<Tr> <Th> Parent agency </Th> <Td> Department of the Treasury </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.USMint.gov </Td> </Tr> <P> The United States Mint produces circulating coinage for the United States to conduct its trade and commerce, as well as controlling the movement of bullion . It does not produce paper money; that responsibility belongs to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing . The Mint was created in Philadelphia in 1792, and soon joined by other centres, whose coins were identified by their own mint marks . There are currently four active coin - producing mints: Philadelphia, Denver, San Francisco, and West Point . </P> <P> The Mint was created by Congress with the Coinage Act of 1792, and originally placed within the Department of State . Per the terms of the Coinage Act, the first Mint building was in Philadelphia, then the capital of the United States; it was the first building of the Republic raised under the Constitution . Today, the Mint's headquarters (a non-coin - producing facility) are in Washington D.C. . It operates mint facilities in Philadelphia, Denver, San Francisco, and West Point, New York and a bullion depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky . Official Mints (Branches) were once also located in Carson City, Nevada; Charlotte, North Carolina; Dahlonega, Georgia; New Orleans, Louisiana; Washington, D.C.; and even in Manila, in the Philippines . </P>

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