The Polish Mint is a private company (Mennica Polska S.A.) which is the only body permitted to manufacture (mint

Mint (coin)

A mint is an industrial facility which manufactures coins for currency.The history of mints correlates closely with the history of coins. One difference is that the history of the mint is usually closely tied to the political situation of an era...

) coins

COinS

ContextObjects in Spans, commonly abbreviated COinS, is a method to embed bibliographic metadata in the HTML code of web pages. This allows bibliographic software to publish machine-readable bibliographic items and client reference management software to retrieve bibliographic metadata. The...

 and banknotes in Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

. It is located in Warsaw

Warsaw

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

. It is a Joint-stock company, with a listing on the Warsaw Stock Exchange

Warsaw Stock Exchange

The Warsaw Stock Exchange , , is a stock exchange located in Warsaw, Poland. It has a capitalization of € 220 bln .The WSE is a member of the World Federation of Exchanges and the Federation of European Securities Exchanges.-History:...

 since April 7, 1998, which makes it the only mint in the world that is publicly traded.

History

On the 10th February, 1766 the mint reform was effected in Poland, the new mint organized in Warsaw at Bielanska Street coined the gold, silver and copper pieces, as well as the medals and orders.

International partnerships

On February 5, 2009 at the World Money Fair

World Money Fair

The World Money Fair is an international bourse of coins. A bourse is where dealers, collectors and the public buy, sell and trade coins.In 1970 Albert M. Beck founded the "Organisation of European Coin-Bourses", "Organisation Europäischer Münzen-Börsen" in Munich...

 in Berlin a precedent-setting international partnership has been announced. The Polish Mint (Mennica Polska) and the Professional Coin Grading Service

Professional Coin Grading Service

PCGS is the acronym for Professional Coin Grading Service a third party grading service for grading rare coins. Founded in 1986, and located in Newport Beach, CA., it is a subsidiary of Collector's Universe, Inc. , a company that also buys and sells rare coins and operates a rare comic book...

(PCGS) set up a program to grade the mint’s new commemorative coins as well and establish a submission center at the mint in Warsaw, Poland. The new program will facilitate the submissions of Polish and Eastern European collectors and dealers for both vintage and modern world coins.