Karlsruhe State Mint

A mint in Karlsruhe, Germany.

It is the smallest of Germany’s five existing mints. The Karlsruhe Mint began its operations on 9 February 1827 with the minting of the five-gulden Rheingold coin. Its task was to maintain an adequate supply of coinage for Baden. The aim was to replace the numerous foreign coins in circulation at the time by Baden’s own coins. In 1998 the Karlsruhe State Mint merged with its counterpart in Stuttgart to form the Baden-Württemberg State Mints. As of 2002, the Mints have been producing the EU euro coinage.

The Mint’s warden Ludwig Kachel was one of the men in charge of the operations.