100 Years of Gangsters, Gold, and Ghosts
Table of Contents
Chapter l: The City Beautiful - 1900-1920
• How the Mint Came to Denver
• The City Beautiful Movement
Chapter 2: Crime and Punishment at the Denver Mint - 1920-1930
• Life at the Mint During the Crime-Happy Twenties
• The “Wooden Leg Robber” and the Great Mint Robbery of 1922
Chapter 3: Show Me the Gold - 1930-1940
• The History of Gold in the Mint
Chapter 4: The Winds of War - 1940–1960
• The Impact of World War II on the Mint and its Money
Chapter 5: Scantily Clad Coins - 1960–1970
• The Silver Shortage of the Sixties and the Controversial Switch to
Sandwich Coins
Chapter 6: Decades of Dubious Developments - 1970–1990
• The Mint’s Move (Almost) to the Suburbs
• A Woman on our Money – The Disastrous Susan B. Anthony Dollar
Chapter 7: New, New, New for the Nineties - 1990-2000
• The Mint’s Reinvention
• Another Woman on the Dollar
Chapter 8: The New Millennium at the Mint - 2000 and Beyond
• Life at the Factory
• New Products and Security for the New Millennium
Denver
Mint - Lisa Ray Turner and Kimberly Field present a charming selection
of stories surrounding the origins and history of the mile-high mint.
