U.S. Mint Denver 1949 (film)

baddogss

Found this film of the Denver mint 1949 on You Tube



Denver mint 1949

OldEastside

That's pretty cool

Steve

LindeDad

Dang that makes a lot of dimes.

AUandAG

Nice air conditioned workplace I'll bet!!



bob

BAJJERFAN

Originally posted by: AUandAG

Nice air conditioned workplace I'll bet!!



bob

Probably lots of folks with respiratory issues in their later years too!

Kccoin

Very cool to see the sweat that went into our money. Do you think the workers were paid in coin, or at least had the option?

3keepSECRETif2rDEAD

Cool video!

...so that's where all the 64d Peace dollars went

Kccoin

Originally posted by: 3keepSECRETif2rDEAD

Cool video!



...so that's where all the 64d Peace dollars went

ricko

Neat video.... I wonder if they swept and reclaimed the filings from the large ingots?

Cheers, RickO

CaptHenway

Way kewl!

baddogss

Originally posted by: ricko

Neat video.... I wonder if they swept and reclaimed the filings from the large ingots?

Cheers, RickO

Pretty sure they did/would. I thought I read some where that the canvas bags used for gold would be burned to recover the gold dust/filings. Bob

epcjimi1

Originally posted by: LindeDad
Dang that makes a lot of dimes.

The width of that strip ain't no dime, unless the US Mint was insanely inefficient. Gotta be $0.50 cent piece, MHO

edit - the basket dump is not dimes

edit edit - DCarrs press is probably in this vid, maybe

baddogss

epc ... you may be right about Dan Carr's press being used.

I didn't think of that. That would be way cool. Bob

SanctionII

Interesting how slender the workers are. Same with photos and film of WWII soliders. In general people are much heavier yoday.

epcjimi1

Originally posted by: SanctionII
Interesting how slender the workers are. Same with photos and film of WWII soliders. In general people are much heavier yoday.

My 88 year old mom says the thing. Coming from a farm background, everyone was skinny, bacon and eggs breakfast was standard, today, it's unheard of.

CaptHenway

I would say that the pictures near the end showed a variety of denominations being blanked. The basket dump looked like halves, whereas the blanked strips being stacked look like quarters to me. However, I will not swear to either.



The fact that the blanked strips coming out of the blanking mill were chopped off at regular intervals was new to me. It would make sense that they would do this to make it easier to recycle the webbing back into the furnace, but I just never heard it mentioned anywhere.



TD