The Private Mint of Clark, Gruber and Co.

Name: The Private Mint of Clark, Gruber and Co.
Genre: Western
Released: 1962-12-28
Duration: 25 min
Rating: 9.5
Cast: John Lupton, Jerry Paris, Sue Randall

Episode aired Dec 28, 1962
TV-PGTV-PG
25min

S11.E12

Milton Clark and Emanuel Gruber are Denver bankers during it's mining days. They trade dust for coin but running short they produce their own coinage. The US government challenges them which... Read allMilton Clark and Emanuel Gruber are Denver bankers during it's mining days. They trade dust for coin but running short they produce their own coinage. The US government challenges them which leads to changes in the federal mint system.Milton Clark and Emanuel Gruber are Denver bankers during it's mining days. They trade dust for coin but running short they produce their own coinage. The US government challenges them which leads to changes in the federal mint system.

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- TV-PG
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Austin Clark, Milton Clark, and Emmanuel Gruber opened a brokerage office in Denver at the beginning of the Colorado Gold Rush (1858-1861). In 1860, they started minting $10 gold pieces; $2.50, $5, and $20 gold coins were added later. The US Treasury purchased their building and all equipment in April 1863, and they remained a bank until the first National Bank of Denver bought them in 1865.

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This is the story how the Denver Mint was created

Clark, Gruber and company were making silver dollars during a winter when Colorado was snowed in and cut off from the Philadelphia mint and coins were in short supply in Denver. These silver dollars had more silver in them than the dollars made by the Philadelphia mint. After the winter was over the US Treasury sued them for counterfeiting the US currency.In court they proved that they were not counterfeiting because their money was better than the US mint produced dollars. They won the case and to stop them from making dollars the US was forced to buy them out for $25,000 and converted their operations to what became the Denver Mint.

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