Mints

Connected Sites: 19

Definition
A mint is an industrial facility which manufactures coins for currency.

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Connected Sites

  • St. Petersburg
    Inscribed: 1990
    4.19
    270
    9
    The Peter and Paul fortress: "Other structures inside the fortress include the still functioning mint building (constructed to Antonia Porta's designs under Emperor Paul)"
  • Medina Azahara
    Inscribed: 2018
    2.80
    157
    10
    the city included ceremonial reception halls, mosques, administrative and government offices, gardens, a mint, workshops, barracks, residences and baths (wiki)
  • Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
    Inscribed: 1997
    3.01
    196
    11
  • Rome
    Rome
    Holy See, Italy
    Inscribed: 1980
    4.58
    670
    13
    The smallest issuing mint in the world belongs to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, in the City of Rome.
    See www.guinnessworldrecords.com
  • Classical Weimar
    Inscribed: 1998
    3.00
    231
    10
    Schiller's House incorporates an old mint
  • Kutna Hora
    Kutna Hora
    Czechia
    Inscribed: 1995
    3.34
    259
    14
    The Italian Court held the Royal Mint to produce the Prague groschen, which was the basis for the coinage reform of King Wenceslaw II (1300)
  • Sardis and the Lydian Tumuli of Bin Tepe
    Inscribed: 2025
    2.90
    23
    3
    Sardis is considered to be the birthplace of modern currency. 650 BCE the Lydians started to mint gold and silver coins.The minting tradition lasted until the reign of Roman emperor Gallenius (253-268).
  • Zacatecas
    Inscribed: 1993
    3.03
    62
    4
    The apogee of silver production in Zacatecas was in the 16th and 17th centuries, but then it was overtaken by Guanajuato, although it retained an important role as the site of a mint (AB ev)
  • Val d'Orcia
    Inscribed: 2004
    3.21
    203
    11
    During the Republic of Siena, which took refuge in Montalcino, the lower part of the Palazzo dei Priori was transformed into the headquarters of the State Mint of the Republic.
    See it.wikipedia.org
  • Tower of London
    Tower of London
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1988
    3.40
    646
    21
    Site of the Royal Mint from 1278-1810.
    See www.hrp.org.uk
  • Segovia
    Segovia
    Spain
    Inscribed: 1985
    3.84
    271
    16
    Casa de la Moneda
  • Ruins of León Viejo
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.21
    49
    5
    Royal foundry and mint
  • Rammelsberg and Goslar
    Inscribed: 1992
    3.20
    209
    11
    Goslar: "Das Silber des Rammelsberges hat schon im 10 und 11. Jahrhundert zu einer bedeutenden Münztätigkeit in Goslar geführt. Im Jahre 1331 ist die städtische Münze erstmals urkundlich bezeugt."
    See www.abebooks.fr
  • Potosi
    Potosi
    Bolivia
    Inscribed: 1987
    3.18
    91
    6
    La Moneda, a mint established in 1672 to coin the silver. The WHS is also explicitly linked to the economic change brought in the 16th century by the flood of Spanish currency resulting from the massive import of precious metals.
  • Paris, Banks of the Seine
    Inscribed: 1991
    4.20
    687
    20
    Hôtel de la Monnaie
    See fr.wikipedia.org
  • Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge
    Inscribed: 2019
    2.22
    145
    7
    Olbernhau, Jachymov
  • Longobards in Italy
    Inscribed: 2011
    2.80
    233
    14
    Casteseprio: "At one point coins were minted there - a sign of its importance."
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Ferrara
    Ferrara
    Italy
    Inscribed: 1995
    3.28
    238
    10
    "The city had been an important medieval centre, a free city with its own laws and even its own mint (...)." (Official description)
  • Schwerin Residence Ensemble
    Inscribed: 2024
    2.86
    124
    5
    "1778 wurde das als Wohnhaus errichtete repräsentative Gebäude im Autrag Herzog Friedrichs zur offiziellen Münzprägestätte Mecklenburg-Schwerin umgebaut."
    See www.welterbe-schwerin.de