Description

The 2006 Old San Francisco Mint $5 Gold Coin was issued along with a $1 silver coin to mark the centennial of the building’s survival of the 1906 earthquake and fire.

The Old San Francisco Mint (also Old United States Mint or simply Old Mint, nicknamed The Granite Lady) is a building that served as the location of the San Francisco branch of the United States Mint from 1874 until 1937. The building is one of the few that survived the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake and resulting fire. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961, and as a California Historical Landmark in 1974.