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Numismatic Article for Fall 2025

The featured article for Fall is Uncurrent Events: Historic Coin Production and the US Mint by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

A common misconception about the Federal Reserve System (the Fed) is that it is responsible for producing physical currency: coins and paper notes.

While the Fed distributes coins and paper notes to depository institutions and uses its monetary policy tools to alter the overall supply of money in the economy, responsibility for manufacturing coins and paper notes falls to the Department of the Treasury.

Within the Treasury, there are two separate agencies responsible for producing coins and paper notes: The Mint produces coins, while the Bureau of Engraving and Printing produces paper notes.

This article will focus on the history of the Mint, as well as details about coins in the colonial period, in the days of the early republic, and through the early twentieth century.

Go to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis website to read the full article and view photos of historical coins and early minting equipment.   Click Here.

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