Royal Mint (Spain)

Coordinates: 40°25′22″N 3°40′15″W / 40.4227°N 3.6709°W / 40.4227; -3.6709
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Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre
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Royal Mint
Ministry of Economy
Websitehttps://www.fnmt.es/

The Royal Mint of Spain (

mint of Spain. The FNMT-RCM is a public corporation that is attached to the Ministry of Economy
.

History

There were several public and private mints in Spain until Philip V, the first Bourbon King of Spain, decided in the 18th century to make minting coinage a State monopoly.

During the reign of

Jubia, Segovia and Manila (in the Philippines), and each one had its own cypher and signs. When the peseta
became the national currency in 1869, only the Royal Mint in Madrid was in operation.

In 1893 the Mint (Casa de la Moneda) and the Stamp Factory (Fábrica del Sello), which so far had been two different establishments sharing a building in Plaza de Colón, merged to create the Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre.

Banknote production for the

bingo cards and tickets for the state-run lottery
were printed.

Royal Mint today

Two plants, in Madrid and

ISO 9001
certified.

On 2 November 2015 Imprenta de Billetes, S.A. (IMBISA) was incorporated, whose corporate purpose is the production of

Banco de España and 20%-owned by FNMT-RCM (the Spanish Royal Mint), which may maintain this stake until 31 December 2017.[2] The company was created in response to the need to adapt to the legal framework for euro banknote production. This follows the approval by the European Central Bank
on 13 November 2014 of a new guideline that solely permits two alternatives for producing the national quota of euro banknotes: doing so at a printing works owned by the issuing central bank, or through a competitive tender aimed at external printers. The Spanish authorities chose the first option. Law 36/2014, of 26 December 2014, on the 2015 State Budget amended the Law of Autonomy of the Banco de España so that the central bank could entrust its euro banknote production quota to a commercial law firm in which it held a majority stake.[2]

Museums

The mint has a permanent museum exhibition, on the third floor of its headquarters building, called the Museo Casa de la Moneda.[3]

The historic mint in Segovia also houses a museum.

In popular culture

The mint is the focus of the Spanish television series Money Heist (La casa de papel), although the exterior of the Mint building in the series is that of the building of the Spanish National Research Council.[4][5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Burgos Paper Mill". Real Casa de la Moneda. Archived from the original on 14 June 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  2. ^ a b "IMBISA incorporated to produce euro banknotes in Spain" (PDF). bde.es. Banco de España. 2 November 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
  3. ^ "Museo Casa de la Moneda - FNMT". www.museocasadelamoneda.es. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  4. ^ "La verdadera casa de papel". BAE Negocios.
  5. ^ ""La casa de papel" se rueda en el CSIC". May 17, 2017.

External links

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