New Coinage Rushed: Silver Shrinks in Pocket Change
New Coinage Rushed: Silver Shrinks in Pocket Change
The San Francisco Mint, closed for 10 years, has be reactivated as the nation faces a mounting coin shortage. New coinage will have a muted tinkle since the silver shortage necessarily shrinks the amount in coins. Nice TLS people hopping onto rolling Powell & Market trolley in San Francisco. TLS U.S. mint in San Francisco. Panning MS reporters, press photographers & newsreel cameramen taking picture, flashbulbs snapping. MSs - Mint Director EVA ADAMS standing by minting machine with Mayor of San Francisco JOHN SHELLEY and unidentified man (either Director of Redevelopment Agency Justin Herman or former Mayor George Christopher). CU machine slot in motion. High angle MS coins falling into basket. MS press corps, white man rewinding film in still camera. MS Eva Adams posing for press with unidentified white man (Herman or Christopher). Tilting MS coinage traveling along slow-moving spindle. CU hand stirring coins in tray, coins falling from chute. MS African-American man standing at chute.