The Royal Dutch Mint (Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt, abbreviated KNM) based in Utrecht, the Netherlands, is a company owned by Heimerle + Meule.

On 17 September 1806, when The Netherlands were under the rule of King Louis Napoleon, he decided that the striking and distribution of coins should be by a single, national body.

After Napoleon was defeated in 1813, and the Kingdom of the Netherlands was founded with William I as King, the Mint was renamed as 's Rijks Munt.

[4] At the end of the German occupation during the Second World War, in 1944, coins were produced in the United States.

The Royal Dutch Mint was also delegated the task of destroying the old guilders after their replacement by the euro in 2002.