www.mint.ca
After my two business meetings today, I had ~2 hours to kill; what better way than see how Canada makes their coins. I drove 10 minutes from hotel and bam, there is this very unusual building. The Winnipeg mint was built back in 1976 with over 160k sq ft in a glass, almost pyramid style building. As you drive up, a majestic parade of flags of all the countries that work with the Mint surround your vehicle; I almost stopped and saluted ole Glory, the US Flag.
I made it in time for their tour and was pleased to see lots of behind the scenes view of coin minting for several countries (not just Canada). Strange, but all circulation coinage for Canada is produced here in Winnipeg; 20 million a day. Glad to hear Canada is finally killing minting their penny coin; stopped April of this year. Now, if they could just do something with all their other coins; heavy focus/use of coinage up here. Interesting visit.
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