- Branch mint
A branch mint is a satellite operation of (usually) a national mint.
United States
The original and main Mint of the
United States Mint , has been located in Philadelphia (P), since 1793. Its current facility, Philadelphia's fourth, opened in 1969.U.S. branch mints have been located at:*New Orleans (O), 1838-1909
*Dahlonega, Georgia, 1838-1861
*Charlotte, North Carolina, 1835] -1861
*San Francisco(S), 1854-present
*Carson City, Nevada(CC), 1870-1893
*Denver (D), 1906-present
*Manila, Philippines, 1920-1922 and 1925-1941
*West Point, New York (W), 1984-presentGreat Britain
The
Royal Mint of theUnited Kingdom is located atLlantrisant ,Wales . It is currently the only facility of the Royal Mint but has had branch mints in the past, located at:*
Ottawa ,Ontario ,Canada (now the main facility of theRoyal Canadian Mint )
*ThePerth Mint inWestern Australia , a branch mint from 1899 to 1970 (even thoughFederation of Australia took place in 1901
*TheSydney Mint , which closed in 1926
*TheMelbourne Mint
*ThePretoria Mint , inPretoria, South Africa
*The Bombay MintFrance
The [http://www.monnaiedeparis.com/ Monnaie de Paris] - The French Mint - is state owned industrial and commercial company (EPIC). The current French mint facility is in Paris. There have been numerous French mints in modern times (modern times are defined as the time since the French Revolution). These mints include cities outside of the traditional French borders as a result of the French Empire and other political events.
Canada
The
Royal Canadian Mint , based inOttawa , has one branch inWinnipeg, Manitoba . The Ottawa mint was itself a branch mint until the Royal Canadian Mint became independent of the British Royal Mint.There was also a branch mint at
Hull, Quebec , which was opened for a few years.witzerland
The current [http://www.swissmint.ch/en-homepage.homepage.html Swiss mint] is located in Bern (B). In the past, Swiss coins were manufactured in Bruxelles/Brussels (B.), Strasbourg (BB) and (AB) and Paris (A). French coins of the First French Empire were made in Geneva. Most of the Swiss Cantons were still producing their own coinage in 1848 when Switzerland re-constituted itself as a Confederation and, in 1850, pegged the newly adopted Swiss franc to the French franc. [ [http://www.swissmint.ch/en-swissmint.html Swissmint ] ]
References
External links
* [http://www.goldsovereigns.co.uk/perthmintaustralia.html Information about British branch mints] (from a private company's website)
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