The Branch Mint of Charlotte, North Carolina
"Thar's gold in them thar hills!" That was the cry that echoed across
the land at the start of the first gold rush in the United States. That
was in the early 1800's.
branch mint: any U.S. Mint other than the Philadelphia Mint (the "mother" of all mints).
brass: a yellow alloy of copper and zinc.
Branch Mint - Any federal coining facility except the Philadelphia Mint.
Bracteate - A very thin medieval European coin with the design impressed on one side showing through to the other side.
branch mint
A subsidiary mint affiliated with the main mint of a country. In the U.S., any government mint other than the Philadelphia Mint.
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branch mint One of the various subsidiary government facilities that struck, or still strikes, coins. See also BM.
Branch Mint
Any US Mint other than Philadelphia. The first Branch Mints were established in the late 1830's in Charlotte, Dahlonega and New Orleans. See also: MINT ...
Other branch mint coinage contemplated: Footnote to the 1861 dollar coinage: Two reverse dies were shipped to Charlotte, two to New Orleans, and four to San Francisco, but none of these were used for 1861 coinage.
Branch mint coins, identified by an "S" or "D" are highly valued by collectors, often worth twice the Philadelphia nickel.
Any buffalo nickel dated in the teens, with a readable date and either a "D" or "S" mintmark is in demand.
Branch MintAny federal coining facility except the Philadelphia Mint. See mintmark.
Business StrikeA coin given only one blow from the dies, intended for normal circulation or commercial use; same as production coin.
branch mint
Any US Mint facility other than the Philadelphia Mint. Currently the Denver, San Francisco, and West Point mint. Get Site info
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The branch Mint established in 1838 in New Orleans, Louisiana. It struck coins for the United States until its seizure in 1861 by the Confederacy.
Several branch mints are no longer in operation. These mints were located in Carson City, Nevada (mint mark, CC); Charlotte, North Carolina (C); Dahlonega, Georgia (D); and New Orleans, Louisiana (O).
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Southern Branch Mints
The U.S. Mint struck $5 Liberty gold pieces in extremely low mintages at brand mints in Dahlonega, Georgia, and Charlotte, North Carolina.
Short for "Branch Mint," referring to U.S. Mint (except Philadelphia).
bourse
A location where dealers buy and sell coins with each other and the public, such as at a coin show.
Dahlonega
The branch Mint located in Dahlonega, Georgia that struck gold coins from 1838 until 1861 when it was seized by the Confederacy.
Since the first branch mint that produced silver coins was the New Orleans facility, which began operations in 1838, all of the dimes of this type were manufactured in Philadelphia.
THE UNITED STATES BRANCH MINT AT DAHLONEGA, GEORGIA
Although gold was found all the way from Virginia to Alabama, a particularly rich belt was discovered on Cherokee Indian land in Georgia, near what was to become Dahlonega, in 1828, ...
S-Mint Term applied to the coins struck at the San Francisco, California branch Mint. Sac Short for Sacagawea Dollar. Sacagawea Dollar The Sacagawea dollar is a one dollar value circulating coin that was introduced in the year 2000.
branch mints - minting branches of the U.S. government minting facility. The Philadephia Mint has been the main mint for US coins. Other mints are considered branch mints.
Branch Mint, New Orleans. Accessed 22 June 2005.
^ Evans, 163.
^ Museum exhibit placard, Old U.S. Branch Mint, New Orleans. Accessed 22 June 2005. Also see Lambousy, 41-2.
Although Congress failed to authorize a branch mint for San Francisco, in 1850, as a stop-gap measure, it approved an Assay Office in its stead. The government contract to produce fifty-dollar ingots was awarded to Moffat & Co.
Some attribute these coins to a branch mint at Viminacium. Others allow a mint in this city but do not to include these types.
With all the gold coming out of Georgia and North Carolina during the late 1820's and early 1830's, branch mints were established in those two states. Yet another was established in New Orleans, Louisiana as well.
Another rarity, though not quite as well known, is the 1875-S branch mint proof. Confirmed to exist by B. Max Mehl in the 1930s, only about a half dozen are known today.
Curtis and Perry took that contract to furnish both building and machinery for the new United States Branch Mint. Curtis attended to the expansion of the building and Perry to the making of all arrangements for the machinery.
For anyone wishing to read more on John Reid, the Reid Gold Mine, and the early history of North Carolina Gold, I might suggest the following books: The Establishment of the Charlotte Branch Mint - A Documented History by Anthony J.
There are 24 coins in the proof Barber dime series, not counting the branch mint proof 1894-S. The mintages range from 425 for the 1914 to 1,245 for the first-year-of-issue 1892. A grand total of 17,353 proof coins were produced for the whole series.
Pieces were produced at various branch mints up through 1879, after which coinage was effected at the Philadelphia Mint only. A collection within a collection can be made of quarter eagles toward the end of the series, from 1880 to 1907.
Explanation: A term for all possible coins within a series, all types, or all coins from a particular branch Mint.
The mint mark is found only on coins struck at the branch mints. The mint mark is a small letter typically found on the reverse side of the coin (starting in 1982 the United States Mint began putting mint marks for all mints on the obverse side of ...
States rarities (Figure 4), among which are the Brasher doubloon of 1787, the half eagle of 1822 (Figure 3), two 1804-dollars (Figures 6 & 7), the 1838 proof half dollar struck at the New Orleans Mint, the first 50-cent piece issued by a branch mint, ...
There was little or no thought given to branch mint collecting. Indeed, few if any collectors were even aware that there were branch mints striking coins. Only after Dr.
All mintmarks at that time were added to the dies in Philadelphia before they were shipped to the various branch mints.
By 1916 the Melbourne branch mint was equipped for the striking of silver coins and so it assumed that task but bronze coins were struck in Calcutta branch mint as well as at the Heaton mint.
C - Mintmark used at the Branch Mint in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Cabinet friction - Slight surface wear on a coin, medal or token caused by friction between it and the tray in which it is contained.
CAM - Abbreviation for Cameo.
Even though it is part of a relatively popular series (No Motto New Orleans half eagles) and it is clearly the key issue in this set, it is still priced at a fraction of the less rare key date branch mint issues from Charlotte and Dahlonega.
At the point in time that these coins were made, the dies sent to the individual branch mints would be punched with the proper mint mark letter for that branch.
Philip I, AR Antoninianus, 249, Branch Mint?
IMP - PHILIPPVS AVG
Radiate, draped, cuirassed bust right, seen from behind
AEQVITAS AVGG
Aequitas standing left, scales in right hand, cornucopiae in left
20mm x 21mm, 2.99g
RIC IV, Part III, -- ...
Generally speaking, these coins were struck at the Philadelphia mint (other branch mints were used occasionally, however) and were sold at a premium by the commission who organized the commemorative events.
The majority were made at the Philadelphia Mint with only two branch mints producing the With Motto type. Numismatists generally collect this coin as a type, because it is difficult to find affordable examples of many dates in this series.
Pre-1968 proofs were made only at the Philadelphia Mint except in a few rare instances in which presentation pieces were struck at branch mints. Current proofs are made at the San Francisco an West Point mints.
 See also: Coin, Mint, Collector, Struck, Reverse
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