3.2.3. Start-Up Tests and First Minting

With the arrival of the equipment in June 1585, and the team of technicians that travelled with it, the installation of the machinery in the SRMF facility began, quickly followed by start-up tests and the first minting (shown in Table 1).


#### **Table 1.** Summary of the start-up tests and first minting (from [9], p. 101).

Once the operation procedure was implemented and refined, the members of Hall Mint proceeded to transfer their knowledge to local personnel. Their technology was replicated in all the minting factories and abandoned in the period 1660–1664. Only the rolling process persisted through the transition of the coining press into flywheel presses [9].
