United States of America Money Law Read the complete original act "No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit letters of credit; make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts ; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility." Article I, Section 10, CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA The Coinage Act of April 2, 1792 (1 Stat. 246) Mint established at the seat of government. Section I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of American in Congress assembled, and it is hereby enacted and declared, That a mint for the purpose of a national coinage be, and the same is established, to be situate and carried on at the seat of the government of the United States . . . The US Mint The place where people brought their gold and silver to m
