Greetings,
Today marks the 3rd Anniversary since I went on a tour to Japan Mint
Amazing Experience
The Guide was Explained the Whole Area Very Nicely
Totally Recommended
I even saw the Minting of New 1 Reiwa Coins ( 10 yen to be precise )
Has Anyone gone on such a Tour ;)
Best Regards,
Amraan Amjad
Numista Referee for Coins of Kingdom of Bahrain, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Republic of Tunisia & Kingdom of Morocco
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As in this post: https://en.numista.com/forum/topic116812.html
I visited Austrian Mint, but only the shop.
I'd like, one day, to see the mint process like you did. Great experience, I'm a bit jealous
I visited the Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa some time in the 1990s.
I remember most vividly seeing a machine that was used to strike gold coins. It dated back to the opening of the Mint (then the Ottawa Branch of the Royal Mint) in 1908.
1 - The Royal Australian Mint in Canberra, ACT - Great place to visit, free parking, free entry, free tour, lots of interesting displays, a gallery that overlooks the coin minting workshop and machinery, a great cafe/restaurant and a great shop selling coins. You can also mint your own $1 NCLT coin on the Visitor Press.
2 - The Royal Mint in Llantrisant, Wales UK. - Also pretty good. Free parking, free entry to the coin shop and cafe, but a very expensive charge of £15 for the guided tour! This includes you stamping your own coin.
3 - The Royal Dutch Mint in Utrecht (Now closed) - No free parking, expensive €12 charge to just go in the door, no cafe, very poor shop with no coins to buy. No wonder they closed it.
Cheers Mike
Master Referee - See my profile for what I collect.
I've never been to an active mint, but I was at the British Museum's numismatic summer school a few years back. Here's an old post where I put up photos of some of the coins I got to handle: British Museum Numismatics Summer School – Numista
It included a trip to the Tower of London's Tower Mint exhibit. The Tower Mint was England and the UK's main mint up until 1816. The exhibit had a Petition Crown on display at the time (photos in that old forum post I linked). I don't know if it's still there, but the exhibit is well worth visiting if your ever in the Tower of London.
The United States Mint in Philadelphia used to be open to the public for self-guided tours until the beginning of the COVID epidemic (March 16, 2020).
I lived in that area for 35 years and went a few times.
Last month I visited Monnaie de Paris museum and mint shop. the first mint that I visited.
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I was in the old Bank of Ireland printing house a couple of weeks ago, where they also used to mint their coins and print banknotes. We looked at the old banknote printing plates and coin presses.
Not sure what it is like today, but a few years ago you had a guided tour and could see the minting machines and some historic elements
like kind of a bunker in the historic staircase where in former times a police officer with a machine gun would have sat and guard the staircase.
They gave away a free plastic souvenir folder containing a US cent and a coin blank for such a Cent.
In the shop they sell all kind of stuff, souvenirs like magnets and postcards, books and also the whole range of numismatic products. Funny thing is a machine where you put in a Dollar bill and get 4 brand new quarters that they mint at that time. Unfortunately nothing comparable for the current 1 Dollar coins. You see them during the whole tour (they seem to have only minted that golden Dollars when I was last there) but no chance to get them there. Even at the cash register they did not have any.
Will be in Denver again later this year. Maybe if there is time I will drop by…
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