{"id":3857,"date":"2026-04-02T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3857"},"modified":"2025-12-11T23:16:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:16:46","slug":"first-united-states-mint-was-established-in-philadelphia-in-1792","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3857","title":{"rendered":"First United States Mint Was Established in Philadelphia in 1792"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-15788\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Philadelphia-Mint-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"195\" \/>First United States mint was established in Philadelphia in 1792<\/strong>. It produced silver half-dismes and dismes (now spelled dimes). The mint is still active, and other mints are functioning in Denver and San Francisco. Children could visit the mint\u2019s website, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>particularly the games section<\/strong><\/span>, at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usmint.gov\/kids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">usmint.gov\/kids<\/a>. \u00a0Idea: Children\u00a0could debate the idea of eliminating the production of the penny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First United States mint was established in Philadelphia in 1792. It produced silver half-dismes and dismes (now spelled dimes). The mint is still active, and other mints are functioning in Denver and San Francisco. Children could visit the mint\u2019s website, particularly the games section, at: usmint.gov\/kids. \u00a0Idea: Children\u00a0could debate the idea of eliminating the production <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3857' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5450,5448,2339,2338,370,2039,2337],"class_list":["post-3857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5450","tag-april-2","tag-denver","tag-mint","tag-philadelphia","tag-san-francisco","tag-united-states-mint","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3857"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22165,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions\/22165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}