NEW BOOK: EARLY ERA OF THE NEW ORLEANS MINT

 

Treatise of the Early Era of the New Orleans Mint 1837-1861
by Richard G. Kelly, Nancy Y. Oliver

This is our contribution to Newman's Numismatic Portal online. It is a treatise of the history of the early years of the New Orleans Mint from 1837 until the takeover by the Confederacy in 1861. The work is taken from the many thousands of copies made of Mint Record Group 104 by two noted numismatic researchers, Robert Julian and Roger Burdette, and archivists at the National Archives in Philadelphia and College Park, Maryland.

It is 75 pages long and contains information about the building, employees and coinage. Put together chronologically, and noted from hand written letters (many hard to decipher) from mint officials and others, it took two years to complete. Some years' info has been gleaned from other Portal sources and contemporary newspapers from the period when copies from the archives were not accomplished. However, a recent surge of copies from these sparse years noted is now coming available, and this will require a future update and revision of this said work. This will take some time.

Anyway, because of our appreciation for these folks' untiring efforts to make this information available to researchers, we have decided to donate this work to the Portal with free access to all. Enjoy.

To read the complete work, see:
Treatise of the early era of the New Orleans Mint 1837-1861 (https://archive.org/details/TreatiseNewOrleansMint)

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