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The Day the Mint Opened
San Francisco Daily Herald. COMPLETE ISSUE OF A SAN FRANCISCO NEWSPAPER, WITH NUMISMATIC CONTENT, PUBLISHED ON THE DAY THE SAN FRANCISCO MINT OPENED. Volume IV, Number 305. San Francisco, Monday Morning, April 3, 1854. Large tabloid. 4 pages. Folded; some spotting. Spine a bit ragged, but holding. Very good. A San Francisco newspaper published the very morning the San Francisco Mint opened its doors for business. While the opening is not discussed, the paper includes a report on page 2 regarding the deposits of gold and silver made at the Philadelphia Mint in February 1854, and the resulting coinage, noting specifically the gold that came from California.
San Francisco Daily Herald. COMPLETE ISSUE OF A SAN FRANCISCO NEWSPAPER, WITH NUMISMATIC CONTENT, PUBLISHED ON THE DAY THE SAN FRANCISCO MINT OPENED. Volume IV, Number 305. San Francisco, Monday Morning, April 3, 1854. Large tabloid. 4 pages. Folded; some spotting. Spine a bit ragged, but holding. Very good. A San Francisco newspaper published the very morning the San Francisco Mint opened its doors for business. While the opening is not discussed, the paper includes a report on page 2 regarding the deposits of gold and silver made at the Philadelphia Mint in February 1854, and the resulting coinage, noting specifically the gold that came from California.