Perhaps:
The government has minted new coins and issued new banknotes.
I have no idea what the other one means.
Do you mean an official seal? That was a sort of engraved stamp which was put into melted wax which then dried.
This is the Google Images hit for the kind of seal/stamp I'm talking about.
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