The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 47, November 18, 2007, Article 15

ON THE 1817 MINT REPORT

Last week David F. Fanning wrote: "While doing some research,
I came across a quotation attributed to the 1817 Mint Report
in The E-Sylum edition of January 16, 2000. It turned out,
however, that the quotation is from the 1816 Mint Report, as
published on January 7, 1817.  Rather than writing to correct
old errors, however, I have a question: can anybody tell me
if a Mint Report for the year 1817 was published?  I am not
finding anything in the American State Papers besides an
April 15, 1818 report on the Mint... "

Dave Ginsburg writes: "The April 15, 1818 document (15th
Congress, 1st Session, H.Doc. 199) does appear to be the
Mint's Annual Report for 1817, as I can find only two other
reports from the Mint for 1818, both of which deal with assays
of foreign coins.  It certainly does seem to be rather late,
as the same report for 1818 (15th Congress, 2nd Session, H.
Doc. 150) is dated February 25, 1819.

"On somewhat the same topic, I was delighted recently to
'trip' over two Mint Annual Reports on books.google.com -
the 1870 Report (unfortunately, the digital file is incomplete
- it starts on page 8 of the report) and the 1857 report,
which is contained in the Secretary of the Treasury's Annual
Report on the Finances.   The 1857 report marks the transition
from calendar year to fiscal year reporting for the Mint, so
it only covers the first six months of 1857."

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