Editor’s Note: For nearly 70 years, the feature-rich pages of Coins magazine, Numismatic News’ venerable sister publication, have tracked the history, fun and the growth of this great hobby, while also attracting new collectors to pursue what was once deemed the “hobby of kings.” Dusting off these time-aged issues, from the early 1960s and beyond, each installment of “Past Times with Coins,” written by its former longtime editor, explores what nuggets of interest they contain.
The “Growth of the United States Mint” was related by Lynn Glaser in the March 1964 issue of Coins magazine.
Beneath a reproduction of a Dec. 6, 1790, congressional resolution authorizing the establishment of a U.S. mint, Glaser wrote:
“The signing of the above document ended the struggle, that had been waged ever since the colonies won their independence, over whether the new country needed a Mint. Now that the issue had been decided it became necessary
