Swissmint

<h2 id="status">Status</h2>
<p>Swissmint is an agency of the <a href="/facts/Swiss_Federal_Council/D889pX2m">Swiss federal government</a>. It is part of the <a href="/facts/Federal_Finance_Administration/NgSzDET8">Federal Finance Administration</a>, which in turn belongs to the <a href="/facts/Federal_Department_of_Finance/5VFBHxC9">Federal Department of Finance</a>. Since 1998, the Official Mint of the Confederation operates as an independent business unit under the name <i>Swissmint</i>. As of 2005, Swissmint has 21 employees.
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<h2 id="building">Building</h2>
<p>The mint's building is a <a href="/facts/Swiss_inventory_of_cultural_property_of_national_and_regional_significance/Pu3QYDkc">heritage site of national significance</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> It was built in 1903–06 based on designs by Theodor Gohl to replace an older building at the <i>Gerberngraben</i>. The sober, industrial-style yellow brick building is fronted by a <a href="/facts/Neo-Renaissance/t9oXA3Ss">Neo-Renaissance</a> façade in marble and sandstone.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a>
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<h2 id="notes-and-references">Notes and references</h2>

<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Swiss_National_Bank/6sp30K8W">Swiss National Bank</a>, the independent institution responsible for Swiss <a href="/facts/Banknotes/mm6H2XI4">banknotes</a> and <a href="/facts/Monetary_policy/LXehzvG0">monetary policy</a>.</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="https://www.swissmint.ch/swissmint/en/home.html">Official website</a></li>
<li>(in German) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060216154043/http://www.efv.admin.ch/d/efv/swissm.htm">Federal Finance Administration website on Swissmint</a></li></ul>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance (1995), p. 105. <a href="/wiki/Swiss_inventory_of_cultural_property_of_national_and_regional_significance" target="_blank">/wiki/Swiss_inventory_of_cultural_property_of_national_and_regional_significance</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>"100 Jahre Eidg. Münzstätte im Kirchenfeld" (PDF). swissmintinfo 2/2006 (in German). Swissmint. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-10-29. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071029215233/http://www.swissmint.ch/upload/_pdf/swissmintinfo/d/info06_2d.pdf" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20071029215233/http://www.swissmint.ch/upload/_pdf/swissmintinfo/d/info06_2d.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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