On our second to last day of our Denver trip I had quite a few places still on my to do list and we were going to try and visit as many of them as we could. The first stop and the focus of this post was one I had been looking forward too even before we arrived in Colorado and that was the U.S. Mint.

I have visited the Mint in Philadelphia quite a few years ago and pressed those pennies so I was anxious to get a set from this location to keep that collecting going.

The architecture of the building was beautiful, and the tall pointy fence surrounding it was a bit intimidating. But there was some very import inventory inside this building especially for us collectors, even if they are made out of zinc now a days.

My plan was to take a tour inside the mint, but unfortunately by the time we arrived all the tour tickets had been distributed for the day which was unfortunately. Thankfully all was not lost and we were able to explore the gift shop.

It wasn’t very big inside, however they had quite a selection of coin related merchandise and souvenirs. I even found some t-shirts, and coin storage supplies among other things.

Not to mention quite a few large glass cabinets that had all sorts of uncirculated coin sets, and many different unique coin collections.

Near the check out counter I even found some penny in a bottles. I checked quite a few of them hoping to find a pre-1982 copper, unfortunately there weren’t any too be found. These were still a fun souvenir for our trip so I picked one up anyways to add to my penny in a bottle collection which has slowly been growing recently.

Of course the main event for this visit was the pressed penny machine. It was located just inside the entrance / exit door and is pretty easy to find if you visit here. I loved the vibrant colors of the vinyl wrap on the machine. Plus the machine was still only $0.50 and I was able to press this set on some copper pennies I had brought with me.

I loved this set of penny designs. There was only one for the U.S. Mint that had the building exterior. The other designs included some fun images of Colorado icons like down hill skiing, a buffalo (maybe bison?) and the rocky mountains with the tag line The Mile High Club.

This was a fun and quick visit which actually worked in our favor since we still had a few more places to try and get to this day. Stay tuned for those last few posts as we slowly start to come towards the conclusion of our trip. Thanks for visiting, and as always Keep on Pressing!

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