Found: the world’s oldest known mint and its jumbo product

A mint discovered in China was churning out 14-centimetre-long ‘spade coins’ more than 2,500 years ago.

The world’s oldest known facility to mass-produce coins started operations some 2,600 years ago in what is now China’s Henan province.

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Nature 596, 320 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02181-7

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