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unusual facts about Assay office


Dukes Highway

The 'Bullion Act' was passed and an Assay office was established in Adelaide for the assaying and stamping of gold in 1852.


Denver Mint

Established by an Act of Congress on April 21, 1862, the United States Mint at Denver opened for business in late 1863 as a United States Assay Office.


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Birmingham Assay Office

The Birmingham Assay Office moved from the pub in 1815 to its own offices at Little Cannon Street and then moved to its current home on Newhall Street in the Jewellery Quarter in 1877, and is now the largest Assay Office in Europe, hallmarking 13 million articles in 2003.

William Francis Hillebrand

After returning home to the United States in 1878, he opened an assay office in Leadville, Colorado, in 1879, and then started working as a chemist at the United States Geological Survey in 1880.