The U.S. Mint: How Coins Are Made

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The following quiz will test your knowledge about the U.S. Mint and how coins are made. Good luck!

  1. Who has to vote to issue a new coin?

    2. Your answer:
    The American people
    The President of the U.S.
    Congress

  2. U.S. Mint facilities are located in all of the following cities EXCEPT:

    3. Your answer:
    Philadelphia, PA
    Denver, CO
    Chicago, IL

  3. After artists draw the design of the coin, what happens next?

    4. Your answer:
    Sculptors make a clay model of the coin
    The design is photocopied onto metal disks.
    The drawing is engraved by hand onto plain metal sheets

  4. In minting, dies are

    5. Your answer:
    tiny metal copies of the original coin model
    large plastic models of the coin
    sketch drawings of the design

  5. Before the coins are engraved, the blank metal disks are prepared. Which of the following is NOT a step in this process?

    6. Your answer:
    heating
    painting
    cooling

  6. The upsetting mill

    7. Your answer:
    tosses the coins around and around
    raises a rim on both sides of the coin
    heats the coins

  7. George Washington was the first Director of the Mint.

    8. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  8. Coins are hand counted and loaded into jumbo bags for shipment to Federal Reserve Banks.

    9. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  9. The forklift operator is moving a jumbo bag filled with 9,816 quarters. How much money is in the bag?

    10. Your answer:
    About $25,000
    About $250
    About $2,500

  10. After the round blanks are punched out of the metal strip in the blanking press, the leftover metal is recycled.

    11. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

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