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Mumbai Mint has a state-of-the-art gold refining facility up to 999.9. Hyderabad Mint has electrolytic silver refining facility up to 999.9. Commemorative coins are made at Mumbai and Kolkata. Kolkata and Hyderabad have facilities for making medallions, too. The Noida mint was the first in the country to mint coins of stainless steel.
The India Government Mint, Mumbai is one of the four mints in India and is in the city of Mumbai. The mint was established in 1824 by the then governor of the Bombay Presidency. [1] Its main activity is the production of commemorative and development-oriented coins. The mint is opposite the Reserve Bank of India in the Fort area of South Mumbai.
The mint produced Indian coins in the name of Emperor of India. Initially the mint was situated at Sultan Sahi in Moghalpura suburb of the Hyderabad city. The dies were made of steel but the private mints did not have a master die. The dies hence differed in size, production of coins was crude with only partial inscription appearing on coins ...
List of coins minted in foreign mint [15] Mint Country Year Coin Mint Mark Birmingham Mint: United Kingdom 1985 ₹1.00 'H' below last digit of the year Royal Mint: United Kingdom 1985 ₹1.00 ' ' below first digit of the year Taegu Mint: South Korea 1985 ₹0.50 '★' below first digit of the year Royal Canadian Mint: Canada 1985 ₹0.25
The Security Printing & Minting Corporation of India Ltd. (SPMCIL) is an organization under the Coin and Currency Division of Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance. It is responsible for conducting printing and minting activities for the Government of India. It is under the ownership of the Ministry of Finance, Government of India.
Today the United States Mint is largest mint manufacturer in the world, operating across six sites and producing as many as 28 billion coins in a single year. [2] Its largest site is the Philadelphia Mint which covers 650,000 square feet [3] (6 hectares) and can produce 32 million coins per day. [4]
The India Government Mint, Kolkata was first established in 1757, [2] and was located in a building next to the Black Hole in the old fort – where the GPO (General Post Office) stands today. [3] It was called the Calcutta Mint and used to produce coins with the mint name Murshidabad .
The India Government Mint, Noida, is one of the four mints in India; based in Noida, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, the mint started production on 1 July 1988 and is the only India Government Mint established since India became an independent country in 1947. [2]