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A branch mint is a satellite operation of (usually) a national mint
Mint (coin)

A mint is an industrial facility which manufacturing coins for currency.The history of mints correlates closely with the history of coins. One difference is that the history of the mint is normally related in a fashion that more closely ties to the political situation of an era....
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branch mints have been located at:



France
The - The French Mint - is state owned industrial and commercial company (EPIC).






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A branch mint is a satellite operation of (usually) a national mint
Mint (coin)

A mint is an industrial facility which manufacturing coins for currency.The history of mints correlates closely with the history of coins. One difference is that the history of the mint is normally related in a fashion that more closely ties to the political situation of an era....
.

United States


The original and main Mint of the United States Mint
United States Mint

The United States Mint primarily produces circulating currency for the United States to conduct its trade and commerce. The main Mint facility is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and branch mint are located in Denver, Colorado; San Francisco, California; and West Point, New York....
, has been located in Philadelphia
Philadelphia Mint

The Philadelphia Mint was created from the need to establish a national identity and the needs of commerce in the United States. This led the Founding Fathers of the United States to make an establishment of a continental national mint a main priority after the ratification of the Constitution of the United States....
 (P), since 1793. Its current facility, Philadelphia's fourth, opened in 1969. U.S. branch mints have been located at:

  • New Orleans
    New Orleans Mint

    The New Orleans Mint operated in New Orleans, Louisiana, Louisiana, as a branch Mint of the United States Mint from 1838 to 1861 and from 1879 to 1909....
     (O), 1838-1909
  • Dahlonega, Georgia
    Dahlonega Mint

    The Dahlonega Mint was a branch of the United States Mint in Dahlonega, Georiga. Coins produced at the Dahlonega Mint bear the "D" mintmark. That mintmark is used today by the Denver Mint, which opened many years after the Dahlonega Mint closed....
    , 1838-1861
  • Charlotte, North Carolina
    Charlotte Mint

    The Charlotte Mint was a branch of the United States Mint that came into existence on March 3, 1835 during the Carolina Gold Rush. The first gold mine in the United States was established in North Carolina at the Reed Gold Mine....
    , 1835-1861
  • San Francisco
    San Francisco Mint

    The San Francisco Mint is a branch mint of the United States Mint, and was opened in 1854 to serve the gold mines of the California Gold Rush. It quickly outgrew its first building and moved into a new one in 1874....
    (S), 1854-present
  • Carson City, Nevada
    Carson City Mint

    Carson City Mint was a branch mint of the United States Mint in Carson City, Nevada. Built at the peak of the silver boom, 50 issues of silver coins and 57 issues of gold coins minted here between 1870 and 1893 bore the "CC" mint mark....
    (CC), 1870-1893
  • Denver
    Denver Mint

    The Denver Mint is a branch of the United States Mint established in 1862 that is today operational and produces coins for circulation, as well as mint sets and commemorative coins....
     (D), 1906-present
  • Manila, Philippines
    Manila Mint

    The Manila Mint was a branch mint of the United States Mint, located in Manila, now the capital city of the Philippines. Since that country became a United States possession after the Spanish-American War, the United States began to produce coinage for the Philippines in 1903 at its San Francisco Mint and Philadelphia Mint mints....
    , 1920-1922 and 1925-1941
  • West Point, New York
    West Point Mint

    The West Point Mint Facility was erected in 1937, near the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York. Originally the West Point Bullion Depository, it gained official status as a branch mint of the United States Mint on March 31, 1988....
     (W), 1984-present


Great Britain


The Royal Mint
Royal Mint

The Royal Mint of the United Kingdom is the body permitted to manufacture, or mint , Coins of the pound sterling in the United Kingdom. The Mint originated over 1,100 years ago, but has functioned since 1975 as a Trading Fund, operating in much the same way as a government-owned company....
 of the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 is located at Llantrisant
Llantrisant

Llantrisant is a town in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taff, within the Historic counties of Wales of Glamorgan, Wales, lying on the River Ely and the River Clun, South Wales....
, Wales
Wales

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. It is currently the only facility of the Royal Mint but has had branch mints in the past, located at:

  • Ottawa
    Ottawa

    Ottawa is the Capital of Canada. The city has population of 812,000, the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population municipality in the country and second largest in Ontario....
    , Ontario
    Ontario

    Ontario is a Provinces and territories of Canada located in the Central Canada part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area....
    , Canada
    Canada

    Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
     (now the main facility of the Royal Canadian Mint
    Royal Canadian Mint

    The Royal Canadian Mint produces all of Canada's circulation coins, and manufactures circulation coins on behalf of other nations. The mint also designs and manufactures: collector coins; gold, silver, palladium, and platinum bullion coins; customized medals, token s, trade dollar watches, and, for a brief time, high end jewellery featurin...
    )
  • The Perth Mint
    Perth Mint

    The Perth Mint is Australia's oldest operating Mint . After the foundation stone was laid in 1896 by Sir John Forrest, the Mint opened on June 20 1899 as a branch of the Royal Mint in London to refine gold and manufacture gold sovereigns and half sovereigns to be used as currency in the colony....
     in Western Australia
    Western Australia

    Western Australia is a States and territories of Australia occupying the entire western third of the Australia . The nation's largest state and the second largest subnational entity in the world, it has 2.1 million inhabitants , 85% of whom live in the south-west corner of the state....
    , a branch mint from 1899 to 1970 (even though Federation of Australia
    Federation of Australia

    The federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate United Kingdom self-governing colony of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia formed a federation....
     took place in 1901
  • The Sydney Mint
    Sydney Mint

    The Sydney Mint in Sydney, Australia, is the oldest public building in Australia. Built between 1811 and 1816 as the southern wing of the Sydney Hospital, it was then known as the Rum Hospital....
    , which closed in 1926
  • The Melbourne Mint
    Melbourne Mint

    The Melbourne Mint, in Melbourne, Australia, was a branch mint of the British Royal Mint. Until 1916 it minted only gold sovereigns, and all Australian coins between 1927 and 1967....
  • The Pretoria Mint, in Pretoria, South Africa
  • The Bombay Mint


France


The - 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.
  • Paris (A)or (no letter) 1795-present
  • Metz (AA)1797-1800
  • Rouen (B)1796-1846; 1853-1857
  • Beaumont-le-Roger (B)1941-1973
  • Bruxelles/Brussels (B in a circle)- 1939
  • Strasbourg (BB)1797-1870
  • Castelsarrasin (C)1914; 1943-1946
  • Genova (CL) 1813-1814 (First Empire)
  • Lyon (D)1796-1840; 1848-1858
  • Genève/Geneva (G) (Switzerland) 1800-1805 (First Empire)
  • La Rochelle (H)1803-1835
  • Limoges (I)1797-1835
  • Bordeaux (K)1797-1803
  • Bayonne (L)1798-1835
  • Toulouse (M)1803-1836
  • Marseille (M/A)1801-1809
  • Perpignan (Q)1797-1835
  • Orléans (R)1797
  • Nantes (T)1797-1820; 1826-1835
  • Lille (W)1798 1846; 1853-1857
  • Ütrecht (FISH)(Netherlands)1812-1813 (First Empire)
  • Turin/Torino (U)(Italy)1803-1813 (First Empire)
  • Rome (Crown/R)(Italy) 1812-1813 (First Empire)
  • London (R)(England)1815 (antecedent to the Restoration)
  • Philadelphia (USA) 1944 (result of the German occupation of France)


    • Canada


    The Royal Canadian Mint
    Royal Canadian Mint

    The Royal Canadian Mint produces all of Canada's circulation coins, and manufactures circulation coins on behalf of other nations. The mint also designs and manufactures: collector coins; gold, silver, palladium, and platinum bullion coins; customized medals, token s, trade dollar watches, and, for a brief time, high end jewellery featurin...
    , based in Ottawa
    Ottawa

    Ottawa is the Capital of Canada. The city has population of 812,000, the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population municipality in the country and second largest in Ontario....
    , has one branch in Winnipeg, 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
    Hull, Quebec

    Hull is the central and oldest part of the city of Gatineau, Quebec, Quebec, Canada. It is located on the west bank of the Gatineau River and the north shore of the Ottawa River, directly opposite Ottawa....
    , which was opened for a few years.

    Switzerland

    The current 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.

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