Talk:United States Mint
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When I wrote the Historical United States Mint page, I was unaware of the fact that Wikipedia generally likes longer and more detailed articles. I think given that fact that the information there should be reintegrated into this page... This is something I'll get to eventually if nobody else does it first.
Consider it done. See what you think; I tried to make it flow as best I could but I still think there's a lot of room for improvement. --Chris Lawson 03:47, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Acknowledgement of the Manila mint
There was a mint established in Manila in the Philippines when it was a US colony. An additional tidbit has been added, and still more details can still fit.
[edit] Directors and Engravers
As someone who is not very familiar with mints in general, or the United States Mint in particular, I'd be interested to know what it means to be "Director" or "Engraver". These positions are mentioned in the article, and there are categories for them, so it seems appropriate -- if not here, then on the category pages. Ingrid 19:57, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
- Well, I'll answer in general terms, cause I'm not real sure. Maybe Paul will for sure. Anyways, engraver, I would assume for notability, would only be chief engravers, being the one with final say so on design capabiliteis, maybe engraving the die?, inspecting finished dies, inspecting die-hub transfers, and actuall strikin. Directors, kinda like it says. Does budgets, production reports to the administration, recommendations for changes in compisition or design, final say so of everything, and bueacratic stuffs. Most of this is educated guesses, but...:) Joe I 21:08, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] fractional currency
In rewriting the lead for this article, I removed the following info - "With the creation of the Mint, the U.S. adopted the decimal coinage system. Before this, the accepted standard was the Spanish silver dollar with its fractional "pieces of eight," but British pound, shilling and pence coins were also in use. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton had all strongly argued for the adoption of the decimal system."
While this is no doubt interesting information, I'm not certain it is relevant to the Mint article. Of course, I am open to hearing reasons why I may be wrong. --cholmes75 (chit chat) 19:46, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
