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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;karrlot, post: 180560, member: 4476&quot;]I took a tour of the Denver mint in the mid 80&#039;s.&nbsp; All I remember seeing is a huge hopper of cents.&nbsp; </p><p>Three years ago we wnt to Colorado for Christmas, but you could only take a tour if you were sponsered by a Congressman.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Last year at Christmas, we went to Colorado for the Holidays, but I didn&#039;t realize that the tours filled up so fast.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t make&nbsp; reservations soon enough, so I couldn&#039;t get in to see it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This year, I made reservations in June for December 28th of this year.&nbsp; We were out in Colorado right after a blizzard.&nbsp; On the night of the 27th, the weather forcast was predicting another blizzard.&nbsp; My lovely wife said - pack up, we&#039;re heading home!&nbsp; So we took off across the state of Kansas.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s always next year....</p><p><br /></p><p>Last year, when I went to the mint to try to go on a tour, we went into the gift shop.&nbsp; All they had was a bunch of crap - like bags of shreded bills, beverage coasters like huge coins, t-shirts.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>They did have a vending machine that dispensed state quarters.&nbsp; I thought that was pretty cool. </p><p><br /></p><p>One cool thing - when we were leaving, we walked around the building and there was a loading dock that had a HUGE roll of metal on it.&nbsp; Maybe 5 feet in diameter and 8&#039; long.&nbsp; You could see that it was two-tone silver and copper.&nbsp; I assume it was for making the planchets for quarters or dimes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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