The Danbury Mint, is a division of MBI, Inc. that markets a variety of collectibles. Danbury Mint historically marketed high quality medals and ingots produced by others exclusively for them. The company also sold numerous other collectible offering including plates, bells, sculptures, etc. Danbury Mint is well known for their 1:24 scale die-cast vehicles, including a now discontinued James Bond's DB5.

Their licenses include: Boyds, Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola

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, John Deere

John Deere

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, Dept 56, Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss

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, General Motors

General Motors

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, Goebel, King Features, Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes

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, Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball

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, Mars, Inc., NFL, Gary Patterson

Gary Patterson

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, Peanuts

Peanuts

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, Pillsbury, Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley

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, Red Hat Society

Red Hat Society

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, The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company

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 and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.

History

The Danbury Mint was founded in Westport, Connecticut by Ralph Glendinning and Ted Stanley in 1969, as a subsidiary of Glendinning Companies. Their first product was a series of medals commemorating the Apollo 11

Apollo 11

In early 1969, Bill Anders accepted a job with the National Space Council effective in August 1969 and announced his retirement as an astronaut. At that point Ken Mattingly was moved from the support crew into parallel training with Anders as backup Command Module Pilot in case Apollo 11 was...

 moon landing.

The Danbury Mint has since gone on to capture the legacy of landmark events, products and people though collectible figurines, collector's plates, dolls, and die-cast cars. Those legacies include the inauguration of President Barack Obama, Princess Diana, Shirley Temple, corvettes, Hummel figurines, and Christmas gold ornaments.

Danbury's first sister division was formed in 1970 under the name Postal Commemorative Society, recently changed to PCS Stamps & Coins. In 1973, both divisions were incorporated as MBI. In 1975 Easton Press

Easton Press

Easton Press, a division of MBI Inc., based in Norwalk, Connecticut, is a publisher specializing in high-quality leather-bound books. In addition to canonical classics, poetry and art books, they publish a large library of science fiction and popular literature as well.Some of Easton Press's...

was formed as MBI's third division, and MBI was spun off from Glendinning Companies as a separate company.

According to former employees, the MBI name was created by reversing the letters in IBM and later applying a meaning to each letter. Every product the company produced should have "Meaning," "Beauty," & "Integrity."

External links

• Danbury Mint homepage
• Danbury Mint at Diecast Zone