List of mints

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European Medieval mint

Mints designed for the manufacture of coins have been commonplace since coined currency was first developed around 600 BC by the Lydian people of modern-day Turkey. The popularity of coins spread across the Mediterranean so that by the 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 being 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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Perth Mint, Australia

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] (6 hectares) and can produce 32 million coins per day.[4]

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Royal Canadian Mint, Canada
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Casa de Moneda de Colombia
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Monnaie de Paris, France
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Staatliche Münze Berlin, Germany
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Calcutta Mint, India
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Japan Mint
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Royal Dutch Mint
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Mennica Polska S.A., Poland
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Saint Petersburg Mint, Russia
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Kremnica Mint, Slovakia
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Royal Mint of Spain
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Royal Mint, United Kingdom
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Philadelphia Mint, United States

Currently operating mints

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.

Polity Name Year
established 		Ownership Owner Ref.
Template:Country data Argentina Casa de Moneda de la Republica Argentina 1875 State-owned [5]
Template:Country data Australia Perth Mint 1899 State-owned Government of Western Australia [6]
Template:Country data Australia Royal Australian Mint 1965 State-owned The Commonwealth of Australia [7]
Template:Country data Austria Austrian Mint 1194 State-owned National Bank of Austria [8]
Template:Country data Belgium Royal Belgian Mint 1291 [9]
Template:Country data Brazil Casa da Moeda do Brasil 1694 State-owned [10]
Template:Country data Bulgaria Bulgarian Mint 1952 State-owned [11]
Template:Country data Canada Royal Canadian Mint 1908 State-owned
Template:Country data Chile Template:Ill 1743 [12]
Template:Country data China China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation 1949 State-owned
Template:Country data Colombia Fábrica de Moneda 1982 State-owned Bank of the Republic [13]
Template:Country data Costa Rica Central Bank of Costa Rica 1936
Template:Country data Croatia Croatian Mint 1993 State-owned Croatian National Bank
Template:Country data Cyprus Central Bank of Cyprus 1963 State-owned
Template:Country data Czech Republic Czech Mint 1993 Private Change ownership in 2009
Template:Country data Czech Republic Prague Mint 2011 Private [14]
Template:Country data Denmark Royal Danish Mint 1739 Danmarks Nationalbank
Template:Country data Egypt Central Bank of Egypt 1961
Template:Country data Fiji Reserve Bank of Fiji 1984 State-owned
Template:Country data Finland Mint of Finland 1860
Template:Country data France Monnaie de Paris 864 [15]
Template:Flagicon Overseas France Institut d'émission d'Outre-Mer 1966 [16]
Template:Country data Germany Staatliche Münzen Baden-Württemberg 1998
Template:Country data Germany Bavarian Central Mint 1158
Template:Country data Germany Staatliche Münze Berlin
Template:Country data Germany Hamburgische Münze 834
Template:Country data Greece Bank of Greece 1927
Template:Country data Guatemala Casa de Moneda de Guatemala 1733
Template:Country data Hungary Hungarian Mint 1001 or

1328

Template:Country data Iceland Central Bank of Iceland 1961 State-owned
Template:Country data Iran Security Printing and Minting Organization 1877 State-owned Central Bank of Iran [17]
Template:Country data Iraq Central Bank of Iraq 1953
Template:Country data India India Government Mint
Template:Country data Indonesia Perum Peruri 1971 State-owned Government of Indonesia
Template:Country data Ireland Currency Centre 1978
Template:Country data Italy Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato 1928
Template:Country data Japan Japan Mint 1871
Template:Country data Jordan Central Bank of Jordan 1964
Template:Country data Lesotho Central Bank of Lesotho 1978
Template:Country data Lithuania Lithuanian Mint 1990
Template:Country data Malaysia Royal Mint of Malaysia 2000
Template:Country data Mexico Mexican Mint 1535
Template:Flagcountry Royal Dutch Mint 1567
Template:Flagcountry New Zealand Mint 1967 Private
Template:Flagcountry Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company Limited 1963 Federal government of Nigeria [18]
Template:Flagcountry Royal Norwegian Mint 1686 Mint of Finland 50%
Samlerhuset Group 50%
Template:Flagcountry Pakistan Mint 1942
Template:Flagcountry Casa Nacional de Moneda 1565 [19]
Template:Flagcountry Mennica Polska S.A. 1766
Template:Flagcountry Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas 1993
Template:Flagcountry Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda 13th century [20]
Template:Flagcountry Monetăria Statului 1870 State-owned National Bank of Romania
Template:Flagcountry Moscow Mint 1942 State-owned Government of Russia
Template:Flagcountry Saint Petersburg Mint 1724 State-owned Government of Russia
Template:Flagcountry The Institute for Manufacturing Banknotes and Coins 1929 National Bank of Serbia [21]
Template:Flagcountry Bank of Sierra Leone 1963 State-owned
Template:Flagcountry Singapore Mint 1968 State-owned
Template:Country data Slovakia Kremnica Mint 1328 State-owned
Template:Flagcountry South African Mint 1890 South African Reserve Bank
Template:Flagcountry Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation 1951 State-owned Bank of Korea
Template:Country data Spain Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre (Spanish Royal Mint) 1893
Template:Country data Switzerland Swissmint 1848 [22]
Template:Country data Switzerland Pamp SA 1977
Template:Country data Taiwan Central Mint 1920 State-owned Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
Template:Country data Thailand Royal Thai Mint 1860
Template:Country data Transnistria Transnistrian Republican Bank 1992 State-owned
Template:Country data Turkey Turkish State Mint 1467 [23]
Template:Country data Ukraine National Bank of Ukraine 1998 [24]
Template:Country data United Kingdom Royal Mint 886 State-owned HM Treasury
Template:Country data United Kingdom Birmingham Mint 1850 Private
Template:Country data United Kingdom The Commonwealth Mint 2005 Private [25]
Template:Country data United Kingdom Tower Mint 1976 Private [26]
Template:Country data United States Asahi Refining Private [27]
Template:Country data United States Golden State Mint 1974 Private [28]
Template:Country data United States Mason Mint 2015 Private [29]
Template:Country data United States Monarch Precious Metals 2008 Private [30]
Template:Country data United States The Ohio Mint 2021 Private [31]
Template:Country data United States Regency Mint 1999 Private [32]
Template:Country data United States Scottsdale Mint 2008 Private [33]
Template:Country data United States Sunshine Minting 1979 Private
Template:Country data United States SilverTowne Mint 1973 Private [34]
Template:Country data United States United States Mint 1792 State-owned United States Department of the Treasury [35]
Template:Country data Vatican City Zecca State-owned
Template:Country data Zimbabwe Zimbabwean Mint 2001

Historic and defunct mints

Polity Name Year
started 		Year
ended 		Notes Ref.
Template:Country data Australia Melbourne Mint 1872 1968 Production moved to the Royal Australian Mint in Canberra
Template:Country data Australia Sydney Mint 1854 1926 Production moved to Melbourne & Perth Mints
Template:Country data Archduchy of Austria Hasegg Castle 1748 1806
Template:Country data Bolivia National Mint of Bolivia 1572 1953 The currency of Bolivia is now minted by foreign mints
Template:Country data Chile La Moneda Palace 1814 1929 Now the residence of the President of Chile, production moved to the Casa de Moneda de Chile.
Template:Country data Colombia Casa de Moneda 1620 1987 Now a museum, production moved to the Fábrica de Moneda in Ibagué.
Template:Country data Kingdom of England Horndon mint 1056
Template:Country data British Hong Kong Hong Kong Mint 1866 1868
Template:Country data Indonesia PN Artha Yasa 1965 1971 Merged with state printer Pertjetakan Kebajoran to form Perum Peruri.
Template:Country data Qajar Iran Provincial mints of Iran 1877 Replaced by the Zarab-khane

Zarrabkhana

Template:Country data Lordship of Ireland The Mint (Carlingford)
Template:Country data Philippines 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
Template:Country data Spain National Mint of Xuvia 1812 1868
Template:Country data Kingdom of Scotland 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
Template:Country data Sweden Myntverket AD 995 2008 Sold to the Mint of Finland in 2008
Template:Country data United Kingdom Pobjoy Mint 1965 2023
Template:Country data United Kingdom Soho Mint 1788 1848
Template:Country data United States Carson City Mint 1870 1893
Template:Country data United States Charlotte Mint 1835 1861
Template:Country data United States Dahlonega Mint 1838 1861
Template:Country data United States The Dalles Mint 1869 1869 Partly constructed in 1869, but never completed
Template:Country data United States EngelhardScript error: No such module "Unsubst". 1868 1888 Ceased production of bullion products
Template:Country data United States New Orleans Mint 1838 1909
Template:Country data Republic of Venice Venice Mint 1536 1797

References

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External links

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