Soho Mint
Detail of the mintmarked cartwheel penny (very small "SOHO") of the Soho Mint
The Soho Mint was a private mint located near Birmingham . The Soho Mint belonged to Matthew Boulton , who, together with James Watt, installed the world's first steam-powered embossing machines there in 1786. Another innovation was linked to the commitment of Jean-Pierre Droz , the inventor of ring embossing .
The Soho Mint produced coins for the East India Company , the Sierra Leone Company and English colonial money for areas such as Ceylon , Barbados and the Bahamas . The Cartwheel Pennies were minted for the English government . Embossing technology based on the Soho Mint pattern was exported to Russia , Spain and Denmark .
literature
- Ewald Junge: Soho Mint . In: Tyll Kroha (editor): Lexicon of Numismatics . Bertelsmann-Lexikonverlag, Gütersloh 1977. p. 410.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 56 " N , 1 ° 55 ′ 34.7" W.