MDA Members

Algeria

Hotel des Monnaies/Banque d'Algerie

The mission of the Bank of Algeria is to maintain, in the field of money, credit and foreign exchange, the most favourable conditions for the orderly development of the economy.

Mint Director: Omar Aitembarek

Australia, Canberra

Royal Australian Mint

The Royal Australian Mint is Australia’s national mint and sole producer of circulating coins for Australia. The Mint also produces circulating coins for other countries, and manufactures a vast array of collector coins, investor products, medals, medallions and tokens for domestic and international clients.

The Royal Australian Mint is the custodian of Australia’s national coin collection. It is also a major tourism attraction in Canberra, helping to educate local and international visitors on the history of Australian coinage, as well as how coins are produced in a contemporary manufacturing environment.

Mint Director: Mr Leigh Gordon

Australia, Perth (Associate)

Perth Mint

The Perth Mint is a leading gold and silver refiner and manufacturer of high quality precious metal coins and minted products. It celebrates 125 years of history in 2024 and is Australia’s oldest operating mint, employing more than 700 people.

Established during Western Australia’s gold rush in 1899 as a branch of Britain’s Royal Mint, it continues to run its coining production, retail outlet and tours from the original premises. The Perth Mint produces bullion products for markets around the world as the Australian Government’s official bullion coin program provider. Its range of collector coins are sought after for their purity, innovation, quality and designs. It supports the Australian gold industry, with its refinery processing almost 80% of the nation’s newly mined gold in 2022-23. The Perth Mint is owned by the government of Western Australia and all precious metal holdings are backed by a government guarantee under state legislation. This makes the Mint one of the lowest risk precious metals enterprises in the world.

Austria

Munze Osterreichag

With more than 800 years of coin-making experience, the Austrian Mint has operated as a private company since 1988 and is the sole manufacturer of coinage to the Austrian people.

Owned in its entirety by the Austrian National Bank, the Austrian Mint employs more than 200 people and produces around 450 million coins a year. As well as striking some of the world’s best-selling bullion coins and an impressive range of collector coins and medals, the Austrian Mint supplies circulation coins and blanks to many other countries.

Mint Director: Mr Gerhard Starsich

Belgium

Royal Mint of Belgium

The Royal Mint of Belgium is responsible for the circulation of coins as well as design, quality control and screening for counterfeit coins. The Royal Mint also represents the Belgian State on an international level.

Coinage and the commercialisation of commemorative coins and medals have been awarded to the Royal Dutch Mint. The Belgian king remains the issuing authority.

Brazil

Casa da Moeda do Brasil

Casa da Moeda do Brasil (CMB) has invested in the latest technology to offer its customers the latest security solutions. The company has three industrial units: the Banknote Department, the Department of Coins and Medals, and the Department of Graphics and Cards.

The Department of Graphics and Cards is responsible for producing the company’s graphic products such as passports, tax stamps, postage stamps, diplomas and wallets among other things. Art, innovation, quality and technology are trademarks of CMB.

Canada

Royal Canadian Mint

The Royal Canadian Mint’s high-tech plant in Winnipeg produces over one billion circulation coins each year, issues special circulation coins to mark events or occasions – such as the coloured Poppy quarter, the Millennium series of 25-cent coins and the 2010 Vancouver Olympic mascot coin.

The mint also produces limited-mintage numismatic coins to honor major national achievements and themes. It also refines and produces Maple Leaf bullion coins, gold kilo bars, trade bars and gold wafers. The Mint offers several services to businesses and foreign governments, and prides itself on the high standard of its outsourced coin production, storage, assay, reference and analysis tools, as well as its world-class refinery.

Mint Director: Ms Marie Lemay

Chile

Casa de Moneda de Chile

With 273 years of history, Casa de Moneda de Chile is the oldest company in the country. Founded in 1743 as a monetary minting house, it has since diversified its offering by manufacturing patent plates, medals, plates and galvans, and by printing tickets, valued documents, passports, driver’s licenses, identity documents and stamps, among other products. The company ensures high standards of safety, quality and reliability.

China

China Banknote Printing and Minting Co

China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation (CBPM) is a legal currency printing and manufacturing unit directly affiliated with the People’s Bank of China. It governs 22 large and medium-sized enterprises and one state technology centre.

With nearly 30,000 employees and a total net asset of over RMB 40 billion Yuan, CBPM is engaged in banknote printing, banknote production, and R&D and manufacturing of banknote paper and bank and credit cards.

It also undertakes R&D and manufacturing of bank equipment and tools, manufacturing of special equipment for banknote printing and production, refining of high-purity gold and silver, and printing of special value-added invoices, negotiable instruments, specialised bank documents and advanced anti-forgery certificates.

Colombia

Banco de la Republica | Casa de Moneda

The Colombian Mint is a world-class precious metal refinery and assayer with a tradition of refining gold and silver for more than 100 years. The mint is trusted by Latin America’s miners for integrity, reliability and strict compliance process. Its subsidiary, the CIIGSA refinery, delivers the highest quality bullion bars.

Mint Director: Mr Nestor Eduardo Plazas Bonilla

Croatia

Croatian Mint

Croatian Mint is a state-owned enterprise, established on 23 April 1993 and which commenced operating on 14 January 1994. It produces circulating coinage for Croatia as well as gold and silver medals, commemorative plaques and badges in different metals, license plates and other programs on request. It does not produce paper money.

Mint Director: Mr Damir Bolta

Czech Republic

Ceska Mincovna

Since its establishment, the Czech Mint has been the exclusive supplier of circulation and commemorative coins for the needs of the Czech Republic’s central bank. It also produces medals, historical coins, tokens and pendants.

The plant is equipped with modern Gräbener presses for the mintage of circulation coins, as well as commemorative coins and medals made of precious and common metals. The mint is completely self-sufficient with respect to the manufacture of master dies and tools. Blanks for circulating coins and commemorative mintage are purchased abroad from reputable attested producers.

Mint Director: Michal Drtina

Finland

Mint of Finland Ltd

Mint of Finland Group is one of the world’s largest exporters of coins with target markets in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. The mint’s customers for circulating coins and coin blanks are central banks, ministries of finance and mints in other countries.

For collector coins, the company serves consumers and retailers. Mint of Finland is owned by the Finnish State.

Mint Director: Mr Jonne Hankimaa

France

Monnaie de Paris

Founded in 864, Monnaie de Paris is France’s longest-standing institution and the oldest enterprise in the world. It provides a public service by striking euro coins for circulation in France as well as coins for other foreign currencies.

For twelve centuries, Monnaie de Paris has cultivated a venerable tradition of metalworking arts and crafts. It was the first industrial establishment in Paris and is the last in operation today. Artistic pieces are still produced at its historic Quai de Conti workshop. Attached to the French ministry for the economy, finances and industry since 1796, Monnaie de Paris became an Etablissement public industriel et commercial (EPIC, an official designation for state-funded industrial and commercial institutions) in January 2007.

Mint Director: Mr Marc Schwartz

Germany, Bavaria

Bayerisches Hauptmunzamt

With more than 850 years of operation, the Bavarian Main Mint is the oldest company in Munich. It represents quality in the production of circulation coins and collectors’ coins, but also in the production of official seals and medals.

The Mint has incorporated the wishes and suggestions of groups such as the Association for the Blind or the vending industry into the design and properties of its coins, as well as the need to protect against counterfeiting.

Mint Director: Mr Reinhard Riffel

Germany, Baden-Wuerttemberg

Staatliche Munzen Baden-Wurttemberg

The State Mints of Baden-Wuerttemberg are Germany’s largest minting enterprise, employing 80 people at two locations. Being a state-owned enterprise, both mints are responsible for more than 40% of all German euro coins.

Euro circulation coins and German commemorative coins and medals are struck in the Karlsruhe and Stuttgart mints using the latest technology, as well as coins and medals on behalf of central banks from all over the world. The State Mints of Baden-Wuerttemberg are thus among the world’s leading coin producers.

Germany, Berlin

Münze Berlin

As the oldest producing enterprise in the city of Berlin, the Berlin State Mint produces the currency of Europe, the euro. With state-of-the-art machines and experienced artists, it is optimally equipped for all customer requirements and can produce according to individual wishes, from legal tender to a valuable anniversary medal.

As the mint of the capital, the Berlin Mint not only produces one-fifth of all German coins, but also regularly creates its own special silver coins and medals. Each year, the Münze Berlin dedicates around 20 to 30 current issues to its special coinage in silver and gold. The commemorative coins recognise topics that are of significance to Berlin or Germany.

Mint Director: Mr Andreas Schikora

Germany, Goeppingen (Associate)

Schuler Group (Associate Member)

Schuler offers customized cutting-edge technology in all areas of forming—from the networked press to press shop planning. In addition to presses, products include automation, dies, process know-how and service for the entire metalworking industry.

Schuler’s Digital Suite brings together solutions for networking forming technology and is continuously being developed to further improve line productivity and availability. For battery production in gigafactories, Schuler provides equipment and services in the process steps of cell assembly and formation. Our customers include automotive manufacturers and suppliers, as well as companies in the forging, household appliance and electrical industries. Presses from the Schuler Group mint coins for more than 180 countries. Founded in 1839 at our headquarters in Göppingen, Germany, Schuler has approx. 5,000 employees at production sites in Europe, China and the Americas, as well as service companies in more than 40 countries.

Germany, Hamburg

Hamburgische Münze

The oldest mint in Germany, the Hamburgische Münze has a long tradition closely linked to the development of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. The first coinage in Hamburg is dated to the year 834.

One of the most important tasks of the Hamburgische Münze is the coinage of the euro for the Federal Republic of Germany with the embossing mark “J”. All German mints answer to the ministry of finance in their respective state. The Federal Ministry of Finance determines which mints strike which coins in which quantities.

Mint Director: Ralph Thiemann

Greece

The Banknote Printing Works of the Bank of Greece (IETA) - National Mint

The IETA National Mint produces euro banknotes and other security products, as well as euro coins, commemorative and collector coins and medals. The mint is a pioneering plant delivering products that meet the Eurosystem’s security specifications and international security standards for maximum protection against counterfeiting and forgery.

It also offers collector and commemorative coins, which are designed by the IETA artists and have won international acclaim for their aesthetic value. IETA also undertakes various printing tasks on behalf of the Greek State or third parties.

Mint Director: Mr Timoleon Karakousis

Hungary

Hungarian Mint Ltd

The history of the Hungarian Mint is closely intertwined with the traditions of Hungarian coinage, which began with the minting of the silver denar in 1001. The primary activity of the Hungarian Mint is the production of high-quality coins and medals.

It also produces large quantities of circulation coins for the National Bank of Hungary and commemorative coins and medals highlighting Hungarian history and culture. The exceptional quality of the mint’s products is ensured by its highly-experienced experts and state-of-the-art technology, as is reflected in the mint’s outstanding international success, awards and reputation.

Mint Director: Ms Terez Horvatha

Indonesia

Peruri

Peruri was established in 1971 from the merger of two State Companies. Its core business is the production of banknotes, coins, valuable security documents and non-currency coins such as official seals, medals, badges and trophies.

Peruri is solely owned by the Government of Indonesia. It has also established subsidiary businesses to provide world-class integrated security printing and systems for domestic and regional markets.

Italy

Istituto Poligrafico E Zecca Dello Stato

Italy’s State Mint and Polygraphic Institute (IPZS) was founded in 1928 and is situated in Rome. As well as producing coins, passports, and postage stamps for Italy, IPZS serves the Vatican City, San Marino, and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

It designs anti-counterfeiting and security systems for identity cards, electronic passports, driving licenses and residence permits, and manufactures vehicle registration plates and manages institutional sites and databases.

Japan

Japan Mint

In 1871 the Japan Mint was established in Osaka by the Meiji government to modernise the coinage system. The introduction of minting using Western-style facilities was epoch-making in Japan in those days.

In addition to the mint’s main operation of coinage, it produces orders (decorations), medals of honour and metallic art objects, and conducts analysis and testing of metal ores and minerals. The mint also distributes commemorative coins symbolising the culture of Japan and numismatic coin sets manufactured with innovative techniques and creative designs with the aim of meeting the various demands of the general public.

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan Mint

The Kazakhstan Mint is a modern enterprise known for its dynamic development and high-precision facilities. It produces circulation and collectors’ coins, as well as state, jubilee, corporate and sport awards and brands for state standard and hallmark control agencies.

The mint was established in 1992 when the Republic of Kazakhstan became independent.

Mint Director: Mr Alexandr Tranov

Korea

Korea Minting, Security Printing and ID Card Operating Corp. (KOMSCO)

KOMSCO has been supplying high-quality currencies since its foundation in 1951. Its main functions are to manufacture banknotes, coins, national bonds, various securities issued by the government, currency safety bonds issued by the Bank of Korea, postage stamps, special government certificates and other special printed items.

It also manufactures the paper needed for the printing of these items, and other special paper.

Korea (Associate)

Poongsan Coorporation

Over the past 56 years, Poongsan has earned its reputation as a trusted supplier of coin blanks to the global market. In 1970, the company received designation as the Republic of Korea’ s sole coin blanks manufacturer by the Korea Minting, Security Printing & ID Card Operating Corporation. Three years later, we first exported coin blanks to Taiwan. Since then, Poongsan has expanded its line to supply of its coin blanks to over 70 countries on six continents.

Today, 52 years after its first export, Poongsan is the world’ s largest coin blanks manufacturer, accounting for nearly half of the world’ s coin blanks trade volume.

Poongsan casts over 50 different types of coin blanks – from brass, nickel silver, cupronickel, aluminum bronze to other special copper alloys. In recent years, we have concentrated on meeting the global demand for bi-metal, clad metal and Nordic coin blanks. Poongsan has also expanded its coin blanks production to include stainless steel coin blanks. Beyond circulating coins, our company operates specialized facilities dedicated to the production of precious metal coin blanks for commemorative coins and medallions.

Poongsan has supplied precious metal blanks for a range of notable domestic and international events – including the 1988 Olympic Games, the 2002 FIFA World Soccer Game, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in 2005, the 2014 Asian Games, and the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. With over five decades of expertise, we remain highly competitive in the global market for precious metal blanks.

With sophisticated technology and uncompromising dedication to excellence, Poongsan prides itself on consistent and timely delivery of its products at competitive prices. Superior products, reliable performance have helped us cultivate a strong and loyal relationship with our customers. Our production network and comprehensive customer service have positioned us not only to further strengthen our global presence and expand into new markets, but also to Poongsan’s position as the world leader in the coinage industry.

We look forward to strengthening relationships with those of you who are our valued customers, while also forging new friendships and partnerships that benefit our employees, shareholders, suppliers, and partners.

Liechtenstein (Associate)

CIT Coin Invest AG

For more than 50 years, the CIT team based in the Principality of Liechtenstein has been developing innovative and high-quality coins that delight collectors all over the world. The key to success of the family- run business – many years of experience combined with youthful creativity.

CIT’s products are anything but ordinary. This is appreciated by many international clients (dealers and national banks), for whom more than 300 different coin projects are completed every year. Be it design, production or marketing. The CIT team provides each client with the tailor-made service they need to successfully realize their numismatic vision.

In cooperation with the production partner B.H.Mayer, the revolutionary smartminting® technology was developed, opening a new chapter in minting history. It not only enables sensationally high relief on both sides, but also an enormous degree of detail. Be it silver, gold, platinum or copper. Combined with various finishes, color application, inlays or special shapes – these technical possibilities place hardly any limits on the designers, resulting in timeless numismatic works of art.

However, one thing is non-negotiable at CIT. Every customer and coin enthusiast in the world can rely on the quality of the products. Every step in the creation of a CIT coin is closely monitored. No compromises are made. This is evidenced by the results of independent grading companies, which constantly award CIT coins with above-average gradings. In addition, internationally renowned juries have honored CIT coins 30 times for innovative designs, technical innovations and artistic solutions.

Lithuania

Lithuanian Mint

When the Lithuanian Mint was established in 1990, it aimed to revive the traditions of minting Lithuanian coins that flourished during the Middle Ages and continued during the pre-war period but were stopped in 1940.

Its main activity is striking circulation and collector (commemorative) coins. The mint also produces state decorations (orders and their medals), various medals, badges, metal dies, punches for printing houses and other items.

Malaysia

Kilang Wang, Bank Negara Malaysia

Kilang Wang, also known as The Mill, was established in 1971. At that time it could produce 70 million coins a year, which was a milestone for Malaysia as it marked the first time the country’s coins were made locally instead of overseas.

Owned by Malaysia’s Central Bank, Kilang Wang promotes monetary and financial stability for the Malaysian economy. The facility produces coins and commemorative coins.

Mexico

Casa de Moneda de Mexico

Casa de Moneda de México was founded in 1535, the oldest mint in America. For 487 years the Mint has been distinguished for the quality of its work all around the world.

Today, Casa de Moneda de México continues to make coin history and is a first-brand trademark in numismatic products and the work of fine metals for Mexico and the world.

Mint Director: Sergio Ernesto Casanueva Reguart

Netherlands (Associate)

Modern Numismatics International (MNI)

Modern Numismatics International is an Amsterdam based business to business coin company that positions itself closely to the major issuing authorities in the coin industry.

Starting in 2007, it saw a rapid growth to become one of the leading wholesale companies in the industry worldwide. With a small team of about 25 employees, Modern Numismatics International is a lean company, positioned for further growth. It is a part of a group of companies trading with commemorative coins both B2B, as well as B2C.

Philippines

Bangko Sentral NG Pilipinas

The Central Bank of the Philippines was established in 1948, in a definite step towards the country’s national sovereignty. Over the years, changes were introduced to make the bank’s charter more responsive to the needs of the economy, including the 1972 adoption of recommendations made by the Joint IMF-CB Banking Survey Commission into the Philippine banking system.

The Commission proposed a program designed to ensure the system’s soundness and healthy growth. Its most important recommendations were related to the objectives of the Central Bank, its policy-making structures, scope of its authority and procedures for dealing with problem financial institutions.

Poland

Mennica Polska

Mennica Polska is the manufacturer of circulation and collector coins for Narodowy Bank Polski, as well as the leader in production of collector coins and other numismatic products in Poland.

The mint is recognised as one of the three most technologically advanced mints in the world and has a strong position in the domestic market as well as contracts in the remotest corners of the globe. It is the only manufacturer of investment gold in Poland, and leads in the area of implementation, operation, maintenance and development of city card systems in Polish cities.

Mint Director: Mr Siemowit Kalukiewicz

Portugal

Portuguese Mint and Official Printing Office (INCM)

With more than 700 years of history, coin production is one of the main areas of the Portuguese Mint and Official Printing Office (INCM), a public company also responsible for the production and supply of other goods and services that require high security standards, such as identification documents, bank cards, the authentication of precious metals artifacts or the publication of the Official Journal, among many others.

Currently, technological innovation, developed in partnership with the main national universities and research centers, as well as the fulfillment of the most demanding quality standards, allows the development and minting by INCM of exclusive circulation and collector coins for Portugal and for other countries. Some of those coins are patented and awarded internationally.

Slovakia

Mincovňa Kremnica

The Mint of Mincovňa Kremnica was established in 1328, and for nearly seven centuries has continuously produced mint articles that rank among the world’s top products. Its long experience in minting has created the capacity to produce a wide variety of extraordinarily high-quality products, and thus satisfy customers every year.

The mint’s products are made of precious and other metals such as gold, silver, copper, brass and aluminium.

Mint Director: Mr Vlastimil Kalinec

South Africa

South African Mint Co Pty Ltd

The South African Mint is the leading African mint with over 100 years’ experience in supplying coins to Africa and the world. The mint works in close collaboration with its customers to provide durable monetary exchange products that capture and preserve the heritage and pride of a nation.

With over 140 years of manufacturing experience, the mint boasts an impressive list of international clients and is able to create a tailor-made package of products and services to fulfil the specific requirements of each customer. Since 1996, South Africa’s 11 official languages have been acknowledged annually in rotation on the Five Rand coin.

Mint Director: Ms Gerda Janse van Vuuren (Acting)

Spain

Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre-Real Casa de la Moneda

The FNMT-RCM is a public company created in 1893 by merging two age-old organizations, the Casa de la Moneda (The Mint) and the Fábrica del Sello (The Stamp Factory).

Its activity encompasses security paper manufacturing, printing banknotes, postage stamps, fiscal seals, security labels, identification documents, passports, entrance tickets, and minting of circulating and collector coins. It also develops and manufactures smart cards and electronic certificates and services associated with the implementation and full development of national identification systems.

Switzerland

Swissmint

Swissmint is a traditional Swiss company, focussed on supplying the Swiss market with circulation coins for daily transactions. It also produces collector and investment coins in precious and base metals.

The need for circulation coins is determined by the Swiss National Bank. There are over five billion Swiss coins in circulation with a face value of more than CHF 2.9 billion. This is the equivalent of over 18,000 tonnes in terms of weight.

Mint Director: Mr Marius Haldimann

Thailand

The Royal Thai Mint, Treasury Department

There have been five Thai Mints since 1875, following the order by King Rama IV in 1860 to construct the first mint, Sitthikarn Mint. The current mint began operating in January 2002.

Its yearly production capacity is 1,000M circulation coins, 50M commemorative coins, 500,000 sets or Royal orders and 4.7M medals /other metallic pieces /art objects per year. The designs of the circulation coins are modified accordingly to the reign in which they are issued. Commemorative coins are specially produced to mark important events related to the royal family, the kingdom and religion, and are mostly minted in gold, silver and copper base alloy.

Mint Director: Mr Patchara Anuntasilpa

The Netherlands

Royal Dutch Mint

The Royal Dutch Mint is the country’s only producer of Dutch euro coins. It is an innovative and internationally oriented company rooted in a 450 years of tradition, dealing in value-added products.

Recent innovative developments include laser and 3D techniques on coins, which enable, for instance, applying a QR code or micro text. The Royal Dutch Mint belongs to the global top five producers of circulation coins, commemorative coins and collector’s items. The company has been based in Utrecht since 1567.

Mint Director: Ms Ingrid Van Herzele

Turkey

Turkish State Mint / General Directorate of Mint and Printing

The Turkish State Mint (in Turkish, Darphane) is a state-owned entity responsible for minting the coinage of Turkey. Situated in Istanbul, it produces circulating and commemorative coins, gold coins, official seals, medals, tokens, visas, tax stamps, passports and all kinds of valuable paper for the Republic of Turkey.

It is successor to the largest mint of the Ottoman Empire, the Constantinople Mint or ‘Kostantiniyye Mint’, the earliest mention of which is in a document by Sultan Mehmed II in 1467.

Ukraine

National Bank of Ukraine Banknote Printing and Minting Works

The National Bank of Ukraine Banknote Printing and Minting Works commenced operation in 1998 and began minting circulation coins in late 2000. It produces banknotes and coins as well as commemorative and investment coins, and medals and badges for honorary titles, state prize laureates and presidential awards.

The mint also produces banknote and protected paper. The first circulating coin to be struck at the mint was the one kopiika coin. To date the mint has produced almost 10 billion of low denomination and circulating coins.

Mint Director: Mr Volodymyr Reshynskyi

United Kingdom, Wales

Royal Mint

The Royal Mint’s first responsibility is to make and distribute United Kingdom coins as well as to supply blanks and official medals. Throughout the 1000 years or so of the mint’s existence, English and then British coinage has remained its principal focus.

However, the Royal Mint is also the world’s leading export mint, making coins and medals for an average of 60 countries every year. The mint’s headquarters employ more than 900 people, and its 35-acre site operates around-the-clock for 52 weeks a year. It can produce 90 million coins and blanks a week, which is almost five billion coins a year.

Mint Director: Ms Anne Jessopp

United Kingdom, Great Britain (Associate)

Arrandene MFG (Associate)

Arrandene MFG is a family-run business that belongs to a family-owned group. At our core, we are a metals company supplying materials to a diverse range of industries, including automotive, aerospace, food packaging, and, of course, minting.

We have proudly been a member of the minting community for over a decade, collaborating with central banks and mints across all continents. Our specialised department, staffed by a team of knowledgeable and dedicated professionals, provides a unique service for purchasing old and obsolete coins, including plated coins, alloy coins, and precious metals. We have successfully assisted mints and banks in recycling thousands of tonnes of coins, which has allowed them to generate significant financial returns while being able to participate in a centuries-old sustainable practice.

United States

United States Mint

The United States Mint serves the American people by manufacturing and distributing circulation, precious metal and collectible coins and national medals, and by providing security over the assets entrusted to it.

Since 1792, the mint has taken great pride in rendering the story of the United States of America in coins. The mint is the nation’s sole manufacturer of legal tender coinage and is responsible for producing circulation coinage for the nation to conduct its trade and commerce. The mint also produces coin-related products including proof, uncirculated, and commemorative coins, Congressional Gold Medals, and silver and gold bullion coins. The mint’s programs are self-sustaining and operate at no cost to the taxpayer.

Mint Director: Ms Ventris Gibson

Member mints list

Algeria

The mission of the Bank of Algeria is to maintain, in the field of money, credit and foreign exchange, the most favourable conditions for the orderly development of the economy.

Mint Director: Omar Aitembarek

Australia, Canberra

Mint Director: Mr Leigh Gordon

Australia, Perth (Associate)

The Perth Mint is a leading gold and silver refiner and manufacturer of high quality precious metal coins and minted products. It celebrates 125 years of history in 2024 and is Australia’s oldest operating mint, employing more than 700 people.

CEO: Paul Graham

Austria

With more than 800 years of coin-making experience, the Austrian Mint has operated as a private company since 1988 and is the sole manufacturer of coinage to the Austrian people.

Mint Director: Mr Gerhard Starsich

Belgium

The Royal Mint of Belgium is responsible for the circulation of coins as well as design, quality control and screening for counterfeit coins. The Royal Mint also represents the Belgian State on an international level.

Coinage and the commercialisation of commemorative coins and medals have been awarded to the Royal Dutch Mint. The Belgian king remains the issuing authority.

Brazil

Casa da Moeda do Brasil (CMB) has invested in the latest technology to offer its customers the latest security solutions. The company has three industrial units: the Banknote Department, the Department of Coins and Medals, and the Department of Graphics and Cards.

The Department of Graphics and Cards is responsible for producing the company’s graphic products such as passports, tax stamps, postage stamps, diplomas and wallets among other things. Art, innovation, quality and technology are trademarks of CMB.

Canada

The Royal Canadian Mint’s high-tech plant in Winnipeg produces over one billion circulation coins each year, issues special circulation coins to mark events or occasions – such as the coloured Poppy quarter, the Millennium series of 25-cent coins and the 2010 Vancouver Olympic mascot coin.

Mint Director: Ms Marie Lemay

Chile

China

China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation (CBPM) is a legal currency printing and manufacturing unit directly affiliated with the People’s Bank of China. It governs 22 large and medium-sized enterprises and one state technology centre.

With nearly 30,000 employees and a total net asset of over RMB 40 billion Yuan, CBPM is engaged in banknote printing, banknote production, and R&D and manufacturing of banknote paper and bank and credit cards.

Colombia

Mint Director: Mr Nestor Eduardo Plazas Bonilla

Croatia

Mint Director: Mr Damir Bolta

Czech Republic

Since its establishment, the Czech Mint has been the exclusive supplier of circulation and commemorative coins for the needs of the Czech Republic’s central bank. It also produces medals, historical coins, tokens and pendants.

Mint Director: Michal Drtina

Finland

Mint of Finland Group is one of the world’s largest exporters of coins with target markets in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. The mint’s customers for circulating coins and coin blanks are central banks, ministries of finance and mints in other countries.

For collector coins, the company serves consumers and retailers. Mint of Finland is owned by the Finnish State.

Mint Director: Mr Jonne Hankimaa

France

Founded in 864, Monnaie de Paris is France’s longest-standing institution and the oldest enterprise in the world. It provides a public service by striking euro coins for circulation in France as well as coins for other foreign currencies.

Mint Director: Mr Marc Schwartz

Germany, Bavaria

With more than 850 years of operation, the Bavarian Main Mint is the oldest company in Munich. It represents quality in the production of circulation coins and collectors’ coins, but also in the production of official seals and medals.

The Mint has incorporated the wishes and suggestions of groups such as the Association for the Blind or the vending industry into the design and properties of its coins, as well as the need to protect against counterfeiting.

Mint Director: Mr Reinhard Riffel

Germany, Baden-Wuerttemberg

The State Mints of Baden-Wuerttemberg are Germany’s largest minting enterprise, employing 80 people at two locations. Being a state-owned enterprise, both mints are responsible for more than 40% of all German euro coins.

Mint Director: Dr Peter Huber

Germany, Berlin

Mint Director: Mr Andreas Schikora

Germany, Goeppingen (Associate)

Schuler offers customized cutting-edge technology in all areas of forming—from the networked press to press shop planning. In addition to presses, products include automation, dies, process know-how and service for the entire metalworking industry.

Germany, Hamburg

The oldest mint in Germany, the Hamburgische Münze has a long tradition closely linked to the development of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. The first coinage in Hamburg is dated to the year 834.

Mint Director: Ralph Thiemann

Greece

It also offers collector and commemorative coins, which are designed by the IETA artists and have won international acclaim for their aesthetic value. IETA also undertakes various printing tasks on behalf of the Greek State or third parties.

Mint Director: Mr Timoleon Karakousis

Hungary

The history of the Hungarian Mint is closely intertwined with the traditions of Hungarian coinage, which began with the minting of the silver denar in 1001. The primary activity of the Hungarian Mint is the production of high-quality coins and medals.

Mint Director: Ms Terez Horvatha

Indonesia

Peruri was established in 1971 from the merger of two State Companies. Its core business is the production of banknotes, coins, valuable security documents and non-currency coins such as official seals, medals, badges and trophies.

Peruri is solely owned by the Government of Indonesia. It has also established subsidiary businesses to provide world-class integrated security printing and systems for domestic and regional markets.

Italy

Italy’s State Mint and Polygraphic Institute (IPZS) was founded in 1928 and is situated in Rome. As well as producing coins, passports, and postage stamps for Italy, IPZS serves the Vatican City, San Marino, and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

It designs anti-counterfeiting and security systems for identity cards, electronic passports, driving licenses and residence permits, and manufactures vehicle registration plates and manages institutional sites and databases.

Japan

In 1871 the Japan Mint was established in Osaka by the Meiji government to modernise the coinage system. The introduction of minting using Western-style facilities was epoch-making in Japan in those days.

Kazakhstan

The Kazakhstan Mint is a modern enterprise known for its dynamic development and high-precision facilities. It produces circulation and collectors’ coins, as well as state, jubilee, corporate and sport awards and brands for state standard and hallmark control agencies.

The mint was established in 1992 when the Republic of Kazakhstan became independent.

Mint Director: Mr Alexandr Tranov

Korea

It also manufactures the paper needed for the printing of these items, and other special paper.

Korea (Associate)

Today, 52 years after its first export, Poongsan is the world’ s largest coin blanks manufacturer, accounting for nearly half of the world’ s coin blanks trade volume.

We look forward to strengthening relationships with those of you who are our valued customers, while also forging new friendships and partnerships that benefit our employees, shareholders, suppliers, and partners.

Liechtenstein (Associate)

For more than 50 years, the CIT team based in the Principality of Liechtenstein has been developing innovative and high-quality coins that delight collectors all over the world. The key to success of the family- run business – many years of experience combined with youthful creativity.

Lithuania