Great Britain
The Royal Mint of the United Kingdom is located at Llantrisant, Wales. It is currently the only facility of the Royal Mint but has had branch mints in the past, located at:
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (now the main facility of the Royal Canadian Mint)
- The Perth Mint in Western Australia, a branch mint from 1899 to 1970 (even though Federation of Australia took place in 1901
- The Sydney Mint, which closed in 1926
- The Melbourne Mint
- The Pretoria Mint, in Pretoria, South Africa
- The Bombay Mint
Read more about this topic: Branch Mint
Famous quotes containing the word britain:
“I’ th’ world’s volume
Our Britain seems as of it, but not in’ t;
In a great pool a swan’s nest.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—Amos Oz (b. 1939)