Historic Tours: The Denver Mint
- ISBN-10
- 1558380361
- ISBN-13
- 9781558380363
- Category
- Mints
- Pages
- 42
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-05-01
- Publisher
- Primer Publishers
- Author
- David Eitemiller
Description
Contents: The Spanish Explorers; Gold Rush to California, Beginning of a Settlement, Gold Fever Strikes; Gold is Found; Gold Fever; Spreads; Clark, Gruber and Co; Already on the Western Front; Gold Finds in the Mountains; Money in a Mining Camp; Plans for a Mint; Two Small Towns -- Side by Side, 1860; The Mint Opens; Gold Coins and Paper Money; The View of an Eastern Visitor, 1861; Mr Clark Goes to Washington; Congress; Votes to Buy Clark, Gruber and Co; Robbery, Flood, and Indian Uprising; The Denver Mint; The Silver West; Plans for a New Mint; Denver -- a City Emerging; The Building; Coinage; The Second Mint Robbery; Federal Bank; Truck Raided at Mint; Bullion Transfer; Pennies and Nickels; Go to War; Additions to the Building; A Special Collection; Queen City of the Plains; Coinage Today; Process of Making a Coin; The Grand Hall; Gold Bullion; The Numismatic Room; The Sweeps Cellar.
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