Where Are Many Foreign Coins Minted ?

Do you know this site already:

http://www.mintsoftheworld.com/mints.html ?

If the country is not on the list it may mint it's coins abroad. Can't say nothing about Korea tough.

I do believe minting is actually a regular commercial business nowadays. Here in Norway, the Royal Norwegian Mint has been sold off and is now a commercial company called The Norwegian Coinworks. They still mainly make coins and commemorative coins for Norway, but also medals, etc.

The Royal Dutch Mint recently almost went bankrupt due to a troublesome delivery to, I thought, Panama or some country nearby.

I do also know that a lot of Central Asian coins are struck by the St. Petersburg mint in Russia.

Euro coins are even more fun. There's a whole circus around how they are minted, and I'm not sure enough on the details to write the whole process here. It's a fun read and quite interesting if you can find it.

I don't know about which coins are exactly minted in Korea.

@Eurocoin, I find it surprising that every country on the list actually has its own mint.

The order of Malta has a mint? How could a small organization afford to maintain a mint, with such small numbers minted?

I am also sceptical that Fiji has its own mint. Its coins look so much like those from Australia-they look like they are minted there. All the mint marks listed in Krause are outside of Fiji?