"O" Puzzle Box Gold!!!
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The New Orleans Mint — Old U.S. Mint — harkens back to a time long ago gone by, since the building still standing today serves only as a museum to the former mint, and also to the history of New Orleans jazz.
Originally a U.S. branch mint, it changed hands in 1861 to become a mint of the Confederacy, whereupon an inventory reported that the mint vaults contained half a million dollars in gold and silver. The following year, just before New Orleans was surrendered back to the Union, a controversy occurred whereby one of its residents — William Bruce Mumford — was tried for high crimes and misdemeanors against the laws of the United States, and later hanged in the courtyard of the mint.
His "high" crime: removing a hastily flown United States flag from the mint, even though its removal took place before Union troops had received an official surrender from John T. Monroe, Mayor of New Orleans.
Thankfully, today New Orleans is primarily remembered for its Mardi Gras festivals and “Big Easy” lifestyle, French Quarter cuisine and elegance, the birth of jazz music, and for all of us numismatists… our beloved “O” mintmark coins.
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