List of mints
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Mints designed for the manufacturing of coins have been commonplace since coined currency was first development around 600 BC by the Lydian people of modern-day Turkey. The popularity of coins spread across the Mediterranean so that by 6th-century BC nearby regions of Athens, Aegina, Corinth and Persia had all developed their own coins.
Methods used at mints to produce coins have changed as technology has developed, with early coins either being cast using moulds to produce cast coins or struck between two dies to produce hammered coin. Around the middle of the 16th century machine-made milled coins were developed allowing coins of a higher quality to be made.
National currencies are generally minted by a country's central bank or on its behalf by an independent mint. For example, the coins of the New Zealand Dollar are minted jointly by the Royal Mint in the United Kingdom and the Royal Canadian Mint for the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.[1] Also national mints are sometimes privatised to become state-owned enterprises allowing them to pursue commercial interests such as producing commemorative coins, medals and different types of bullion.
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Today the United States Mint is largest mint manufacturer in the world, operating across six sites and producing as many as 28 billion coins in a single year.[2] Its largest site is the Philadelphia Mint which covers 650,000 square feet[3] and can produce 32 million coins per day.[4]
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The world's oldest continuously running mint is the Monnaie de Paris in France which was founded in AD 864 and is the world's 8th oldest company. The second is the British Royal Mint, founded in AD 886 and the 10th oldest.
Historic and defunct mints
Polity | Name | Year Started | Year Ended | Notes | Ref. |
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Melbourne Mint | 1872 | 1968 | Production moved to the Royal Australian Mint in Canberra | |
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Sydney Mint | 1854 | 1926 | Production moved to Melbourne & Perth Mints | |
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Hasegg Castle | 1748 | 1806 | ||
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National Mint of Bolivia | 1572 | 1953 | The currency of Bolivia is now minted by foreign mints | |
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Horndon mint | 1056 | |||
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Hong Kong Mint | 1866 | 1868 | ||
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PN Artha Yasa | 1965 | 1971 | Merged with state printer Pertjetakan Kebajoran to form Perum Peruri. | |
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Provincial mints of Iran | 1877 | Replaced by the Zarrabkhana | ||
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The Mint (Carlingford) | ||||
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Venice Mint | 1536 | 1797 | ||
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Manila Mint | 1861 | 1945 | Became an official branch of the US Mint in 1920 and was later destroyed following the liberation of the Philippines in World War II | |
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National Mint of Xuvia | 1812 | 1868 | ||
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Mints of Scotland | 1136 | 1709 | Following the Acts of Union 1707, the last mint in Edinburgh closed and minting was ceded to the Royal Mint | |
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Myntverket | AD 995 | 2008 | Sold to the Mint of Finland in 2008 | |
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Soho Mint | 1788 | 1848 | ||
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Carson City Mint | 1870 | 1893 | ||
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Charlotte Mint | 1835 | 1861 | ||
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Dahlonega Mint | 1838 | 1861 | ||
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The Dalles Mint | 1869 | 1869 | Partly constructed in 1869, but never completed | |
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Engelhard[citation needed] | 1868 | 1888 | Ceased production of bullion products | |
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New Orleans Mint | 1838 | 1909 |
References
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- ^ "About the United States Mint". United States Mint. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
- ^ "Employee Celebrates 50 Years at Philadelphia". United States Mint. 10 June 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
- ^ "United States Mint". ushistory.org. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
- ^ "Casa de Moneda". Argentina.gob.ar (in Spanish).
- ^ "History". Perth Mint. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- ^ "About the Mint". Royal Australian Mint. 5 January 2016. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- ^ "Our History". Austrian Mint. Archived from the original on 5 October 2018. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- ^ Belgium and Nassau; or, The continental tourist. Black And Armstrong. 1838. p. 41.
- ^ "Sobre a CMB" [About CMB]. Casa da Moeda do Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 29 October 2017.
- ^ "За нас" [About Us]. Bulgarian Mint (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 29 October 2017.
- ^ "Milestones of Mint Chile". cmoneda.cl. Archived from the original on 11 June 2013. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- ^ "History of Minting". Prague Mint. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
- ^ "1,150 Years of History". Monnaie de Paris. Archived from the original on 15 November 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
- ^ "Duties and activities - Anglais". IEOM. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
- ^ "Security Printing and Minting Organization". Wayback Machine. Archived from the original on 2017-04-12.
- ^ "Mint of Nigerian History". Wayback Machine. Archived from the original on 2011-03-04. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
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- ^ "About Us". Golden State Mint. Retrieved 2019-02-04.
- ^ "About MPM". www.monarchpreciousmetals.com. Retrieved 2019-02-05.
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