Inside Massive US Coin Factory Producing Billions Of American Coins Every Year

Inside massive US coin factory producing billions of American coins every year Some of the coins in your pocket can cost more to make than the value printed on them. It sounds ridiculous, but producing something this small requires an enormous industrial process. Metal is heated, rolled into massive coils, punched into thousands of blanks, and struck under tremendous pressure. Inside U.S. coin factories, metal coils stretching up to 1,500 feet long are punched into as many as 14,000 coin blanks every minute So how are millions of separate pieces of metal turned into coins that look almost exactly the same? Today, join Mido Explained as we step inside the U.S. Mint to find out. 00:00 Introduction 00:49 Overview 02:15 From metal coils to coin blanks 03:53 Annealing the coin blanks 04:52 Cooling and cleaning the blanks 06:03 Upsetting and finishing the blanks 07:12 Striking the coins 08:34 Inspecting and handling defective coins 09:25 Counting, weighing, and bagging 10:06 Storage and distribution 11:11 Conclusion