Absolutely five out of five stars. A free tour, friendly employees, an amazing story, and am museum like appearance. This is a historic building in Denver, and the interior is probably three stories tall. So appears as if the Mette has built an internal second story that takes visitors through all of the production areas. It is simply quite amazing. They have coins, but the amount of items of a value that they have an addition to that is quite astounding. They have some of the original hand presses, scales, one of the original calculators ever built, and some of the original desks and books that were used for the accounting of this when it first open. Very tight security as you would expect for a building that makes money and stores $80 billion worth of US gold. The tour is conducted by members of the public affairs department escorted by US treasury police, so don’t even think tour guides. Instead, think historians who love to share their stories, walking around and visiting with you. I went on a cold winter day with my daughter. We both had a good time. Because of the weather here, be prepared to stand outside in a pre-security line for about 20 minutes. Check the list of prohibited/allowed items before you go. Even things like small purses are not allowed. So we bought my daughters small purse not knowing this when we get online at exactly the time we are supposed to be there. I asked the treasury police officer if I had time to run that back to my car so we didn’t miss our tour. I was again met by kindness With him telling me to take my time and that I was not going to miss anything. Highly recommend, especially for people who live in town, and I’ve never been there.

Jan 9, 2024, 4:13 AM

It was my first time ever visiting a United States Mint. I will be back one day to do a tour! I did visit the gift shop which was very cool. I highly recommend visiting for any coin and history lovers.

Mar 7, 2024, 9:19 AM

Interesting and informative 45 min tour ! Michael had all the dad jokes and kept it fun! Get to see the coin making process. Tickets sold (for free) daily and sells out early. However, they never checked our tickets so… might be able to just sneak into the tour if sold out. The gift shop is really cool with lots of uncirculated and unique coins to buy ! No photography inside allowed.

Oct 27, 2023, 8:07 AM