Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato
The Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato SpA ( IPZS ; German Printing Institute and Mint of the State ) is the state printing company and the mint of Italy . It is a public limited company wholly owned by the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance . The company's headquarters are located on Via Salaria in Rome .
Business areas
The IPZS is responsible for printing and distributing the Official Gazette of the Italian Republic ( Gazzetta Ufficiale ) and other state publications . There are also security prints , so cards like passports , identity cards , smart cards and driving licenses as well as security systems and Internet services for government and private clients. It also produces coins , banknotes , medals , decorations , postage stamps , stamps and seals . The IPZS maintains a Coin National Analysis Center (CNAC), a national coin analysis center that contributes to the fight against counterfeit money crime .
history
The history of the state mint can be traced back to the time of the ancient Roman Republic . On the Capitol , in the temple of the Roman goddess Juno, has probably been since 289 BC. A mint. Juno's nickname was Moneta , meaning warner or admonisher, because her cult included the goose , which warns of the enemy with its chatter. Because the bust of the goddess adorned some of the coins minted there and Juno was also considered the patron saint of Roman coinage, the Moneta became the personification of coinage and money. For this reason, Moneta and the colloquial term Moneten derived from it stands for money .
The Roman mint remained active beyond the end of the Western Roman Empire and was eventually taken over by the Pope and his Papal States. In 1870 the papal mint was confiscated by the Kingdom of Italy , which that year had eliminated the rest of the Papal States and declared Rome the capital of the united country . With the exception of the Roman one, all mints of the old Italian states were abandoned by 1892, including the traditional Venetian Zecca .
At the instigation of King Victor Emmanuel III. , a renowned numismatist , a new building was built for the central mint in Rome at Via Principe Umberto 4 , a few hundred meters southeast of Termini Central Station . Not only were the production facilities located there, but also the coin cabinet , which had been in existence since 1824, and the Scuola dell'Arte della Medaglia school for medals, founded in 1907 . The latter is still there.
The State Printing House was founded in Rome in 1928. She was housed in a monumental building that had been built for the Court of Auditors on Piazza Giuseppe Verdi from 1914 (with interruptions due to the war) . In 1978 the printing company merged with the state mint and thus adopted its current name. The IPZS has been a stock corporation since 2002. In 2010 it moved its headquarters from Piazza Giuseppe Verdi to Via Salaria in the north of Rome. Other facilities are located in Via Gino Capponi , in Foggia in Apulia and in Verrès in the Aosta Valley .
museum
The Numismatic Museum of the IPZS (Museo della Zecca di Roma) , built up from 1958 on from the former papal and then royal coin cabinet, was located in the Palazzo delle Finanze on Via XX Settembre in Rome from 1961 to 2015 , then moved into the headquarters on Via Salaria new premises. The focus of the exhibition is the modern age . Not only are coins and medals on display, but also earlier production processes are shown, including using decommissioned embossing and printing machines.
The collections of the Banca d'Italia , the Museo della Moneta and the Museo della Banconota , are only partially accessible to the public. The numismatic section of the Museo Nazionale Romano in the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme is more important ; it includes the private coin cabinet (over 110,000 coins) of Victor Emanuel III, who died in exile.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brief description of the CNAC on ipzs.it
- ^ History of the Zecca di Roma
- ^ History of the Scuola dell'Arte della Medaglia
- ↑ La "fabbrica delle lire" simbolo dell'Italia unita. ilgiornale.it, November 25, 2015
- ↑ Brief description of the museum on its official website
Coordinates: 41 ° 58 ′ 16.4 ″ N , 12 ° 30 ′ 16.4 ″ E