Handwritten notes on the specifications of the new dollar coin (NAID 2329202) The Eisenhower dollar failed to gain traction with the public upon its introduction into circulation, an issue the mint in part blamed on the size and weight of the coin, and so with those two factors in mind officials went back to the drawing board to devise a smaller dollar coin, one that would ultimately become the Anthony dollar. The then latest in a long history of dollar coins stretching back to 1792, the Eisenhower dollar was the first to not be comprised of gold or silver but rather a copper and nickel combination which the Anthony dollar would follow. Eisenhower dollar coin was first put into production. Our story actually starts back ten years prior to the arrival of the Anthony dollar, when the President Dwight D.

Illustration of obverse and reverse of the Anthony dollar, ca. Two years later, in 1906, the new facility opened and is still in use today, making all denominations of coins which has included the now infamous Susan B. For the next 46 years the office only assayed, melted, and cast gold and silver but in 1904 plans were made to convert the office into a production mint. The Denver Mint is one of the oldest federal institutions in Colorado, first opening in the Colorado Territory as the Denver Mint Assay Office in 1863 to take advantage of the mining boom in the Rocky Mountains. Photograph of the Denver Mint building, date unknown (NAID 293491) Anthony dollar can be found in the Denver Mint records held by the National Archives at Denver. Still occasionally found in change today alongside the newer Sacagawea and presidential dollars coins, the story of the ill-fated Susan B. Anthony dollar coin, minted for only a few short years between 19. Mint one gets a glimpse of the widespread dissatisfaction and derision heaped upon the Susan B. Today’s post was written by Cody White, Archivist at the National Archives in Denver.Ī “Carter Quarter.” The “Edsel of coins.” From newspaper articles found in Record Group 104 Records of the U.S.

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