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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2104775, member: 66&quot;]The planchets and finished coins are transported around the mint in large tote bins.&nbsp; Take a bin filled with finished dimes, empty it.&nbsp; Sometimes a few coins will get stuck in the seams of the bin or in the edges of the tote bin door.&nbsp; Now fill the bin with cent planchets.&nbsp; These planchets dislodge one of the struck dimes from a seam and it gets mixed in with the cent planchets.&nbsp; The planchets get dumped into the feed hopper of the cent press.&nbsp; Being slightly smaller than a cent the struck dime passes through the feed tubes, the feed fingers can accept it so gets fed into the coining chamber and is struck by the cent dies creating the 11 cent piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope that explains it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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