It also produces medals and security prints (i.e., passports, subway tokens, postage stamps) that are used and issued by government-run service providers.

[3] Engineer Eduardo Castilla was the Casa de Moneda first director,[6] while John Joseph Jolly Kyle was chief chemist.

To do that, Castilla travelled to Paris and hired the renowned engraver Eugenio Mouchón to make the matrix plates of seven banknote values, and the contracting of paper, machines and accessories intended for this purpose.

[3] On September 1, 1927, the Casa de Moneda Museum was inaugurated, with historical banknotes, coins, postal and other stamps, seals, medals, and others.

This change legally authorized the mint to develop activities of an industrial and commercial nature; its constitution and operation were ruled by S.A. procedures.

On the façade, the entrance portal and its tympanum stood out, interrupting the balustrade at the top with a frieze with metopes and triglyphs adorned with bees and lily flowers.

Thus, in 1937 a piece of land was ceded in the filled area of the Río de la Plata coast where the Puerto Nuevo had been built, and in 1939 the construction was authorized by decree 29,158.

It is located at Avenida Antártida Argentina and made in rationalist style (although it has monumentalist neoclassical references, such as the columns of the portico) and has a covered area of 40,913.11 m², with four floors.

It is the work of the architects Quincke, Nin Mitchell and Chute —whose project was chosen by competition in 1939— and was in charge of the construction company Curuchet, Olivera and Giraldez.