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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 2985656, member: 59677&quot;]Following up on [USER=26010]@charlottedude[/USER]&#039;s branch mint lovelies... </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]735423[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>For some reason dies were made and shipped to New Orleans for the first year of production of the trime. Nine pairs. But only the first year.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not like NO&#039;s 720,000 minting was a big addition to Philadelphia&#039;s 5,447,400 for the year. It couldn&#039;t be raw capacity: Philly hit over 18M and 11M the 2nd and 3rd years - which pretty much filled the demand.</p><p><br /></p><p>Until 1908/1909 (Indian Head Cents in San Francisco) and 1912, when Liberty nickels were struck in San Francisco and Denver, the 1851O trime was the ONLY minor (non-silver) US Coin struck in a branch mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>Charlotte and Dahlonega only minted gold. Carson City minted Gold and Silver coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, you are looking at the only Branch Mint minor coin of the 19th Century![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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