!!!Hauptpunzierungs- und Probieramt, HPPA

Hauptpunzierungs- und Probieramt (HPPA) (Central Hallmarking and Assay 
Office), Vienna, 2%%sup nd/%  authority and central office of the 
hallmarking offices of Vienna, Linz, Graz and Innsbruck, subordinate 
to the Federal Ministry of Finance. It is concerned with chemical and 
technological testing, particularly of raw materials and products from 
the mining and metallurgical industries, the inorganic chemistry 
industry and precious metal business; control of gold and silver 
coinage (e.g. by the Muenze Oesterreich AG) subject to the law on 
hallmarks; R & D. 1858-1922 the HPPA functioned as the general 
assaying authority (in the minting office), 1922-42 as 
micro-laboratory, in 1942 it was given its current name. In 1947 a 
laboratory was established at the central minting office (now Muenze 
Oesterreich AG).


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