The Casa de Moneda de la República Argentina is the Argentine

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, controlled by the

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and administratively subordinated to the Ministry of Economy. A mint was established in 1779, before Argentina became independent. Law 733 of 1875 ordered the creation of two mints, one in

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and another in

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;Historia de la moneda
/ref> the Casa de Moneda in Buenos Aires was opened on 14 February 1881, with ingeniero (engineer) Castilla as director and John Joseph Jolly Kyle as chief chemist.Enrique Herrero Ducloux, "Juan J. J. Kyle (1838-1922), Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina, t. XCIII, 170, Buenos Aires, 1922 https://archive.org/stream/analesdelasocied94soci#page/n179/mode/1up It produces legal tender

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s and

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s. It also produces

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s and security prints (i.e., passports, subway tokens,

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s) that are used and issued by government-run service providers. The present currency printed is the

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, since 1992. In 1927 the Casa de Moneda Museum was inaugurated, with historical banknotes, coins, postal and other stamps, seals, medals, and others.

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* 1779 establishments in South America

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