This blog entry shows the latest revision (version 3.0) to the  Manufacturing Triad of the U.S. Mint® .  The primary intent is to show the mechanism to manufacture "special medals for U.S. Government agencies". Currently, I have identified four U.S. Government agencies that procured "table-type award medals". In essence, I created four new U.S. Mint® series. As a reminder, special medals for U.S. Government agencies required NO legislative approval.

As part of organizing and forming a never before documented U.S. Mint® medal series,  I performed first hand research using multiple original sources on multiple focused research topics. Note: The Bureau of the Mint and U.S. Mint® are used interchangeably in this blog entry.

On one particular research focus topic, I was tasked to locate the legislative act that authorized the minting of this never before documented U.S. Mint® medal series. The first step was to review a range of fiscal year documents published by the U.S. Mint®. The Annual Report of the Director of the United States Mint for fiscal years 1958, 1959, 1960, and 1962 were reviewed (these are the years that the never before documented U.S. Mint® medal series were struck).

Figure 1 depicts the original three manufacturing functions (shown in blue) taken from the 1962 Annual Report of the Director of the United States Mint to form my initial version of the  Manufacturing Triad of the U.S. Mint®.

Figure 2 depicts the mapping of multiple manufacturing functions to the newly named three manufacturing functions (shown in blue)  taken from the 1990 Annual Report of the Director of the United States Mint to form the final version of the  Manufacturing Triad of the U.S. Mint®.

And there you have it! I just showed you how I created the Manufacturing Triad of the U.S. Mint®. As you can see from Figure 1 and 2, it was remarkably easy to extract the Manufacturing Triad of the U.S. Mint® from the published text.

Figure 3 shows the Manufacturing Triad of the U.S. Mint® version 3.0 (emphasis on manufacturing function 3) and the four sGm series I created.

The term "Special medals for U.S. Government agencies" was simplified to the term "special Government medals" (sGms).

This is how I named my first  U.S. Mint® series: President of the United States (POTUS) special Government medal (sGm) series.

UPDATE 1

the POTUS sGm series can be seen at

click here -->  POTUS sGm website <-- click here

UPDATE 2

I also added an image of my   2017 ANA award (my first national level exhibit). Unpublished and copyrighted (related to my research on my 3rd book).

UPDATE 3

I added an working cover of my 3rd book (note the date of the E-Sylum article). Yes, I'm still working on it (and I don't see any competition on this subject matter).