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Message:: [QUOTE="Troodon, post: 334062, member: 4626"]Denver's not as old a city as Philadelphia of course but there's still a lot to see in near proximity to the Mint.  It's right across the street from the City and COunty Building and just a couple blocks from the Capitol.  Easy to get around with the 16th street mall shuttle (free!) and the light rail (fairly cheap). Yep, no cameras or recording equipment, and be prepared to have any bags you bring along searched for them.  There's a place to check such things though if need be, but if you can just avoid having them you're better off.  Standard tour is free, but the standard public tour only allows you to observation areas a floor above the actual presses (and in one place, where they were packaging uncirculated sets, still the 2007).  Anything else is by special arrangement, such as with ANA special tours and such. No idea why they'd care about citizenship or nationality... I was never asked for any kind of ID and I could have been Canadian or Swedish as far as they knew (native born US citizen, but they had no way of knowing that).  Seems odd unless Philadelphia just has stricter security for some reason. Not seen any 2008 Denver coinage yet in circulation, but did get a roll's worth of Oklahoma quarters from the machine in the gift shop (where I get all my state quarters and president dollars... show up there quickly and only cost me face value lol...).[/QUOTE]