Mints of the World since 1500

On these pages we are posting an ongoing grafic and data inventory project which attempts to locate all mints that produced coins in the modern era, starting around 1500.  The listing is being developed with the colaboration of TICCIH (The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage).  This is an extraordinary task that requires the participation of a wide range of international contacts and volunteers. 

The current listing is principally of mints in Europe and the Americas. Most of these mints were using machinery to produce coinage before 1800, many in factory-like buildings.  We can assume that a greater degree of mechanization and higher production required more important, permanently assigned mint buildings.  Other cities only struck coins for a few years in small, often rented or temporary, artisan workshops, using small portable taschenwerk machines or hammers.

The first wave of mechanization in mints had its origins in Augsburg, Germany, around the mid to late 1500's.   The oldest,  largest,  most important factory-like mint still standing is the Royal Mill Mint in Segovia, built in 1583.  Spain ordered massive new mints to be built in its colonies, all using horse-driven laminating mills and screw-presses in 1730.  The mint buildings still standing in Venice (1755), Mexico (1734), Santiago de Chile (1744), and Potosi (1771) are massive structures designed to facilitate mechanized production using rolling mills and screw presses.  This technological wave, however, did not reach Asia, Africa or the Middle East, where coins continued to be produced by primitive methods.

The next wave of technology for mints had its origins in Birmingham, England, in the early to mid 1800's with a new series of steam-driven automatic machines being made available worldwide.  By the late 1880's, mints from China and India to Marruecos had finally been mechanized for the first time.  This mechanization required the construction of important new buildings which probably still remain, whereas the artisan workshops used for hammer-struck or cast coinage may have disappeared leaving little trace.  We are pending expert advice before expanding our list to include mints in these countries.  

Only mints for which we have graphic material will be posted online.  New mints will be added as volunteers send us information.  Don't hesitate to send us news of the mint in your area, as well as your ideas and suggestions.  info@segoviamint.org  

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LOCATION OF CITIES
     All cities are listed under the countries in which they are currently found, with their current name in the language of that country.  Other names in other languages for the same city are offered when available.  

For instance: the old Hungarian mint of Nagybanya is listed under Baia Mare, in Romania, though no Romanian coins were ever struck there.  We also offer the name of the city when the mint was active, in Hungarian and German as follows: (Nagybanya-H)   (Frauenbach-D)

-Cities in GREEN
     These mint buildings exist today.
-Cities in PINK
     These mint buildings have disapeared, but some remains exist.
-Cities in RED
     No trace of the mint building exists today, but we have
      photographed its approximate location.
   

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You can help by sending us the following information about any mint                               info@segoviamint.org         Any details which help to locate any mint not already on our list.      Photographs of the builidng, any remains, or location where it stood.      Plans of the Mint building or maps of its location.      Dates of the first and last coins struck.      Technology used: hammer, roller-die, taschenwerk, screw-press...      Current use of the building, and if it is open for visitors.

 

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Click on the countries for which we have mint city photos to go directly to those specific listings, then click on photo to see all images for that mint.  See other countries for names of cities where coins were struck and where mints may be found.  

Go to:   Austria
               Belarus
               Belgium
               Bolivia
               Brazil
               Colombia
               Chile
               Czech Rep.
               Denmark
               Finland
               France
               Germany
               Great Britain
               Greece
               Guatemala
               Hungary
               Italy
               Latvia
               Lithuania
               Luxemburg
               Mexico
               Monaco
               Netherlands
               Norway
               Panama
               Peru
               Poland
               Portugal
               Romania
               Russia
               Slovakia
               Spain
               Sweden
               Switzerland
               Ukraine
               United States of America

 

 

MM         AUSTRIA

Braunau am Inn    Graz
Hall in Tirol
Klagenfurt
Linz
Salzburg    Sankt Veit an der Glan    Wein (Becs-H) (Vienna)

 

BELARUS

Hrodna, Gardinas (Garten-D)

 

BELGIUM

Antwerpen    Brussels    Brugge    Cugnon    Liege (Lüttich-D)    Namur    Tournai

 

BOLIVIA

La Paz    La Plata (Sucre)    Oruro
Potosi

 

BRAZIL

Bahia    Cuiaba    Goias    Minas Gerais    Pernambuco    Rio de Janeiro    Sao Paulo

 

COLOMBIA

Cartegena    Medellin    Popayan    Santa Fe (Bogota)

 

CHILE

Santiago

 

MM         CZECH REP.

Brno (Brunn-D)    Budweis
Cesky Krumlov
Cheb (Eger-D)    Glatz
Jachymov      (Joachimsthal-D)
Kromeriz
Kutná Hora      (Kuttenberg-D)
Mikulov (Nikolsburg-D)    Olomouc (Olmütz-D)    Praha (Prag-D) (Prague)

 

 

DENMARK

Copenhagen    Elsinore    Frederiksborg    Helsinger    Lyngby

 

 

FINLAND

Helsinki

 

 

MM        FRANCE

Aix    Amiens    Angers    Arras    Bayonne    Besancon    Bordeaux    Bourges    Caen    Chalons-sur-Marne    Clermont-Ferrand    Dijon
Ensisheim
Grenoble    La Rochelle    Lille    Limoges    Lyon    Marseille    Metz    Montbeliard (Momplegard-d)    Montpellier    Morlass    Mulhouse (Mulhausen-d)    Nancy (Nanzig-d)    Nantes    Narbonne    Orleans    Paris
Pau
Perpignan    Poissy    Poitiers    Reims    Remiremont (Romarti-D)    Rennes    Riom    Rouen    Saint-Lo    Saint Palais    St. Malo    Stenay
Strasbourg      (Strassburg-D)
Thann (Thann-D)    Toulouse    Tours    Troyes

 

 

MM         GERMANY

Aachen    Aalen    Andreasberg    Allstedt    Altenkirchen    Altenburg    Altona    Altstrelitz - Stargard -Neustrelitz    Amberg    Anholt    Anklam    Annweiler am Trifels    Ansbach    Appenzell    Arenberg    Arnsberg    Arnstadt    Arolsen    Artern    Asseburg    Augsburg    Aurich    Badenweiler    Bad Mergentheim    Bamberg    Bartenstein    Bayersdorf    Bayreuth    Berleburg    Berlin    Bernburg    Bielefeld    Blumerode    Bocholt    Boizenburg    Bonn    Bornheim    Braunschweig     Bremen    Bruchsal    Burgel    Bushsweiler    Bückburg    Butzbach    Camburg    Catelnburg    Celle    Clausthal    Coburg    Coesfeld    Cosel    Crailsheim    Cramberg    Creussen    Dachsbach    Dagsburg    Darmstadt    Detmold    Deutz    Dierdorf    Domitz    Dornburg    Dorsten    Dortmund
Dresden
Drossen    Dulmen    Durlach    Dusseldorf    Edemissen    Einbeck    Eisenach    Eisenberg    Ellrich    Emmerich    Erfurt    Erlangen    Esens    Eutin    Frankfurt am Main    Franzburg
Freiberg
Freiburg      im Breisgau
Freiburg im Uechtland    Freudenstadt    Friedrichshafen (Buchhorn)    Friedberg
Frohnau
Fulda    Furth    Gadebusch    Gedern
Gelnhausen
Gesekee    Giessen    Gluckstadt    Goslar    Gotha    Grafenthal    Greussen    Groien    Grumbach    Grünthal    Guben    Gundelfingen
Günzburg
Gustrow    Halberstadt
Halle (Saale)
Hamburg    Hamm    Hanau    Hannover    Harzgerode
Heidelberg
Heinrichsstaadt    Helmstedt    Heidesheim    Hildburghausen    Hildesheim    Hochstadt    Hohensolms    Ichtershausen    Ilmenau    Isny    Jever    Judewein    Kahla    Kallmunz
Karlsruhe
Katharinenrieth    Kassel    Kemnath    Kiel    Kirchberg    Kleve    Klettenberg    Koblenz    Köln    Konigsberg    Konigsee    Konstanz
Köthen
Kranichfeld    Krossen    Kulmbach    Kyritz    Landau    Langenargen    Langenburg    Lauingen    Lauterberg    Lehesten    Leimbach    Leipzig    Leutenberg    Lich    Lindau    Lippoldsberg    Langenargen    Lübeck    Luckau    Lucka    Lüenburg    Lunen    Luneburg
Magdeburg
Mainz    Mannheim    Mansfeld    Marienehe    Marsberg    Meddersheim    Meiningen    Meisenheim    Memmingen    Meuselwitz
Minden
Mirow    Mittweida    Moritzburg    Mühlhausen (Thuringen)
Muldenhutten
Mulheim
Munich
Munsa    Münster    Neuburg am Inn    Neuenburg    Neuenstein    Neuhaus    Neumarkt    Neuwied    Nidda    Nieder-Weisel    Nienburg    Noblitz    Nordhausen    Northeim    Nordlingen    Nurnberg    Oberkirch    Oettingen    Ohringen    Oldenburg    Oldendorf    Ols    Ortenberg    Osnabruck    Osterode    Pirmasens    Polzig    Poppelsdorf    Poppenbüttel    Prenzlau    Quedlinburg    Querfurt    Ranstadt    Ratzeburg    Ravensburg    Recklinghausen    Regensburg    Regenstein    Reichenau    Reichenberg    Reitberg    Rendsborg    Rethwisch    Rineteln    Rheda    Rockenhausen    Roda    Rossla    Rostock    Roth    Rotenstein    Rudolstadt    Saalborn    Saalfeld    Sachswerfen    Schaffhausen    Schillingsfurst    Schleusingen    Schmolln    Schönau    Schongau (Munzstrasse)    Schwabach (Munzgasse)    Schwaan    Schweinfurt    Schwerin    Södel    Soest    Sondershausen    Stade    Stockau
Stolberg (Harz)
Steuenwald    Stralsund    Stromberg
Stuttgart
Tiengen    Tonning    Trier    Tubingen    Uberningen
Ulm
Untersteinbach    Veldenz    Voigtstedt    Waldeck    Waldenburg    Weidenbrück    Weilburg    Weissenfels    Weimar    Welbsleben    Werden    Weringerode    Werne    Wertheim    Windischleuba    Willstett    Wismar    Wolfenbuttel    Wolgast
Worms
Worth    Wismar    Wuppertal    Würzburg    Zellerfeld    Zerbst     Zweibrücken

 

GREAT BRITAIN

Aberystwyth    Birmingham (Kings Norton, Heaton)    Bristol    Chester    Edinburgh    Exeter    Holyrood    London    Oxford    Salisbury    Shrewsbury    Stirling    Truro    Weymouth    Worcester    York

 

GREECE

Athens

 

GUATEMALA

Antigua    Nueva Guatemala

 

 

MM         HUNGARY        (List of possible mint sites)

Budapest

 

MM         ITALY

Alessandria    Arquata    Ancona    Ascoli    Bozzolo    Beligiojoso    Belmonte
Bologna
Cagliari    Campi    Casale    Castigliione dei Gatti    Castigliione delle Stiviere    Cisterna    Compiano    Correggio    Corsica    Cuneo    Civitavecchia    Clitunno    Desana    Emilia    Fano    Fermo    Ferrara    Foligno
Florence
Gazzoldo    Genoa    Guastalla    Gorizia    Gubbio    Livorno    Loano
Lucca
Macerata    Matelica    Montalto    Maccagno
Mantova
Massa di Lungiano    Massa - Carrara    Messerano    Milan (Mailand-D)    Mirandola    Modena    Naples (Neapel-D)    Orbetello    Orezzo    Palermo    Pergola    Perugia    Parma    Piacenza    Piombino
Pisa
Porcia    Ravenna    Ronciglione    Rome    Reggio    Retegno    Ronco    Rovegno    San Severino    Spoleto    Sabbioneta    San Gregorio    San Martino    Savoy    Seborga    Solferino    Soragna    Terni    Tivoli    Tassarolo    Torriglia    Trent    Tresana    Turin     Urbino    Viterbo    Vasto
Venice
Ventimiglia    Vercelli    Veragagni

 

LATVIA

Jelgava (Mitau-D, Kurland)    Riga

 

LITHUANIA

Vilnius

 

LUXEMBURG

Luxemburg

 

MEXICO

Alamos    Campo Morado    Chihuahua    Cuencame    Culican    Durango    Guadalajara    Guanajuato    Guadalupe y Calvo    Hermosillo
Mexico
Monclova    Oxaca    Parral    Real de Catorce    Sombrerete    San Luis Potosi    Tlalpujahura    Valladolid    Zacatecas    Zongolica

 

MONACO

Monaco

 

NETHERLANDS

Amsterdam    Bolduque (Hertogenbosch)    Dordrecht    Groningen    Maastricht    Middleburg    Utrecht

 

NORWAY

Kongsberg

 

PANAMA

Panama

 

PERU

Arequipa    Ayacucho    Cuzco    Lima    Pasco

 

POLAND

Brzeg (Brieg-D)    Bydgoszcz (Bromberg-D)    Chojnow (Haynau-D)    Elbag (Elbing-D)    Gdansk (Danzig-D)    Glogau (Glogow-D)    Klodzko (Glatz-D)    Kostrzyn nad Odra (Kustrin-D)    Koszalin (Koslin-D)    Krakow (Krakau-D)    Legnica (Liegnitz-D)    Lobzenica (Lobsenz-D)    Nysa (Neisse-D)    Olkusz    Opole (Oppeln-D)    Olesnica (Oels-D)    Osowa Sien (Wschowa) (Fraustadt-D)    Poznan (Posen-D)    Raciborz (Ratibor-D)    Swidnica (Schweidnitz-D)    Szczecin (Stettin-D)    Torun (Thorn-D)    Ujazd (Ujazdow-D)    Warszawa (Warsaw)    Wolow (Wohlau-D)    Wroclaw (Breslau-D)    Zagan (Sagan-D)

 

PORTUGAL

Evora    Lisbon    Oporto

 

MM         ROMANIA

Abrud    Aiud (Nagyenyed-H)    Alba lulia (Gyulahervar-H) (Karlsburg-D, Wissenburg-D)

Baia Mare     (Nagybanya-H)      (Frauenbach-D)

Bistrita ( Besztercze-H) (Bistritz-D)    Brasov (Kronstadt-D)    Bucharest    Cluj-Napoca (Kolosvar-H) (Klausenburg-D)     Fagaras (Fogarasch-D)    Medias (Mediasch-D)    Orastie (Szasz Varos-H)    Oravita (Oravicabanya-H) (Orawitz-D)    Secia Mica    Sibiu (Szeben Varos-H) (Hermannstadt-D)    Sighisoara (Schassburg-D)    Slatina (Zalathna Banya-H) (Zlatna-D)

 

RUSSIA

Ekaterinburg    Izhora    Kaliningrad (Königsberg-d)    Kolpino    Kolpina    Kolyvan (Suzun)    Moskau    Saint Petersburg

 

 

MM        SLOVAKIA

Bratislava (Pozsony-H)(Pressburg-D)    Kosice (Kassa-H) (Kaschau-D)

Kremnica      (Kormoczbanya-H)      (Kremnitz-D)

Leopoldov (Leopoldstadt-D)    Presov (Preschau-D)    Smolnik (Szomolnok-H) (Schmollnitz-D)

 

MM         SPAIN        (All non-local mints post 1500 are located)

Barcelona
Burgos
Cadiz
Cordoba
Cuenca
Granada
Jubia
La Coruña
Linares
Madrid
Pamplona
Segovia
Sevilla
Toledo
Trujillo
Valencia
Valladolid
Zaragoza
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SWEDEN

Arboga    Avesta    Gothenburg    Kalmar    Kengis    Landskrone    Nykoping    Sala    Sater    Soderkoping    Stockholm    Vadstena

 

 

MM         SWITZERLAND

Bäch am Zürichsee    Basel

Bellinzona

Bern    Bonaduz    Chur    Freiburg    Geneva (Genf)    Haldenstein    Kirchhofen    Laufenburg    Luzern    Neuchatel (Nuenberg)    Pruntrut (Porrentruy)    St. Gallen (Sankt Gallen-D)    Schwyz    Sion (Sitten-D)    Solothurn    Uri    Zofingen    Zug    Zurich

 

 

UKRAINE

Munkatsch (Munkacs-H)    Lvov (Lemberg-D)

 

 

UNITED STATES   OF AMERICA

Charlotte, NC
Carson City, NV
Dahlonega, GA
Denver, CO
New Orleans, LA
Philadelphia, PA
San Francisco, CA
West Point, NY