Ricerc@Sapienza

On December 27, 1911, King Vittorio Emanuele III inaugurated the new
Mint of the Italian State. For the first 50 years of the Kingdom of Italy,
several mints of the pre-unitary states were kept in operation until, in
1892, all the productions were concentrated in the ancient papal mint of
Rome. In the realization of the new Mint, a general process of increasing
the artistic quality and production capacity of the coin and medal was
completed, within the general aim of building the State of prime
minister Giolitti. In Rome during those years the Mayor Ernesto Nathan
(1907-1913) contributed more than others to raise the politics and
structure of Rome to the rank of Capital. For the development of the
arts linked to the coin and the medal during the design of the building,
the Government wanted to implement in the industrial complex a
Museum and a School of the Art of the Medal, a place of training and
artistic research, established in 1907 and active since 1908. For the
School and the Mint Museum, designed to collect historical collections
and give evidence of the arts and history, and for the workshops of the
Mint is therefore realized a building in the form of a palace that
integrates with the sequence of industrial environments for the factory.