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Japan Mint is an Independent Administrative Institution of the Japanese government and has its Head office in Osaka with branches in Saitama and Hiroshima.
Japan Mint

ABOUT Japan Mint:



Japan Mint is an Independent Administrative Institution of the Japanese government responsible for producing circulating coins of Japan. It was established in Osaka by the Meiji government to modernize the coinage system. The mint also produces orders (decorations), medals of honor and metallic art objects.

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ADDRESS:
1-79, Temma 1-chome, kita-ku, Osaka 530-0043
JP, JAPAN

SUBJECT LOCATION: JAPAN, ISO CODE JP
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Japan Mint
Japan Mint is an Independent Administrative Institution of the Japanese government and has its Head office in Osaka with branches in Saitama and Hiroshima.
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Bank of Japan. Currency Museum - The Currency Museum of the Bank of Japan collects, preserves, and studies currency and currency-related historical and cultural materials.
Japan Mint - Japan Mint is an Independent Administrative Institution of the Japanese government and has its Head office in Osaka with branches in Saitama and Hiroshima.
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ADRIANO FIORENTINO
ADRIANO FIORENTINO (Ital.). Medallist of the second half of the fifteenth century, who worked at Naples (1483-1495), Urbino (1495) and in Saxony, and died in 1499. He belonged to the Florentine family de' Maestri, and was a pupil of Bertoldo, whose works of sculpture he was employed to cast. As a Sculptor, he executed a bust, dated 1498, of Frederick the Wise of Saxony (now in the Albertinum at Dresden). Herr von Fab...
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ADZER, DANIEL JANSEN
ADZER, DANIEL JANSEN (Danish). Medallist of the end of the eighteenth century in the service of the Danish court ( † 1808). Born in Schleswig, he was educated at Rome as pensioner of the Royal Academy of Copenhagen, and studied under Hedlinger and Duvivier, whom he imitated. On his return home, he was appointed first Medallist to the King of Denmark. We may mention amongst the medals he engraved: Marriage of Sophia M...
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AHLBORN, LEA
AHLBORN, LEA (Swed.). Born in 1826, she was the daughter of the celebrated Engraver Ludwig Persson Lundgren, under whom she learned the art. Amongst her first masters, Johan and Abraham Salmson, then Toussaint and Barre, the Paris sculptor and medallist, are the most conspicuous. In 1853 she succeeded her father as Engraver to the Swedish Mint, a post which she rilled until 1895. She married in 1854 a distinguished s...
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ACHESON JAMES
ACHESON or ACHESOUN, JAMES (Brit.). Moneyer (or Mint-master) at Edinburgh, 1525-1546, under James V. of Scotland. We read of his receiving on the 12th November 1526 an order to coin gold and silver money, and another, previously, on the 1st March 1525-6. Down to 1538, his name is several times mentioned in the accounts of the Lord High Treasurer under James V. ; it appears that the following year he refused to strike...
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