br /></p><p>The gift shop was packed with Whitman books and proof coins. Feeling parsimonious, I bought only a single proof W-mint silver eagle. Everything seemed a little marked up, if I remember right, so I held back.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone who finds themselves in Winnipeg has to take the mint tour. Everything about it was fantastic. The tour guide explained everything and even answered detailed questions. There was a display where you can see a mint press up close as it mints a token a foot in front of your face. The ground trembles beneath you. There was even an armed guard with an enormous gold ingot chained to the ground that they let you pick up and hold. And I won&#039;t even get started on the gift shop. The only negative was finding the mint, which proved a little challenging since our GPS didn&#039;t function north of the border. But it was definitely worth the minor frustration.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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