Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato

On 27 December 1911, the Italian mint was officially inaugurated by king Victor Emmanuel III in the seat located in via Principe Umberto, on the Esquiline. But in 1907, Victor Emmanuel founded the Scuola dell'Arte della Medaglia (SAM) ('School of the Art of Medalmaking') in the old location of the mint. The school trained new artists about carving and modelling techniques and its attendants would later manufacture real coins: it is still nowadays a unique example in the world of didactic and creative formation inside a mint.

In 1928, the Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato ('State Polygraphic Institute') was established and in 1978 acquired the mint section, under president Rosario Lanza, becoming the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato. In 1982, it became the first mint to manufacture bi-metallic coins through a patented process. In 2025, it was announced that the IPZS would produce the Olympic medals for the 2026 Winter Olympics and 2026 Winter Paralympics.

Legal–administrative services and web-based products

In keeping with the open-government objectives set by the national legislative and policy framework, IPZS carries out the following activities to disseminate public-source information of a legal, administrative, cultural, and scientific nature:

development and management of the computerized process for the production and distribution of the Gazzetta Ufficiale (in print and online);

development and operation of the "Normattiva" service, which provides free online access to all Italian legislation with multi-version (consolidated) texts from 1861 to the present, with the database updated daily to reflect amendments to legislative acts;

management of web services dedicated to the dissemination of public-source information;

development and management of services for the acquisition, collection, editing, and metadata tagging of information relating to legal-legislative topics;

editing and production of editorial works under the "Libreria dello Stato" imprint;