Video: Packaging Robots At The United States Mint At Denver

Excellent!

I guess this will dispel the notion that each and every minted coin is lovingly moved by hand from the striking chamber and nestled into its intended packaging.

Cool. Thats one small step for robots...One giant leap for robotkind. I just miss the days of human error as error coins were always fun.




Around 2012 I remember they were starting to use robots to put the coins in such as this link from 2014 I posted before so it seems to have been awhile this has been happening. Several videos are in the link you may enjoy. https://www.coinnews.net/2014/01/20...d-coin-sets/

an error can happen when there are wrong coins such as two of one coin and missing another has happened or missing a coin entirely. In 2022 there was yet another attempt to change the packaging to help with keeping coins in place after placement also but that caused some issues https://www.coinnews.net/2022/08/01...culated-set/




Lol. No issue there to collect how you enjoy especially as you don't tend to collect and part with things for potential value usually. Depends what your goals are really. If you are first and foremost a collector rather than someone looking for investment, or someone who has bought high quality Dansco albums rather than cheap folders and has goals of filling them, then it makes great sense to go ahead and crack out coins to fill your album...

The only thing I can think of is that all the cracking out could potentially make sets (or coins) still in original packaging scarce over time, but this is probably not a consideration for sets with so many millions out there.

Now if you are more into the value/investment/selling aspect of coin buying and selling, then you need to consider also that removing coins from slabs or sets can potentially hurt their value when selling in some cases when the individual coins don't have a lot of value on its own, and a small possibility to reduce its condition over time depending on the quality of the album used, further exposure to the environment etc.

Interesting short video.

Question - does anyone really believe that the supposedly dedicated and quality conscious inspector shown at the end really spends that 10 seconds or so carefully inspecting both sides of each set?

I imagine it's something like that. Otherwise you'd need a small army of inspectors.

US Mint reports 165,583 2023 UNC sets sold (and likely many more produced). Just using the sales data, if an inspector spent 10 seconds on each set that's easy math right there... 1,655,830 seconds. Divided by 360 = 4,600 hours. Divide that by 365 days/year and you get 12.6 hours EVERY DAY just spent on inspecting this one set.

And the 2022 set was closer to 249k sold.

The Cylons were created by man. They evolved. They rebelled. There are many copies. And they have a plan.

Perhaps they want the more profitable products released first in the event there is another world crisis that shuts them down for the rest of the year.