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Can anyone give the information about Largest Mint? Because I don't know about it.

Mint is manufacturing of coins and money.

Under The Coinage Act, 1906, the Government of India is charged with the production and supply of coins to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

The RBI places an annual indent for this purpose and the Government of India draws up the production programme for the India Government Mints on the basis of the intent.

Besides minting coins, the mints at Mumbai, Kolkata and Hyderabad also make coin blanks. Hyderabad, Mumbai, and Kolkata mints have gold assaying facilities and the Mumbai mint produces standardised weights and measures.

Mumbai Mint has a state of the art gold refining facility up to 999.9. Hyderabad Mint has electrolytic silver refining facility up to 999.9.

Commemorative coins are made at Mumbai and Kolkata. Kolkata and Hyderabad have facilities for making medallions, too.

The Noida mint was the first in the country to mint coins of stainless steel.

Can anyone give the information about Largest Mint? Because I don't know about it.

Name of the place is Salboni in Paschim Medinipur district about 150 km distant from Kolkata City.

Nice but I need the hole details about the place because I had never heared about any places so please give me some detail about the history places.