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Sometimes my mind goes in strange places while walking the dog.
I was considering how the places I have lived have affected my collecting interests, and it occurred to me I may be unusually lucky to have lived in places that mint (or minted) coins.
So ...
I was born in Philadelphia and later lived over 30 years of my adult life in the Philadelphia area.
In between, I was raised for part of my childhood (age 9-18) in Orange County, New York, where the West Point mint is. I didn't live that close to West Point, but I did have high school classmates whose parents worked there.
So, depending on how rigorous we are on counting, that gives me something between 1 and 2 for now (spoiler alert ... there are more).
How about you? Have you lived in or near a city that mints (or minted in the past) coins? Or a place you have visited often? Did it affect what you collect?
Edited by tdziemia
04/08/2019 07:13 am
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United States
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I'm in Rockville, near DC so no real effect for me. The only thing is it takes less time to get coins from denver as they come with tourists who visit, especially for me Drew events like the Cherry Blossom Festival that's going on right now.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Thanks, grape.
I noticed just moving from Philly to Ohio there are a lot more Denver mint coins here.
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Canada
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Lived in Winnipeg for a while in the 70's, the new mint was under construction at the time.
Does that count?
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm not in Orange County, but I've lived in nearby Westchester, Dutchess, and Ulster counties in NY.
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Australia
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I am 15 minutes from the Perth Mint in Western Australia. I wouldn't buy any of there of there over priced offerings though. Steve :) |
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Australia
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I live about a half hour train ride from Sydney Mint. Operational from 1855 until 1925. Closed down, and now a museum. I have visited on many occasions. I have visited Perth Mint and the Royal Australian Mint (Canberra), on a number of occasions. |
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Lived in Winnipeg for a while in the 70's, the new mint was under construction at the time.
Does that count? Absolutely! When I lived in the vicinity of West Point I think it was still a bullion depository and not actually minting, though that changed after I left home. |
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United States
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I've lived in nearby Westchester, Dutchess, and Ulster counties So maybe there is something in that Hudson Highlands water that grows avid world coin collectors? |
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United States
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I grew up in Denver. I remember visiting the mint a few times with family.
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United States
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I work about a black and a half from the Old Mint in San Francisco. It, and the new mint, are rarely open to the public; I've never been in either one.
It's affected my collecting to a point, in that I have a full set of the 2006 SF Mint commemoratives. But collecting other SF/California commemoratives and SF tokens is more a matter of where I live, not that there happens to be a mint here.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Born and raised in Napa Ca. About 35 miles north east of San Francisco. We mostly see Denver minted coins here though Philadelphia minted coins do make their way hear eventually. While collecting Lincoln's as a kid the majority of them were minted in San Francisco.
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United States
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alpha and tootallius, it's nice to hear from San Francisco.
Collecting Lincolns as a kid, I had to put up with empty holes in my Whitman folders for S mint Lincolns for the longest time. I think I wound up buying most of them at a LCS.
We've now got the current U.S. mints, but I expect we have members who have lived in Charlotte, New Orleans Carson City, etc., too.
And I hope our European colleagues weigh in as well. Best I can tell, if you live in a large European city, it used to be a mint at some time. I'm pretty sure we have at least 3 mints covered in Belgium alone!
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I live in Charlotte now. Can't find many of the local coins in circulation for some reason  |
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Canada
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I live in Ottawa, home of the Royal Canadian Mint. As a child I lived in Winnipeg, but I think that the mint was not built there until much later. It is rather irrelevant to my current collecting interests, but in the past I used to visit the boutique there and pick up a few mint rolls. |
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United Kingdom
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If you live in England, you stand a good chance of living in a former 'mint city', as there were so many provincial mints in Anglo-Saxon and Norman times. I've lived in two: Hythe and Canterbury in Kent. I also lived for a year in Lyon in France, where coins were struck up to the 1850s using the mintmark 'D'.
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