January 11, 2017 -
Press Release June 18, 1970 In answer to inquiries Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Eugene T. Rossides today issued the following statement concerning the weekly sale of silver through General Services Administration: “The Treasury Department will continue to sell silver...
January 23, 2017 -
Press Release May 13, 1970 The Joint Coinage Commission met today to reconsider its position on the minting of an Eisenhower dollar coin. It recommended, by a substantial majority vote, that the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to mint...
January 11, 2017 -
Press Release February 2, 1970 FOR RELEASE AFTER 3 P.M., MST MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1970 Hildreth Frost, Jr., Assistant Professor at Colorado School of Mines, was sworn in today as the Assayer of the Denver Mint. Appointed to this important...
January 11, 2017 -
Press Release January 30, 1970 PRESS MEMO Members of the Press are invited to join Mrs. Mary Brooks, Director of the Mint, for sandwiches and coffee in her office (room 2064, main Treasury) following the Tuesday, A.M., February 3, briefing...
January 23, 2017 -
Press Release December 30, 1968 MEMO TO THE PRESS: Attached for immediate release is the text of a December 20, 1968, letter to the President from Secretary of the Treasury Henry H. Fowler in his capacity as Chairman of the...
December 28, 2016 -
Press Release December 20, 1968 Secretary of the Treasury Henry H. Fowler, Chairman of the Joint Commission on the Coinage, today announced the results of a poll of all Commission members as suggested at the December 5 meeting on the...
February 2, 2017 -
In Answer to Inquiries December 6, 1968 The following excerpts from the press briefing held by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Robert A. Wallace, on Thursday, December 5, 1968, following the meeting of the Joint Commission on the Coinage, answer...
February 2, 2017 -
Press Release September 13, 1968 FOR RELEASE SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS SEPTEMBER 15, 1968 Secretary of the Treasury Henry H. Fowler will officiate at the cornerstone laying ceremonies for the new United States Mint in Philadelphia at 3:00 P.M., EDT, Wednesday, September...
December 28, 2016 -
Press Release August 29, 1968 After nearly two centuries of doing business with a seal whose Latin wording translates as “Seal of the Treasury of North America,” the Treasury Department has a new one reading, in plain English, “The Department...
February 1, 2022 -
On April 2, 1792, Congress passed the Coinage Act, establishing the first national mint in the United States. Congress chose Philadelphia, what was then the nation’s capital, as the site of our first Mint. As gold fever spread across the...
