Royal Mint resume minting their own supplementary tokens. In 1672 the Royal Mint finally took over the production of copper coinage. Prior to the outbreak of the English Civil War, England signed a treaty in 1630 with Spain which ensured a steady supply of silver bullion to the Tower mint. Additional branch mints to aid the one in London were set up including one at Aberystwyth Castle, in Wales. In 1642 parliament seized control of the Tower mint and after Charles I tried to arrest the Five Members he was forced to flee London, establishing at least 16 emergency mints across the
Royal Mint (Spain) own cypher and signs. When the peseta became the national currency in 1869, only the Royal Mint in Madrid was in operation. In 1893 the Mint ("Casa de la Moneda") and the Stamp Factory ("Fábrica del Sello"), which so far had been two different establishments sharing a building in Plaza de Colón, merged to create the "Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre". Banknote production for the Bank of Spain began in 1940. A new building came into use in 1964, in which the passport and national identification card were produced. Later, bingo cards and tickets for the state-run lottery were