Where Coins Are Made by Hand

A Renaissance mint under heavy oak beams, shown as six rooms in a stone frame. Top left, a registry office has a clerk at a wax-seal desk with a family-tree chart and a messenger entering. In the middle, a design archive has coin portraits, a drawer cabinet and a man reading a document. Next to it, a guard room has two armoured soldiers, pikes, shields and a map of Europe with a notice board. Below, the pressing room has a screw press where a man stamps a hot coin while a colleague watches. The engraving room has two men drawing lion crests at slanted desks. At the right, a testing room has a balance, a stack of weights and labelled samples of gold, silver and copper. Floors of blue tile, orange diamonds and stone give each room its own colour.