In the Treasure Corner - Early Coin Facts

[Dan Hughes]

Why was the first United States Mint (pictured above) established in Philadelphia instead of Washington, D.C.?

Why did we abandon the shillings-and-pounds money of our homeland?

By federal law, the portrait of whom (or what) had to appear on all United States coins?

Who was the first president to appear on a regularly-circulated United States coin?

And what four coins authorized by the original Coinage Act are no longer minted for circulation?

Hear the answers to all these questions, and more, in this fast-moving three-minute program.


Listen at In the Corner with Dan Hughes.

 

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