Branch mint

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

1 United States
2 Great Britain
3 Canada
4 External links

[edit] United States

Branches of the United States Mint, located in Philadelphia, have been located at:

New Orleans, 1838-1909
Dahlonega, Georgia, 1838-1861
Charlotte, North Carolina, 1835-1861
San Francisco, 1854-present
Carson City, Nevada, 1870-1893
Denver, 1906-present
Manila, Philippines, 1920-1922 and 1925-1941
West Point, New York, 1984-present

[edit] Great Britain

The Royal Mint of the United Kingdom is located at Llantrisant, 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 the Royal Canadian Mint)
The Perth Mint in Western Australia, a branch mint from 1899 to 1970 (even though Federation of Australia took place in 1901
The Sydney Mint, which closed in 1926
The Melbourne Mint
The Pretoria Mint, in Pretoria, South Africa
The Bombay Mint

[edit] Canada

The Royal Canadian Mint, based in Ottawa, 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.