The Italian
Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato (trans.
State Mint and Polygraphic Institute), founded in 1928, is situated at the Piazza Giuseppe Verdi in
Rome. As well as producing coins, passports and postage stamps for
Italy, it serves the
micro-states of the
Vatican City and
San Marino as well as the
Sovereign Military Order of Malta, widely considered a sovereign subject of international law.