Mint

Mint
Building Requirements	Nearby source of Gold or Silver
Production Cost	100
Unlocked at	Currency

The Mint is a building available in the Classical Era.

Game Info

Building a Mint requires a source of Gold or Silver near the city.

• +2 Gold from Gold and Silver

With Social Policies / Tenets:

• Mercantilism (Commerce): +1 Science
• Capitalism (Freedom): +1 Happiness

Overview

A mint is an institution that creates a civilization's currency. In the past this would tend to be metal currency in the form of coins, but in modern times much of the world's currency is printed on paper. Mints are extremely important to a civilization's economic well-being. If a nation's currency is easily forged, it will be, and confidence in that nation's money supply will plummet, resulting in dangerous inflation (the perceived value of the currency declines) or worse. Modern money is printed with holograms, variable ink and security threads to deter counterfeiters, and no doubt additional features will be added as the forgers figure out how to copy those.

Unique Building Replacements

Icon	Building	Civilization	Yields
	Metalsmith	The Gauls (Vercingetorix)	Can be built with sources of Copper, Iron, or Aluminum +2% Gold for every Mine
	Raffia Mill	Kongo (Nzinga)	Grants 1 copy of Raffia +2 Gold from Dyes Requires Jungle instead of Gold or Silver +20% Production Cost
	Silversmith	The Iceni (Boudicca)	+2 Culture
	Treasury	Mali (Mansa Musa)	+2 Gold from Salt No terrain requirement Grants Golden Age points based on total Gold reserves