The Paris Mint (6th)
The Musée de la Monnaie de Paris, opened in 2017, presents its collections and workshops free of charge throughout the month of August.
Currencies are exhibited through art, science and technology, the history of peoples, the economy or even sociology.
The route of the visit passes in front of the parts manufacturing workshops, live, during the working hours of the employees.
Foundry, patina and chasing workshop, coinage.
Even if most of it is made in a factory in Gironde, the Quai de Conti site strikes 120,000 coins a year, especially in silver and gold.
The museum also offers a “Coins and Wonders” exhibition, showing how money navigates between power and seduction across countries and ages.
The pieces were often incorporated into head ornaments, necklaces.
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