Medal - Casa da Moeda Inauguration of the Paper Mill

Reverse

Plain background with a lettered lettering in relief, read from top to bottom, with the words INAUGURAÇÃO DA FÁBRICA DE PAPEL MOEDA, on the date 14.4.1969.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
INAUGURAÇÃO
DA FÁBRICA
DE PAPEL MOEDA
14.4.1969

Translation:
INAUGURATION
FROM THE FACTORY
OF PAPER CURRENCY
4.14.1969

Edge

Serrated with eyelets at the top of the piece.

Comment

A sister-in-law to celebrate the founding of the Coin Paper Factory of the Casa da Moeda do Brasil.

Commemorative stamp of the event:


Photo of the gate of the Coin Paper Factory of the Brazilian Mint at the time. Today the building houses the National Archive of Brazil:


The Casa da Moeda do Brasil is the Brazilian mint, owned by the Brazilian government and administratively subordinated to the Ministry of Finances. It was established in 1694. Its current headquarters and industrial facilities occupy a modern plant with 110,000 square metres (1.2 million square feet) in Rio de Janeiro's western suburb of Santa Cruz.

It produces legal tender coins and banknotes. It also produces medals and security prints (i.e., passports, subway tokens, postage stamps) that are used and issued by government-run service providers. Having the highest technology and production capacity in South America, until the 1980s it also produced coins, banknotes and passports for several South American and African countries that lacked a similar facility. It is now aiming to return to the foreign market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_da_Moeda_do_Brasil