Automatic Press, Casa de Moneda
At the end of 1865 a new coin minting system was introduced based on the latest technology that came out of the industrial revolution, and five automatic Thonnelier Presses were bought from the factory in the UK and installed in the Casa de Moneda.
The Real Casa de Moneda, or Royal Mint, is the original Spanish mint where all the coins in Spain where one produced. After the centralization of the manufacture of currency in Madrid in 1869, the building was sold, and from 1879 onwards a flour factory was housed for one hundred years.
The property has recently been renovated, and visitors can now enjoy its two museums, temporary exhibition halls, historic garden and channels with hydraulic wheels, guest house, restaurant and bar-cafeteria.
