Comments by "Sar Jim" (@sarjim4381) on "The Manila Mint and the End of the Colonial era" video.

  1. The Dahlonega GA and Charlotte NC mints, operated from 1838 to 1861, only minted gold coins, and generally using gold mined from the SE United States. The first gold in the country was mined in Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina. Both were taken over the Confederate states and operated as mints for the CSA until it became clear there just wasn't enough gold being mined to keep the mints operating. Neither mint was reopened after the war, but Charlotte was operated as an assay office from 1867 to 1913, when the supply of gold from the SE US slowed to a trickle, and the assay office was no longer needed. Both mints, along with Manila, are the least remembered of the many mints that operated at one time.
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  2.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  And here I thought I had seen all your videos by now. I should have known better. :-) I've been a coin collector most of my life, and I don't know how that one slipped by me. Thanks.
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