Jeff Brady/ NPR For all coins but pennies, the metal arrives at the Denver Mint on huge spools that are fed into a machine that punches out coins like a cookie cutter. Pennies come to the mint pre-cut.
When I visited the RCM in Winnipeg I saw these types of rolls. They have a lot of steel, but also other metals for various customer (other country) coins. It was pretty cool - and those rolls are pretty heavy. Nice pic.
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copper spools at the U.S. Mint
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