state mint

造幣局／ state-mint　—　Making

The office through which a state makes all its coin in one place.

Gold ducat — A photograph of what this word names.

Keichō koban — A photograph of what this word names.

When a state consolidates its scattered mints into one, coinage of a uniform standard circulates throughout the country. The unification of coinage was, in many cases, first the unification of minting.