Soho mint was established by Matthew Boulton in 1789 . It underwent an up gradation by adding vacuum pipe directly linked with Steam Engine in 1798. This mint  stop striking coins in 1813 by the order of Matthew Robinson Boulton. The Mint was then sold to East India Company for establishing a mint in Bombay in 1821. In 1826  Matthew Robinson Boulton  established  another manual mint at smaller scale .This mint got its Steam engine in 1831.

Soho mint  was sold  in 1850, when it was closed  down in1848. Ralph Heaton the new owner of Soho equipment started  the Birmingham Mint with Soho equipment in  jewellery quarter.

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