It is also a challenge for this industrial SMEs to State

From 1 to 4 may, the minters from around the world will be meeting in Paris to discuss the future of the money. Manufacturers of parts, in their work, will be drawn into this observation: it took millennia to exceed the truckhouse and that the use of metallic money spread on the surface of the globe. On the other hand it took less than a century only that she dématérialise. Electronics allowed the use of all sorts of dematerialised claims of the credit card cheque soon via mobile phone!

And the operation and control of metals has enabled the development of the coins, printing facilitated the development notes, promissory notes in the first place, then the banknotes and the cheques. Whatever the economic theories, the fundamental responsibility of the currency is, even today, confidence. This need confidence and identity in a too impersonal globalization constitutes the basis for a strategic positioning for the future of this sovereign function which is also an industry. The use of metal parts, beyond the fact that they are national signs, creates a physical, practical, emotional and symbolic report to other means of payment completely dematerialized!

In this context, what is the future of the coin End of January 2005, the Paris Mint began to deliver to the Afghanistan an order for 600 million common currencies. End of January 2006, the Paris Mint should be performed for the Bank of the States of Central Africa (BEAC) initial delivery of an exceptional contract, signed in May 2005, to redo all the cuts of the monetary zone and hit about 1.25 billion pieces. For the first time since its inception twelve centuries ago, the Paris Mint manufactures, both in volume and turnover, for export to the French Treasury! The sovereign function to fight currency has now mainly for foreign States. This development is the implementation of the single currency, the first, came to question the splendid isolation of the European monnayages.

Paradoxically, this mission of State par excellence has a national but international vocation. Is this situation, of course, the introduction of the euro, is due also to the French international monetary strike ambition. At the risk of surprise, the insertion of this sovereign function in world trade of coins is a chance to achieve the reforms of the oldest of the Central Government of the Republic. It is also a challenge for this industrial SMEs to State. The Monnaie de Paris carries out a few years its aggiornamento. In this effort to adapt, international competition is paradoxically a factor of change and modernization, even if it remains for some, and it is natural, a ground of uncertainty and questioning about the future. Let us not forget that competition is an excellent, if not the only prod for not wasting resources by definition rare, and excellence. Who would have thus believed that this institution, created by Charles II in 864 said Charles the bald and crossed the centuries and the regimes, would one day further processing by the international competition and the implementation of the single currency