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| Keywords: U.S. Mint at Frisco Makes Coins for China - NARA - 296602.jpg Scope and content For two months employees of the San Francisco Federal Mint worked behind the bullet-proof enclosuresmaking more than 10 million coins for the Chinese government After the mint in Shanghai closed the Chinese sent 150 tons of silver and copper alloys to San Francisco so that the money could be made More than 3 000 000 dollars and twice as many half-dollars were ordered The photograph shows Peter J Haggerty Superintendent of the Mint looking over part of the production of Chinese coins General notes 296602 Local identifier Department of the Treasury Bureau of the Mint U S Mint San Francisco California 1873 - 07/11/1962 NARA's Pacific Region San Bruno NRHAS 1000 Commodore Drive San Bruno CA 94066-2350 1998-06-25 Record group Record Group 104 Records of the U S Mint 1792 - 2007 Record group ARC 433 Photographs of Mint Operations compiled ca 1885 - ca 1938 Series ARC 296601 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NRHS-104-SFMNTMINTOPS-SF454319 Other versions <gallery> File U S _Mint_at_Frisco_Makes_Coins_for_China_-_NARA_-_296602 tif tif File U S _Mint_at_Frisco_Makes_Coins_for_China_-_NARA_-_296602 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Coins of China New United States Mint San Francisco | ||||
