New Orleans Mint
Site, New Orleans, Louisiana.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Site
- Where
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- Years
- 1861-1862
- Today
- Museum
NEW ORLEANS MINT
Louisiana took the mint on secession with $483,983 in gold and silver in the vault. Under the Confederacy it struck 962,633 of the 1861-O half dollars until the bullion ran out, then quartered Confederate troops until Farragut's forces took the city in April 1862.
Then
Louisiana took the mint on secession with $483,983 in gold and silver in the vault. Under the Confederacy it struck 962,633 of the 1861-O half dollars from April 1 until the bullion ran out that month, and an unknown number with a Confederate reverse die.
Staff stayed until May 31, 1861, after which the building quartered Confederate troops until Farragut's forces took the city in April 1862. William Mumford was hanged there on June 7, 1862, for tearing down the U.S. flag from its roof.
Now
Museum
Since 1981 the mint has been a branch of the Louisiana State Museum, with exhibits on coinage and the New Orleans Jazz Museum.
Track in service today runs beside the site, on a line owned by a smaller railroad.
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