Talk:New Orleans Mint

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Contrary to what this article suggest the Mint is not an atypical piece of neoclassical architecture, it is a not untypical example of American Greek Revival architecture. Talbot Hamlin discusses this building in his "Greek Revival Architecture in America". This section could use rewriting. Twospoonfuls 23:24, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 Reference and Such 2 Congratulations 3 Confederate half-dollar 4 Silver dust

[edit] Reference and Such

On the first paragraph opening the article, I realized it needs some references for the information it has. I was also wondering if the amount of money it stated was in that times value of US money, or is that was the amount it was worth in today. This is very important to our readers. As I cannot fix this, I hope someone else does. Thanks, PЄ|>ρ3® 00:33, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

OK, so I was the one who added the portion about how much coinage the Mint produced. The paragraph should read that $307 million is the total face value of the coinage. As in, you multiply the face value of each of the coins ever produced by the Mint by the number of coins of each type ever produced. For example, the Mint produced a total of 720,000 3-cent pieces (all in 1851). 3 cents times 720,000 comes out to $21,600. None of the values have been adjusted for inflation. This has been added now in a footnote. Absecon 59 16:52, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations

Congratulations to all those who worked on this article, I am so happy to see numismatics-related articles of this quality. Paul 06:23, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Confederate half-dollar

The Confederate half-dollar should be included in the list of produced coins at the bottom of the page. Same for the Confederate penny if it has any connection to the New Orleans Mint. Valentinian ^{T / C} 08:38, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Silver dust

I can find no evidence that this is poisonous, rather the contrary. Removed for the moment. Rich Farmbrough, 14:54 7 March 2007 (GMT).