Casa da Moeda do Brasil

Coordinates: 22°53′21″S 43°44′44″W / 22.88917°S 43.74556°W / -22.88917; -43.74556

Coin House of Brazil
Casa da Moeda do Brasil (CMB)
Agency overview
Formed March 8, 1694 (March 8, 1694) by D. Pedro II of Portugal
Headquarters Rua René Bittencourt, 371, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Agency executive
  • Alexandre Borges Cabral, President
Website www.casadamoeda.gov.br

The Casa da Moeda do Brasil is the Brazilian mint, owned by the Brazilian government and administratively subordinated to the Ministry of Finances. It was established in 1694. Its current headquarters and industrial facilities occupy a modern plant with 110,000 square metres (1.2 million square feet) in Rio de Janeiro's western suburb of Santa Cruz.[1]

It produces legal tender coins and banknotes. It also produces medals and security prints (i.e., passports, subway tokens, postage stamps) that are used and issued by government-run service providers. Having the highest technology and production capacity in South America, until the 1980s it also produced coins, banknotes and passports for several South American and African countries that lacked a similar facility. It is now aiming to return to the foreign market.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Casa da Moeda do Brasil - Overview". Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2009-02-18.
  2. ↑ "Casa da Moeda do Brasil - External Market". Retrieved 2009-02-18.


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