HOW COINS ARE MADE?

The first step is called as blanking. The U.S. Mint buys strips of metal about

13 inches wide and 1,500 feet long to manufacture the nickel, dime, quarter, half dollar, and dollar. The strips come rolled in a coil. Each coil is fed through a blanking press, which punches out round discs calle d blanks. The leftover strip, called webbing, is shredded and recycled. (To manufacture the cent, the Mint buys ready made blanks after supplying fabricators with copper and zinc).
Secondly , they continue the process called annealing, washing and drying.

The blanks are heated in an annealing furnace to soften them. Then, they are run through a washer and dryer. After that, they riddled the blank. The shiny blanks are sorted on a riddler to screen out any that are the wrong size or shape. Next, the good blanks go through an upsetting mill. This raises a rim around their edges.
Then, the blanks go to the coining press. Here, they are stamped with the

designs and inscriptions, which make them genuine United States coins. Before the counting process, press operator uses a magnifying glass to spot-check each batch of new coins. Then all the coins go through a coin sizer to remove any misshapen or dented ones.
Finally , an automatic counting machine counts the coins and drops them into

large canvas bags. The bags are sewn shut, loaded on pallets, and taken by forklifts to be stored in vaults. At last, new coins are shipped by truck to Federal Reserve Banks. From there, the coins go to your local bank!

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Mint coin factory Coil a length of strips arranged into a series of circle Shredded cut or tear something roughly into thin strips Annealing making metal soft by heating and then cooling it softly