All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #042: Robert Patterson, James Snowden & Augustus Goodyear Heaton – Mint Condition: Laurel Hill’s Coinage Connections, part 1

If you live in Philadelphia, you know about the Philadelphia mint at 5th and Arch.  This is our 4th mint in Philadelphia.  The first opened in 1792 just a few hundred feet away from the current one.  Literally billions of coins have been pressed in its highly efficient, highly secure building.  Thousands of Philadelphians have worked at the mint, and many of them served as either Director or Superintendent.