I recently toured the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. Here are some of the photos that were taken during the tour. They show different stages of the minting process. I wanted to share the tour with the readers of Mint Error News Magazine.

Blanks stuck at bottom of “trap door” bin
How Off-Metals can be struck



Feeder Finger with State Quarter


Cent Blank Planchets being fed up into Feeder Mechanism to be struck


Coin bin with freshly struck State Quarters


Riddler “bouncing” coins to filter out errors


Ballistic Bag Operation




Quarter Planchet Strip before punching operation


Schuler Press