In the 22nd year of Guangxu (1896), Liu Kunyi, governor of the two rivers, based on the suggestion of the Ministry of Housing, started to build the Jiangnan General Administration of Silver Coin Making at Xiafuqiao in Nanjing, and ordered the Preventive Bureau to borrow 82,000 yuan of silver to demarcate the south bank of Yuntai Gate in Xishuiguan, Jiangning (Nanjing), and to build the East Silver Coin Foundry Factory and the West Copper Coin Foundry Factory. The following autumn, the construction of two factories was completed.

1904, the name of the factory was changed to "Jiangnan Household Mint Branch", and the Shanghai and Yangzhou bureaus were placed under it. 1905 added a copper casting section and renamed it "Jiangnan Silver, Copper and Dollar General Administration". 1906 was renamed as "Jiangsu Jiangning Household Coin Factory". Xuantong Yuannian (1909) tried to cast a one-dollar silver coin, which was the first set of value-based coins in China.

1 91265438+1October1,Sun Yat-sen was appointed President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of China in Nanjing. The Minister of Finance renamed Nanjing Factory as "Mint General Factory of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of China". In May, Nanjing Mint General Factory issued a one-dollar silver coin to commemorate the founding father of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with the portrait of Sun on the front and the words "Republic of China". In August, we started casting "20 cent gold coins and 20 cent silver coins, 1000 silver coins and 10 gold coins for submission to the Ministry of Finance". The gold commemorative coin set up in People's Republic of China (PRC) weigh 9.6 grams and has a diameter of 23 mm.. The commemorative gold coins minted in Nanjing are the first time in the history of minting coins in China. 19 13 was renamed "Jiangnan Mint of the Ministry of Finance". 1927, after Nanjing was designated as the capital by the National Government, the Nanjing Mint changed the statue of Sun Yat-sen into a silver dollar.

After 1929, the mint has been vacant. After the founding of New China, there was a weighing and metering factory here, and 1952 was changed to Nanjing No.1 Machinery Factory, and 1958 was changed to Nanjing No.2 Machine Tool Factory.