HOW ARE COINS MADE?
The u.s. Mint buys strips of metal about 13 inches wide and 1,500 feet long to manufacture the nickel, dime, quarter, half-dollar, and dollar. The strips come rolled in a coil. Each coil is fed through a blanking press, which punches out round discs called blanks. The leftover strip, called webbing, is shredded and recycled (to manufacture the cent, the Mint buys ready-made blanks after supplying fabricators with copper and zinc.)
"The blanks are heated in an annealing furnace to soften them. Then, they are run through a washer and dryer."http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0854844.html
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