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Museo Casa de Moneda

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Established	July 20, 1961; 63 years ago (July 20, 1961)
Location	Calle 11 # 4-93 Bogotá
Coordinates	4°35′49″N 74°04′25″W / 4.5970°N 74.0735°W / 4.5970; -74.0735
Type	Numismatics
Public transit access	Museo del Oro station
Website	www.banrepcultural.org/bogota/casa-de-moneda

The Museo Casa de Moneda (Spanish for Mint Museum) is a numismatics museum located in La Candelaria neighborhood of Bogotá, Colombia. It is managed by the Bank of the Republic of Colombia and used to display its numismatic collection that is composed by around 18,600 objects that include artwork, banknotes, bonds, coins, derivatives, medals, negotiable instruments, and printing instruments from various periods and regions of the world.

The museum is located in the same building that served as the main mint for the New Kingdom of Granada, New Granada and modern-day Colombia between 1621 and 1987. Coin minting was moved to the Fábrica de Moneda in Ibagué in 1987.

The Museo Casa de Moneda is part of the Banrepcultural Network along with the Botero Museum, the Gold Museum, the Luis Ángel Arango Library, and the Miguel Urrutia Art Museum in Bogotá.

History

The museum stands where the New Kingdom of Granada established its first mint by orders of Philip III of Spain. It was the original location of the national mint having been founded in 1621 as the mint ("casa de moneda" translates as "mint") by spanish military engineer Alonso Turrillo de Yebra.

With the purpose of presenting the history of Colombian currency, from the Colony to the Republican period, on July 20, 1961, the Bank of the Republic opened the doors of the Numismatic Museum on where it exhibited for the first time its extensive collection of coins and tickets. At that time the museum had 1,032 pieces, including 400 two-escudo gold Santa Fereña macuquinas, minted between 1628 and 1636, found in the Magdalena River and known as the Tesoro del mesuno.

On 11 July 1975, the Colombian Institute of Culture, now known as the Ministry of Culture by order of decree established that the edifice where the museum now stands was declared a National Treasure due to its historical value. With the establishment of the Fábrica de Moneda in Ibagué in 1982, and the eventual move in the production of Colombian peso coins to the new mint, the Casa de Moneda closed production in 1987.

On 23 July 2023, and in commemoration of the Bank of the Republic centennial, the Museo Casa de Moneda re-opened to the public with a new permanent exhibition.

Collection

The Museo Casa de Moneda in itself does not have a permanent collection, however it is adapted by the Banco de la República to display its numismatic collection as well as part of its art and pre-columbian archeology collections, borrowed from the Gold Museum, that include themes pertaining to currency and its history.

As of the latest renovation that concluded in August 2023, Museo Casa de Moneda is divided into 11 different exhibitions. The first exhibition, Casa de Moneda Santafé, covers the history of the first mints of the Spanish empire in the New World. The museum itself is located within the Santafé de Bogotá Mint building, which was established by Philip III of Spain in 1620 to coin gold and silver that circulated in the New Kingdom of Granada. The second exhibition, the History of Currency, includes a range of pre-Columbian currency items like cacao seeds and shell money, as well as barley from the Akitu people, and examples of commodity money like cigarettes in prisons.

The third and fourth exhibitions, the History of currency in the New Kingdom of Granada: the Habsburgs and the History of currency in the New Kingdom of Granada: the Bourbons, cover the history of currency in Spanish America, particularly that pertaining to the New Kingdom of Granada. Items in this exhibits include Spanish Empire coins minted with silver from Cerro Rico, in Potosí, and Spanish Empire gold coins minted with gold extracted from colonial Antioquia and Chocó. The fifth exhibit, Independence, covers the history of currency during the Spanish American wars of independence and the First Republic of New Granada.

The sixth exhibition, How are Coins Made?, cover three eras of processes and techniques used for the manufacturing of coins. The first cover the artisanal manufacturing process of the macuquinas, the second the mechanical production process of the coins of cord, and lastly the industrial manufacturing process of current coins. Similarly, the eight exhibition How are Banknotes Made? cover the history of banknote making process in three important moments of Republican-era Colombia.

Exhibitions seven, nine, ten and eleven, cover the history of currency in the XIX, XX and XXI centuries, as well as an exhibition dedicated to numismatics in art.

Gallery

• Pre-columbian Muisca ofrenda with tunjos
• Axe-monies from the Manteño-Huancavilca culture in pre-Columbian Ecuador
• The Misanthrope (1600) by Pieter Brueghel the Younger
• 8 Maravedís from the Crown of Castile, 1604
• 2 Reales silver coin minted in Potosí, Bolivia, 1618
• An early coinpress, or mint, 1700s
• 4 Spanish escudo gold coin minted in the Captaincy General of Chile, 1749
• Mesuno Treasure coins from Honda, Tolima
• Un real banknote from Mompox, 1813
• 8 Colombian reales
• Early Colombian peso coins, 1850s
• Gold bar from the Medellín Mint in shape of a projectile, 1944
• Gold bullion coins from various Anglosphere nations

See also

• List of numismatic collections
• List of Mints

References

1. "Sala temporal 7A. Arte y moneda". Red Cultural del Banco de la República en Colombia. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
2. "About Banrepcultural". Red Cultural del Banco de la República en Colombia. Retrieved 29 August 2022. The cultural activity of Banco de la República extends as a network through 29 cities in the Colombian territory, and is carried out in the Gold Museum in Bogota, five Gold Museums in Armenia, Cali, Cartagena, Pasto and Santa Marta, the Ethnographic Museum in Leticia, the Luis Ángel Arango Library and the Casa Gómez Campuzano in Bogotá, the Library Network that extends through 28 Colombian cities, the Luis Ángel Arango Library Concert Hall, and Bogotá museums: Casa de Moneda, Botero Museum and, Miguel Urrutia Museum of Art (MAMU).
3. (in Spanish) History of the Casa de Moneda Archived August 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
4. https://www.banrepcultural.org/bogota/casa-de-moneda/bienvenidos/historia
5. "Apertura del Museo Casa de Moneda". Retrieved 29 October 2023.
6. "Sala 1. Casa de Moneda de Santafé". Red Cultural del Banco de la República en Colombia. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
7. "Sala 2. Historia del dinero". Red Cultural del Banco de la República en Colombia. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
8. "Sala 4. Historia de la moneda en el Nuevo Reino de Granada: los Borbones". Red Cultural del Banco de la República en Colombia. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
9. "Sala 3. Historia de la moneda en el Nuevo Reino de Granada: los Habsburgo". Red Cultural del Banco de la República en Colombia. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
10. "Sala 4. Historia de la moneda en el Nuevo Reino de Granada: los Borbones". Red Cultural del Banco de la República en Colombia. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
11. "Sala 5. Independencia". Red Cultural del Banco de la República en Colombia. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
12. "Sala 6. ¿Cómo se hacen las monedas?". Red Cultural del Banco de la República en Colombia. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
13. "Sala 8. ¿Cómo se hacen los billetes?". Red Cultural del Banco de la República en Colombia. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
14. "Exposición permanente del Museo Casa de Moneda". Red Cultural del Banco de la República en Colombia. Retrieved 28 October 2023.

External links

• (in Spanish) Casa de Moneda
• (in Spanish) COLOMBIAN BANKNOTES AND COINS

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