Royal Mint - Satellite Oddity - Llantrisant, Wales.
N 51° 33.254 W 003° 23.327
30U E 473045 N 5711532
The Royal Mint Featured in Virtual Globetrotting, the Satellite Oddity website. Minting all the coins for the UK, produces military & commemorative medals. also mints & exports coins to many other countries, & Located in Llantrisant, South Wales.
Waymark Code: WMRWF9
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/13/2016
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The Royal Mint began to move its operations from Tower Hill, London to Llantrisant, South Wales in 1968 and has operated on a single site in Llantrisant since 1980. At Llantrisant it holds an extensive collection of coins dating from the 16th century onwards, housed in eighty cabinets made by Elizabeth II's cabinet maker, Hugh Swann. The site occupies 38 acres (15 ha) and employs 765 people. Responsibility for the security of the site falls to the Ministry of Defence Police, who provide an armed contingent.
The Royal mint at Llantrisant known as the world's leading exporting Mint". Text source: (
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Where is the Royal Mint?
Opened by the Queen in 1968 in readiness for the introduction of the decimal coinage, the Royal Mint's headquarters in Llantrisant, South Wales, employs more than 900 people. Text Source: (
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