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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1545750, member: 12789&quot;]The old mint there has been closed since after the 1989 earthquake.&nbsp; It was sold to San Francisco for a silver dollar a few years ago and they have been slowly turning it into a city museum - but the seismic retrofits are taking a long time.&nbsp; It will be nothing like it was back in the late 1970&#039;s when they had an amazing gold exhibit of pioneer gold coins and bars.&nbsp; They even had a million dollar gold bar display in one of the vaults.&nbsp; They had an amazing store and I still have the souvenirs I bought there.</p><p><br /></p><p>The last time I had gone to the mint was in the late 1980&#039;s.&nbsp; By then all the gold exhibits and most of the coins were gone because of insurance hassles.&nbsp; The front entrance served as a public toilet for vagrants, and the smell was sickening.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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