Trip To The CC Mint.

The land that the Mint sits on next to the Saint Louis #1 cemetery is one of the highest areas in New Orleans and as Conder mentioned, most exhibits were safely stored beforehand and the building itself only sustained minor damage. However, it was something of a blessing in disguise as the Mint(now Louisiana State Museum) received a much-needed infusion of cash and collection items after Katrina. The Mint exhibit has been completely renovated with collections on loan from Lynn Ourso and Rick Demers(two Lousiana dealers and specialists in NO coinage) now on display.

As for Charlotte and Dahlonega, the old mint in Charlotte is now the http://www.mintmuseum.org/]Mint Museum of Art[/url]. The building is the original but the location is not. Dahlonega has met a much more unpleasant fate, the building was destroyed by fire in 1878 and a new building was built on the foundation. It is located on what is now the campus of North Georgia University.

Great virtual collection johnny. It's been years since I've been there, but I remember them having a detailed map of the ore bodies in the Comstock Lode, going down 2-3 miles underneath Virginia City. Two things immediately came to mind:

-Whenever all that stoping finally rots, Virginia City will drop out of sight. There'll be no more shopping for taffy and cap guns at the Bucket of Blood. Better hurry!

-They used enough wood in that hole to turn the Cartwright's Ponderosa Ranch into a desert.

At one time I worked on the site where the old Oregon Territorial mint was located. I often meant to take a metal detector to work to see whether I could turn up a Beaver coin or two....

WOW! I missed that stop, and I was in Virgnia City too. That sounds super cool, though I'm hoping the coins were problem coins to begin with and/or werent damaged in the process. How did I miss that?