Good "foreign coins by the US mint" reference site

[Robert]

[/url]http://minterrornews.com/news-5-13-03-foreigners_in_the_mint.html[url]

Lots of things there I did not know.

"The New Orleans, Louisiana mint never had a chance to display its “O” mint mark on a foreign coin since its one and only foreign issue was a 1907 Mexican silver 20 Centavos piece that bore the Mexico City mint mark from where the coinage dies originated."



"Olin: As the longest continuous supplier of metal to the US Mint, Olin Brass' Posit-Bond® clad metal is used in quarters, dimes and half dollars. In 1999, Olin Brass developed the unique alloy that the US Mint uses for the Sacajawea “Golden Dollar” coins

Sherritt Gordon/Westaim, Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada, No longer produces coinage blanks. Blanks made by Westaim were provided by the Canadian mint to the US Mint during the production ramp up in 1998 and 1999 in anticipation of monetary shortages due to the Y2K event and the introduction of the new one dollar coin.

PMX Industries is located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, it is a wholly owned division of Poongsan Corporation of Korea since November 1998, and has supplied almost half of the coinage strips used by the U.S. Mint since 1992."


"Providence Mint, Gorham Manufacturing Company, founded 1818 by Jabez Gorham to produce jewelry items. Coinage did not start until the 1890's. This independent mint minted coins for Cuba from 1897 to 1898 and produced coinage for Ecuador in 1919 and Serbia in 1917."


Also look at all their partial registries of known :

US Coins on foreign planchets

and

foreign coins struck on US Planchets

I had NO idea those were out there! Many are recent errors too!



VERY good site!!!



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[Robert]

Oh well... While I'm at it...



Olin website:

http://www.olinbrass.com/




Closest thing to a Sheritt Gordon website I could find:

http://www.digistar.mb.ca/minsci/areas/ll.htm




PMX website:

http://www.ipmx.com/html/index.html

[Steve]

That was a really good article, Robert. There is a downloadable Excel spreadsheet that goes with it, too. I had started this thread over on Numisaddict on the subject and wanted to (still do) get a sortable website going with pictures. http://www.numisaddict.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=769

That article took some of the wind out of my sails, though...

Oh, on the 1907 Mexican coins, the Krause lists the curved 7 varieties with the same mintage as the US Mint report, so I'm assuming that they believe the curved 7s were the ones made in the US.

[Robert]

Didn't mean to take the wind out of your sails, Steve. I just post sites that I think others would find useful.

As for New Orleans, I bet you're right about the mintages.

[Steve]

Robert, I didn't mean to imply that you had anything to do with it. I was talking about back in May when that article came out.