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 France
4 Canada
5 Switzerland
6 References
7 External links

[edit] 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-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] France

The 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.

Paris (A)or (no letter) 1975-present
Metz (AA)1979-1800
Rouen (B)1796-1846; 1853-1857
Beaumont-le-Roger (B)1941-1973
Bruxelles/Brussels (B in a circle)- 1939
Strasbourg (BB)1797- 1832
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)

[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.

There was also a branch mint at Hull, Quebec, which was opened for a few years.

[edit] Switzerland

The current 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. In the past, most of the Swiss Cantons produced their own coinage until the mid-1800s when Switzerland re-constituted itself as a Confederation in 1848; adopted the Swiss Franc and; aligned its currency on the French franc in 1850.^[1]