Video - How Coins Are Made - For Kids

I believe this would be a good and simple video to show the newbies how coins are made.
They really need to educate themselves on the process.

I want to share this YouTube video..


I wish I could find a video I once saw on how Mint Marks are added to the Die.. There are new collectors who actually think the Mint Marks are actually hand stamped onto each coin

 

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Good video ! Or Minty fresh .

 

You mean they're not?! Looks like I'll be throwing all these W mint marks back into circulation. Not hand stamped? What junk.

 

Cool Vid. Thanks for posting.

 

durn I was hoping to land that job hand stamping the mint mark on each coin too. Oh well back to my bid on being the next President of USA.

 

They were, until 1989.

 

Did you understand what I meant? Some new collectors think that each Mint Mark was added onto each individual coin one at a time after the coin was minted!
That would of taken eons to do so!

 

Would take a very find hand with a soldering torch

 

If you listen carefully you can hear p98 playing kazoo in the background...

 

Gotta ask...still a kid I guess...but after the heating process "to make the planchets softer"...doesn't the washing/drying plus the rim edging process cool them off/back to where they were, still before striking...?

 

@paddyman98 I agree that many "collectors" need to watch that video, or others on the official mint site. Thanks for posting.

 

Yep. The thing about annealing metal is that both the temperature you heat it to AND the speed of cooling matter. Here's an example

Bench Jeweler: Library: Articles: Annealing Gold, Silver, and Platinum (stuller.com)

 

Yes, but the planchets after being heated, cooled and upset, are still softer than they were before they were annealed. (The rolling of the metal into the strip work hardens it. So the planchets are annealed before striking to make them softer.)