curious re "royal mint" as part of a country name

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Some of the new coin entities have "royal mint" as part of their name. I would think that technically, all coins are issued from a mint.
Oughtn't a coin-issuer to be named as the country/kingdom/entity that authorized the mint to make the coins? Is a "royal mint" something special vs. a regular mint?
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Royal mint is equal to king's coinage in sense.
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Thanks Jarcek.
So, if the Royal Mint made the King's coinage, did that mean there was another mint making something else for everyone else? Otherwise, why not just call the country "___________, Kingdom of"?

[I hope I'm not coming across as argumentative. I truly appreciate all the work that you are doing on the site. I just don't fully understand and I am trying to learn.]
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The countries in question:

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Citeer: "Pott"​Thanks Jarcek.
​So, if the Royal Mint made the King's coinage, did that mean there was another mint making something else for everyone else? Otherwise, why not just call the country "___________, Kingdom of"?

​[I hope I'm not coming across as argumentative. I truly appreciate all the work that you are doing on the site. I just don't fully understand and I am trying to learn.]
​Thanks
"Kingdom" is about the form of the state (such as Republic, Landgraviate, etc.) while "Royal mint" is more about the right of a mint to issue "king's coinage".
See it this way: several mints could have the right to mint king's coinage within 1 country i.e. a Kingdom could have several royal mints.
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Partially it was answered by Pejounet. More specifically - yes, there were more entities that made coinage in the kingdom, which could be used by everyone. Minting was not just kings privilege.

These other entities minted coins from two reasons - either shortage of kings coins (mostly cities) or for glory/personal use (you are quite rich when you can mint your own coins and pay with them). This is the case of bishoprics and counts coinages. For example, bishopric of Olomouc made so much coins under one bishop (I think it was Karl II, but I am not sure) that it was more common than kings own coinage.

One exception is Schlick family. Started minting coins without any right. They copied guldiner from Tyrol, creating Joachimsthaler and forcing king to change the currency entirely. It has givem standard (sort of) and name to all thalers to come after. Furthermore, it names lives/live on for centuries: Thaler/Daler/Daalder/Yefimok/Dollar/Birr/Riyal/Talero etc...

And from leeuwendaalder the Romanian Leu is derived.
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Thank you to all of you for your explanations.

The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know! Now I want a Joachimsthaler .... There are so many coins out there with such interesting back stories....

Thanks!
I won't even pretend to understand the German states. I only have Brunswick - Luneburg- calenburg hannover issues that I sort of get then there's the east frieselnd stiver which was I believe ceded to Hannover. And some Karl II Brunswick- Wolfenbuttel issues which actually had George IV, when he was Prince regent of the UK as Prince regent to Karl too. Confused.com !

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