Mint

Mint
Building Requirements	Nearby source of Gold or Silver
Production Cost	100
Unlocked at	Currency

The Mint is a building available in the Classical Era.

Game Info

Building a Mint requires a source of Gold or Silver near the city.

• +2 Gold from Gold and Silver

With Social Policies / Tenets:

• Mercantilism (Commerce): +1 Science
• Capitalism (Freedom): +1 Happiness

Overview

A mint is an institution that creates a civilization's currency. In the past this would tend to be metal currency in the form of coins, but in modern times much of the world's currency is printed on paper. Mints are extremely important to a civilization's economic well-being. If a nation's currency is easily forged, it will be, and confidence in that nation's money supply will plummet, resulting in dangerous inflation (the perceived value of the currency declines) or worse. Modern money is printed with holograms, variable ink and security threads to deter counterfeiters, and no doubt additional features will be added as the forgers figure out how to copy those.

Unique Building Replacements

Icon	Building	Civilization	Yields
	Bayith	Canaan (Adonizedek)	Does not require Gold or Silver. Each Bonus Resource yields +1 Faith and +1 Gold. City Religious Pressure increases Trade Route range.
	Fur Depot	Hudson's Bay Company (George Simpson)	Requires Furs, Deer or Bison. +2 Gold to each resource. +1 Gold from International Trade Routes for each Luxury Resource nearby. When built on a continent for the first time, grants a Trade Route slot.
	Mazmorra	Tétouan (Sayyida al-Hurra)	Does not require Gold or Silver nearby. Generates Gold equal to Production provided by captives brought to this City. Naval Units in this city cost 15% less.
	Metalsmith	The Gauls (Vercingetorix)	Can be built with sources of Copper, Iron, or Aluminum +2% Gold for every Mine
	Mynet	Kent (Aethelbert)	Grants +2 Gold and +1 Faith for every Gold, Silver and Copper being worked. Grants Gold whenever you purchase an unit or a building with Faith. No terrain requirements
	Raffia Mill	Kongo (Nzinga)	Grants 1 copy of Raffia +2 Gold from Dyes Requires Jungle instead of Gold or Silver +20% Production Cost
	Rock-cut Tomb	Nabataea (Aretas III)	Greatly boosts the range and Gold yields of land trade routes. Must be built on or next to Desert
	Royal Mint	Persia (Darius I)(When The Achaemenids (Cyrus II) are installed)	Can be built without any resources When the Capital possesses this building, Trade Routes to other Persian Cities leaving the Capital contribute Production to Royal Mints in the destination City, and provide Happiness bonuses once completed
	Royal Silversmith	The Indo-Greeks (Menander I)	+1 Culture and +2 Faith if this City is connected to the Capital, and an additional +1 Culture for every nearby city connected to the Capital (up to +3). Each source of Gold and Silver worked by this City produces +2 Gold.
	Silversmith	The Iceni (Boudicca)	+2 Culture
	Treasury	Mali (Mansa Musa)	+2 Gold from Salt No terrain requirement Grants Golden Age points based on total Gold reserves
	Yácata	The Tarascans (Tariácuri)	Requires a source of either Iron, Copper, Silver, or Gold Yields +3 Production during We Love The King Day
	Zongting	Lanfang (Luo Fangbo)	Unlocked at Iron Working +1 Production on Gold Resources for every 2 Social Policy Branches adopted City must have a source of Gold