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Inside the U.S. Mint

49 minutes, 51 seconds

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Closeup of a coin sorting basin that is filled to the top by a pipe dropping coins into it. Caption. All the coins come here to be counted.

Describes the process of minting U.S. coins: creating and selecting their designs, finding correct metals, creating new dies, striking and inspecting new coins. Features the gold-refining process for the Canadian gold Maple Leaf and the enormously complex problems faced when replacing the national currencies of Europe with the new Euro-dollar.

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Runtime: 49 minutes, 51 seconds

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