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FEATURED WEB SITE: HOW COINS ARE MADEThis week's Featured Web Site is is a section of the U.S. Mint site describing how coins are made. It walks through the Blanking, Annealing, Upsetting, Striking, Inspecting, and Counting and Bagging processes, using cute animated .gifs for illustration.Making millions of coins every day is a complex process. People and machines have to work together smoothly. A tour through the United States Mint at Philadelphia or Denver to witness this process is well worth the visit. But if you can't make the trip, here are some online alternatives.  www.usmint.gov/circulating_coins/indexc526-2.html?action=coinsWayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@gmail.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum All Rights Reserved. NBS Home Page Contact the NBS webmaster 
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