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The Mint mint Colombia was founded by the military engineer Turrillo Yebra Alonso in the seventeenth century. It now houses the art collection of coins and Bank of the Republic. It is located on 11th Street and Carrera 4, in the colonial neighborhood of La Candelaria in downtown Bogota. In 1975 it was declared monument nacional.1


Turrillo of Yebra Alonso came in 1621 with royal ordinances that accredited him to create the first mint in the New Kingdom of Granada, and for that, he rented a house down in the neighborhood of La Candelaria in Bogota today to begin the work of coinage in which, using traditional methods were developed, among others, the first American gold cobs, called doubloons. also be found in your class or variety types of currency
Almost half a century later during the reign of Ferdinand VI, the House is extended to accommodate the new machines and production machines to produce circular pieces and better bill. In 1756 the Viceroy Solis reopened the House, as can be read in the frieze of stone doorway. The physical structure of the house expands and transforms through three hundred fifty years on several occasions. Since the seventies of the twentieth century took place in the cloister colonial recovery works its original architectural features, culminating in 1982. In the sample coin illustrates several aspects that are directly related to the currency and the history of the building and its various architectural interventions.

Currently in the Mint visitors can find a permanent, exhibitions of art collections and numismatic Bank of the Republic, and several temporary exhibitions.