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Report on the Establishment of a Mint

(1791)


Book Summary

Alexander Hamilton's 1791 report to Congress, "On the Establishment of a Mint." 


Extracted from Official Reports on Publick Credit, A National Bank, Manufactures, and a Mint (Philadelphia: published by William McKean, 1821). This report is also present in the American State Papers, Finance, vol. 1, no. 24 (1st Congress, 3rd session).

See also Financial History (Spring 2022) including an article by Eric Brothers on Hamilton's "Report on the Establishment of a Mint" (1791).

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