Going To The Mint

Yep, the store is what we will do in Denver next month. But I also go to the East "coast" (mostly NYC) from time to time, so if seeing the minting facilities in Philadelphia is less difficult for foreign visitors, this may be an option for late 2005. If you could let me know once you hear back from your congressman, that would be very nice.

Christian

 

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Mint Tour

You know I sure do miss the old days. I use to visit the San Francisco mint and never had to make an appointment or get my congresspersons approval. I showed up and within an hour I got to tour. I really liked the gift shop a lot.

Oh Well times change....

 

I remember my first visit to the U.S. Mint (Denver). I was probably in junior high school, and went with my Mother. They had it closed down for some reason, but had $1 million worth of gold bricks that we could look at through heavy glass.

I could hardly wait to try again. I had visions of all those shiny new coins, and geting to scoop them up and run my hands through them (remember Scrooge McDuck in the comics?).

Anyway, as previously posted, when I returned to the Mint I found that the tour didn't involve handling shiny new coins, but amounted to listening to a tour guide, looking through plate glass at minting machinery, and then perhaps buying something at the store.

One benefit was vendors on the sidewalk outside the Mint's exit doors. I did buy several coins from them, at fair prices.

 

Do I remember Scrooge McDuck..? A duck with 3 1/2 cubic acres of money? The only book that came close was Richie Rich. A kid with a weekly allowence of $50,000.00 couldn't be all bad. I only got a quarter



catman

 

WOW, this is an old thread that I started. When I was there this past summer, you could not even get into the store let alone the Mint without a congressional "reference".

From this past "Christmas Trivia Contest" I did learn a lot of the history of the mint though. That was fun !!

 

Wow , this is an old thread that I started. Even this past summer when I attempted to go, you could not get into the store, let alone the Mint itself without a Congressioanl "reference".

With the past Christmas Trivia contest, I did learn alot about the history of Mint though, Thanks !!