I have been a coin collector since I was about 8 or 9 years old. Coins minted at branch mints have always been more desirable to most collectors. Odd issues usually got more attention from me than the more common standard issues. Three-cent, two-cent, 20-cent coins are among the oddest. so, I am most familiar with the "fine points" of those issues. So, as I was reading through this date in history, I see something that conflicts with what I know to be fact. I have in my possession a coin dated 1851 with a mint mark from New Orleans. Does that make this an unauthorized issue??? So, I got out my Red Book and looked it up. Branch mints were authorized near where gold or silver was mined or sourced to reduce the cost and the risk in shipping across the country. As such, mints were authorized in Georgia, North Carolina, Louisiana, Nevada, and California.
My source is "The Official Red Book of United States Coins" by R. S. Yeoman and published by Whitman Publishing LLC.
FYI - the number of sources you use becomes irrelevant if they all get their information from the same place. In this case, your source(s) are simply wrong.
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