While the video is geared toward young collectors, the general process of designing and producing coins is something any coin fan would enjoy.
The video isn’t your average numismatic overview, as it is quite interactive and engaging. Keeping with the theme of fun videos, the United States Mint has released an animated video on designing coins. The video above offers a look inside a vending machine. 'If you’re not shaped like a quarter and built like a quarter, you ain’t a quarter in their book.'
'Vending machines use light sensors to measure the size of a coin and electromagnets to detect the metal type to determine what kind of coin it is,' Chan writes.
