OUR PUBLICATIONS
The publications of FRIENDS OF THE SEGOVIA MINT can be purchased directly from the Association, for mailing to addresses in Spain. Please inquire for shipment to other countries. For more information click this link.
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ROYAL FRAUD. Phillip II's Monetary Adventures at the Segovia Mint.
Latest publication of the Association, released in June of 2019. Documented historical novel about how Phillip II obtained advanced German technology to build his Mint in Segovia, Spain. Unpublished secrets are revealed about the King's fraud at the Mint, with repercussions which lasted 50 years. For more information click this link.
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HOW TO BECOME A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATION
Founded in 1993 to promote the restoration of the Segovia Mint, which was in ruins, the FRIENDS OF THE SEGOVIA MINT ASSOCIATION currently has its own editorial program with international projection. Members receive our publications free of charge, and can visit national Museums in Spain, free of charge, thanks to an agreement with HISPANIA NOSTRA, of which the Association is a member. To obtain a membership application click this link.
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SPECIAL REPORT
BY THE ASSOCIATION
CRITIQUE OF THE
SEGOVIA MINT RESTORATION
One year after the
completion of the restoration work on the Segovia Mint, the
Association has prepared this special report on certain
aspects which we believe are not acceptable according to
proper scientific and technical critera, and thus should be
eventually modified when time and money permit.
Special
report in .pdf
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Special report of May 18, 2012. |
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VISIT THE SEGOVIA MINT:
THE MINT IS NOW FULLY RESTORED !
Information about
guided tours of the Segovia Mint building, and a large
selection of the latest photos of the reconstructed Mint.
Please be advised however, that the "Mint Museum of
Technology" still needs to be funded and created, and
that visitors see only empty buildings and the patios.
Section: VISIT THE MINT
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Fin de la obra de
rehabilitación.
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VIDEOS OF THE
RESTORED SEGOVIA MINT
Videos of the official
visit to the Royal Segovia Mint after the restoration of the
Industrial Heritage site. Filmed by Javier López Alarma
[Segovia al Día], posted on YouTube.
INAUGURATION
VIDEO
LINKS PAGE
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Videos of the restored Segovia
Mint.
info@segoviamint.org
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GLENN MURRAY RECEIVES
THE GRAND PRIZE
EUROPA NOSTRA AWARD
(Royal Palace of El Pardo)
25 November 2010
The
President and Founder of the Association, Dr. Glenn Murray, has
received the Grand Europa Nostra prize, handed to him by the
Queen of Spain, H.M. Doña Sofia, in the celebration held by
HISPANIA NOSTRA and the Royal House for the award winners of
2009 ahd 2010.
The Segovians invited and present handed the Queen an
artistically cut coin, donated by the Association in the name
of all segovians. The coin, a commemorative of the Royal
Family, struck in 1990, was specially cut by our member and
world expert in this rare art: Geovanny
Castañeda. The coin, from the Glenn Murray collection,
had been used for years by the Association to show people the
size and weight of the 50 real cincuentin pieces. It has
passed through the hands of thousands of Segovians on the
guided Mint visits which we offered for many years.
[click
photos to enlarge]
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Murray receives the award from the
Queen.

EUROPA NOSTRA award winners 2009
and 2010, with the Queen.

Specially cut coin which the
Association
gave to the Queen.
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GLENN MURRAY RECEIVES
THE GRAND PRIZE
EUROPA NOSTRA AWARD
(Taormina, Sicily)
5 junio 2009
The President
and Founder of the Association, Dr. Glenn Murray, recieved
three awards during the month of June 2009:
Grand
Prize winner of the "EUROPEAN
UNION PRIZE FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE / EUROPA NOSTRA AWARD"
2009.
Winner of the V Peñalosa
Medal "MEDALLA
PEÑALOSA",
for the defense of the Cultural-Artistic Heritage of Segovia.
Winner of the "SEGOVIAN
OF THE YEAR" 2009 award.
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Murray receives the Grand Prize of
10.000 euros from Her Royal Highness
the Infanta Doña Pilar de Borbón,
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PURCHASE OUR COINS
The Association has
struck many varieties of coins with our custom designed dies:
10 obverse and 3 reverse dies. To see these coins and
print an order form, follow this link:
BUY
COINS
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Buy a coining die of your own
design and we will take our hammer-press and the Segovia Mint
to your inaugurations, fiestas and other special events.
info@segoviamint.org
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VIDEOS ABOUT
THE SEGOVIA MINT
In
this new page, we offer direct links to videos related to
the Segovia Mint on YouTube
VIDEO LINKS PAGE
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PHOTOS OF THE RESTORATION WORK AT THE SEGOVIA MINT
We have a
large selection of photos of the restoration project carried
out at the Segovia Mint from February 2007 to May of
2011. The construction work went well and the results
are superb. We have been spearheading every step of the
effort for over 18 years and are extremely pleased to see that
our dreams and plans are finally coming true. See all
our photos in: RESTORATION
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New
photos January 2010
New
DELAY:
work will continue at least until
31
December 2010
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the COINING TECHNOLOGY HERITAGE project
New
project led by the Friends of the Segovia Mint Association and
the Landesmuseum
für Technik und Arbeit in Mannhein, Germany, for the
study and documentation of coining machines, tools and
processes of the 16, 17 and 18th centuries.
C.T.H.
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NEW JEWELERY PRODUCTS CREATED FROM OUR COINS
With
these handcrafted cut-out versions of our coins, we hope to
show one more product that could be made and sold in the
workshops of the future Segovia Mint Museum.
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LAUNCHING OF OUR NEW SAN FRUTOS DIE, with latent image
The
latest die by our member engraver, Juan Jose Sanchez Castaño.
These new pieces will be struck during the San Frutos
festivities, Saturday, October 24, at the door to the
Cathedral, just below the statue of San Frutos. Sunday
October 25, we offer a guided tour of the Eresma River along
side the mint building.
SAN FRUTOS PROGRAM
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A "latent
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NEW BROCHURE ABOUT THE MINT
Thanks to
the continued support of the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND
INDUSTRY OF SEGOVIA, the Association has been able to
publish a new brochure about the Mint, in which we show our
support towards the Mint Restoration as the "Flagship
Project" of the candidature of Segovia to be the European
Capital of Culture in 2016.
BROCHURE IN .pdf
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THE ASSOCIATION REQUESTS THE "EUROPEAN HERITAGE
SEAL"
FOR THE SEGOVIA MINT
On July
13, 2009, the Association officially requested this new
recognition for the the Segovia Mint. The "European
Heritage Seal" is a new award scheme established in
2007 by the European Union for the purpose of spotlighting
monuments and natural spaces that have played an essential
role in the history of Europe.
(read more).
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WORLD MINTS INVENTORY
The Association is
spearheading, with TICCIH International, a project to locate world mints which produced
coins in the modern era, from 1500.
WORLD MINTS INVENTORY
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MAJOR BOOK DONATION TO OUR LIBRARY
Member Javier Verdejo has donated a
collection of 392 coin auction catalogs dating from the early
70s through 2009 to the library of the Association. This
is his third major dotantion of books and we now have catalogs
from virtually every important auction which has taken place
over the past 40 years. We invite members to continue
expanding our library.
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THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OF SEGOVIA presents a new
book by Dr. Glenn Murray
The book explains the
scientific reasoning behind the proposal of the Chamber of
Commerce that the Royal Mint of Segovia be recognized as the
"Oldest, most advanced and complete industrial
manufacturing plant in the world" and as such, be
declared a "Heritage of Mankind" site. The Association is pleased to be able to offer a FREE pdf of the book by clicking on this link. |
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NEW COIN LAUNCHED ON "MINT DAY"
The Association has
launched coins struck with our new reverse die during the
celebration of the 2nd anniversary of "Mint Day",
February 14, 2009. The new die was designed by our
engraver and member Juan Jose Sanchez, and carries the date
2009. See all of our coins in: ASSOCIATION
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Buy a coining die of your own
design and we will take our hammer-press and the Segovia Mint
to your inaugurations, fiestas and other special events.
info@segoviamint.org
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THE HISTORY OF THE MINT IN A COMIC
You can learn the
history of the Segovia Mint in a fun and easy way through this
comic, with illustrations by the famous Segovian humorist and
painter, Jose Orcajo, and texts by historian Glenn Murray.
SEE
COMIC ON FACEBOOK
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OUR
SECTIONS
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Friends of the Segovia Mint was established on November 5, 1993 to promote the restoration of the famous mint in Segovia, 53 miles from Madrid,
Spain. In this section we offer photos of our
headquarters on the Plaza de la Merced, in Segovia, as well as
photos of all the coins we have struck on our hammer press.
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The Segovia Mint has a fascinating history. It was built in 1583 by Juan de Herrera, Spain's most famous architect of all time, and equipped with the most modern German
waterwheel-driven minting technology. Today, the site is considered to be the oldest industrial building still standing in Spain and one of the oldest remaining in the
world. (Translation in Esperanto)
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A variety of gold, silver, and copper coins and medal were produced at the Segovia mill mint from 1586 up until 1868, when it was closed and all minting activities were finally consolidated in Madrid.
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The Royal Mill Mint of Segovia was one of the first examples of a truly
complex, mechanized industrial manufacturing plant in the history of
mankind. Today, the Segovia Mint building is considered to be the oldest original example in the
world, still standing, of a structure specifically designed as a mechanized industrial manufacturing
plant. In this section, we examine the development of minting technology and its relation to the Segovia
Mint. (This page takes a moment to open).
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The idea to save the historic Segovia Mint has slowly taken
shape over the past 40 years. In this section, we show photos of the
restoration project which began on February 14, 2007 and
finished on May 19, 2011, three days before municipal elections.
Here you can see photos of the different stages of work on the Mint.
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Here you can find our bibliography listing all publications about the Segovia Mint
and related subjects.
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In this section we publish articles written specifically for the FRIENDS OF THE SEGOVIA MINT
website. We will attempt to publish several articles a year and invite submissions from all interested
contributors.
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1.
The Effects of the Great Potosi Mint Scandal in Spain.
2. The Royal Mil Mint of Segovia: a Hydraulic
Coining Factory.
3. Auction of the Madrid, Seville, Segovia and
Jubia Mints (1863-1883).
4. El Vellon de Molino y la Mecanizacion a la
Segoviana de las Cecas Castellanas.
5. Los Cincuentines de la Coleccion Marques de
Solanes.
6. The Hall Mint in Tyrol during the 15th and
16th Century and its relation to Spain.
7. King Philip II: The Missing Assayer
Mark on his Coins from the Segovia Mint.
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Now you can use our powerful search engine to consult over 6,000 files
in our data base of historic documents. Our team has worked
daily in the General Archive of Simancas (foto) for over 10 years in
order to compile these documents on the Segovia Mint, all other
Spanish Mints and Monetary Policy of the 15th through 18th
centuries.
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Information about guided tours of the Segovia
Mint building, and a large selection of the latest photos of the
reconstructed Mint. Please be advised however, that the "Mint
Museum of Technology" still needs to be funded and created, and
that visitors see only empty buildings and the patios.
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The city of Segovia, declared "Heritage of Mankind" by UNESCO in 1985,
is one of Spain's most popular tourist destinations. It
is just under one hour by car from Madrid and its
international airport, and only 25 minutes by the high speed
bullet train.
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A. Segovia
Mint |
This section contains links to other numismatic sites, official government and private mints from around the
world, and links to information about Segovia.
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WORLD MINTS INVENTORY
The Association is
spearheading a project to locate world mints which produced
coins in the modern era, from 1500.
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In this section we offer an extensive list of press clippings
about the Segovia Mint and the Association ranging from the most
recent news items to the oldest.
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The Friends of the Segovia Mint Association participated in a project of the European Commission's External Interregional Cooperation
Projects, Ecos-Ouverture Programme, titled: "EuroMint - Medieval and Early Modern European Mints
Itinerary".
The project
which lasted from 2000 to 2002 was headed up by a team representing the historic Oporto Mint in Portugal, with participation of two other principal
groups, one representing the Segovia Mint in Spain, and the other the old Kutná Hora Mint in the Chech
Republic. The project aims at creating an itinerary of historic European
Mints, among other aspects which are explained in detail on the Project's web site.
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THE
EUROMINT
WEBSITE HAS BEEN UNEXPECTEDLY TAKEN OFF LINE BY SEGOVIA
CITY HALL |