Making Money the Hard Way

March 17, 2023 Hosted by Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig

The US Mint Denver produces 30 million coins a day. Denes, the tooling department manager, discusses with us how production at this scale functions.

Denes Szabo

Denes was born and raised in Colorado. His parents owned a machine shop where Denes worked from a young age till 50. Denes now runs the tooling department at the US Mint Denver.

Topics

  • What is the process of getting US currency made?
    • Making changes and updates?
    • How does this differ from other currencies?
  • What goes into creating the tooling?
    • Materials
    • Files for creating the tools
    • How are they approved
  • Quality controls on currency manufacturing
  • Producing at scale
  • Inventory and Logistics

Hosts: Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig

Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!