The Historian · Ava · Sydney
The Mint
Macquarie paid for a hospital in rum-trade rights. This is the wing that survived — bad money, good sandstone.
The 1816 south wing of Macquarie's 'Rum Hospital,' later Sydney's branch of the Royal Mint — the oldest public building on Macquarie Street.
— Ava, The Historian
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