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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 222527, member: 39&quot;]In fact, it primarily makes circulation coins. The Irish euro collector coins have been made in Llantrisant/UK, Karlsfeld/DE, Pessac/FR and Vantaa/FI. Of the three Baltic countries Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, only the latter has a mint. Luxembourg does not have one either; its coins are made in Utrecht/NL, Vantaa, Pessac, Stuttgart/DE, Warsaw/PL and Vienna/AT. Slovenia&#039;s euro coins were made in Vantaa and Eskilstuna/SE. Malta has a mint but will have its first euro coins made in Pessac. The Cyprus pound coins have been produced in Hungary, Poland, Canada, and the UK; the CY euro circulation coins will be made in Finland. And so on ... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>As you wrote, it does not always pay off to maintain/operate a mint. Apart from the actual minting, you need to also make the planchets, or buy them from a metal processing company. Another issue is that certain pieces such as bimetallic coins or pieces with latent images require somewhat more sophisticated machines which are more costly. Again, you can order the blanks or &quot;prepared&quot; pieces from third parties, but you might as well say, why not simply buy the final product?</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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