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==History== | ==History== | ||
[[File:San Francisco-First US Branch Mint-1854.jpg|thumb|The First U.S. Branch Mint in California, which opened on April 3, 1854, is located at 608–619 Commercial Street in | [[File:San Francisco-First US Branch Mint-1854.jpg|thumb|The First U.S. Branch Mint in California, which opened on April 3, 1854, is located at 608–619 Commercial Street in San Francisco. The building now houses the San Francisco Historical Society.]]The first authorization for the establishment of a mint in the United States was in a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation of February 21, 1782, and the first general-circulation coin of the United States, the Fugio cent, was produced in 1787 based on the Continental dollar. | ||
The current United States Mint was created by [[United States Congress|Congress]] with the Coinage Act of 1792, and originally placed within the [[United States Department of State|Department of State]]. Per the terms of the Coinage Act, the first Mint building was in Philadelphia, which was then the capital of the United States; it was the first building of the United States raised under the Constitution. The mint's headquarters is a non-coin-producing facility in [[Washington D.C.]] It operates mint facilities in Philadelphia, Denver, San Francisco, and West Point, New York, and a bullion depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Official Mints (Branches) were once also located in Carson City, Nevada; Charlotte, North Carolina; Dahlonega, Georgia; New Orleans, Louisiana; and in Manila, in the Philippines. | The current United States Mint was created by [[United States Congress|Congress]] with the Coinage Act of 1792, and originally placed within the [[United States Department of State|Department of State]]. Per the terms of the Coinage Act, the first Mint building was in Philadelphia, which was then the capital of the United States; it was the first building of the United States raised under the Constitution. The mint's headquarters is a non-coin-producing facility in [[Washington D.C.]] It operates mint facilities in Philadelphia, Denver, San Francisco, and West Point, New York, and a bullion depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Official Mints (Branches) were once also located in Carson City, Nevada; Charlotte, North Carolina; Dahlonega, Georgia; New Orleans, Louisiana; and in Manila, in the Philippines. | ||