Company History
Originally founded in 1835 under the name of the
Z. Bisbee Co. and known today as Osborne Coinage Co., it is
America's oldest private mint. In 1943 the mint was acquired by
Clifford Stegman Sr. and two partners as Osborne Coinage
Company. Today, it is operated by Thomas Stegman and his sons
Jeffrey and Todd.
Osborne holds numerous distinctions. It minted the 1860
presidential campaign medals for Abraham Lincoln's successful
campaign, and for eight other presidential candidates. During
World War II, Osborne was called upon by the U.S. Government to
mint 5 billion food ration tokens, causing production to reach
80 million tokens a day. Osborne also developed and produced
special script medium-of-exchange tokens for thousands of coal
mines with a non-counterfeit guarantee. Additionally, every
year, Osborne mints millions of doubloons for the Mardi Gras in
New Orleans. And finally, Osborne has cumulatively minted more
transportation tokens than any other private mint, including the
100 million tokens used by the New York subway system.
In 1995, Osborne entered the casino gaming market. Since
then, Osborne has produced tokens for over 50 casinos, has
become licensed by most gaming boards, and completed a "Secure
Area" plant expansion specifically for gaming tokens. In 1996,
Osborne acquired the exclusive rights to produce the patented
X-Mark optically encoded tokens in the North American gaming
and transportation markets with the belief that the X-Mark
technology and its rigid standards of design will finally
provided the long awaited, cost effective, and reliable
solution addressing the needs for a higher security token.
Commitments made for timely shipments of better quality products
are assured by the infrastructure we have put in place to
fulfill those commitments, and is fundamentally what sets us
apart from other mints.
Company Highlights
"Secured Area" per gaming industry standards for processing
casino token orders. Three walk-in vaults for secure storage of
minting dies. Development of game specific security alloys.
Production of multi-metal security tokens. Exclusively
licensed to produce X-Mark optically encoded tokens.
Re-order metallurgical matching ensures new tokens match tokens
already in play. In-house blanking from raw strip material to
ensure tight dimensional tolerances. In-line sample inspection
ensures conformance to metallurgical, dimensional, and optical
reflectivity specifications. High speed Schuler and HME presses
provide a capacity of 2,700 coins per minute. We also perform
high volume subcontract manufacturing for other well known
mints.
Company Service
The Osborne Coinage Company is committed to providing the
highest quality tokens and customer satisfaction in the
industry. The plant, equipment, processes, procedures, and
personnel we have put in place have been specifically tailored
to meeting that commitment. Osborne is known for its quick
response capability and for tokens with quality and consistency
second to none in the industry. This is what fundamentally sets
us apart from other mints. Come visit our company web site at
http://www.osbornecoin.com.
The Osborne Team
| Thomas Stegman.... |
President |
| Jeffery Stegman...... |
V.P. Sales & Marketing |
| Todd Stegman....... |
V.P. Operations |
| David Blumenfeld... |
Dir. Sales & Marketing |
| Joe Saylor:............ |
Eastern Sales Manager, Casinos |
| Art Olita:............... |
Western Sales Manager, Casinos |
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