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The Mint Museum in Osaka. It conveys the metalworking technology used to make coins.
About this place
The Mint Museum is a museum on the grounds of the Mint Bureau headquarters in Kita Ward, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture. It opened in 1969. The massive brick building is a reuse of the former Mint Bureau thermal power plant facility built in 1911 (Meiji 44). The museum is divided into four rooms, which together exhibit about 4,000 items, centered on Japanese currency such as oban, koban, chogin, trade silver and the Kocho Juni-sen, together with foreign currency, decorations, medals and crafts, and introduces the history of currency.
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Source ja.wikipedia.org ↗Key facts
Field：Coin minting, metalworking
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