The U.S. Mint buys strips of metal about 13 inches wide and 1,500 feet long to manufacture
the nickel, dime, quarter, half-dollar, and dollar. The strips come rolled in a coil. Each
coil is fed through a blanking press which punches out round discs called
blanks. The leftover strip, called webbing is chopped and recycled. (To
manufacture the cent, the Mint buys blanks ready made for stamping after
supplying fabricators with copper and zinc.)
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