CoinWeek IQ: How Gold Coins Are Made: Spotlight on the Vienna Philharmonic Gold Coin - 4K Video

in January 2016 the Austrian men gave coin week and precedented access to their inner workings of their state-of-the-art coining facility in Vienna Austria in this video you will see how gold planets are made see a press operator replace a pair broken dies watch the striking of gold Vienna Philharmonic coins and state of the art coin presses and see what the Austrian mints inspection team sees when they look through the glass to make sure that each gold Philharmonic coin they package is absolutely beautiful the Austrian mint is a state of the art money Factory and coin leaks camera and microphones captured the unique sights and sounds of this amazing place you in this room the Austrian mint turns 2200 pounds spools gold and silver metal and a coin blanks using an automated process this Colts pool has an approximate value of 39 million dollars once fed into the machine coin banks are stamped so for or is refined on-site after the blanks are punched air fed into an upsetting machine and then send off to be washed before striking the coin press room is filled with state-of-the-art machinery when we arrived the press was open the dyes have been removed we were fortunate today that we get a chance to see the replacement of a broken dye the immense pressure used to strike coins sometimes causes dice to fail this is a normal part of the coining process when it comes to broken dice the Austrian that leads nothing to chance when one die is broken both dies in the marriage are replaced windows on the side of the coin press allow our camera to capture multiple views of the process once the dye is replaced test strikes are made to inspect the proper installation of the dyes satisfied that the new dyes are installed correctly production resumes coins feed out of the machine one by one at a rate of about one per second the coins are collected on plastic trays which fill up and then are stacked next to the press a technician visually inspects the coins as they come out but closer scrutiny comes in the inspection room the Austrian mint uses a variety of techniques to inspect each Vienna Philharmonic gold coin for quality tissue paper is used to diffuse light inspect for scratches impressive was the large glass used to magnify the coins we position our cameras behind the Austrian its quality control specialist to see what they see and there you have it the 2016 Vienna Philharmonic gold coin made in the heart of Vienna by the Austrian mint

Channel: coinweek

Views: 46,688

Rating: 4.9215684 out of 5

Keywords: Austrian Mint, Vienna Philharmonic Gold Coin, Gold Coins, Austrian Coins, Gold Philharmonic Coin, Gold Bullion, Gold Investing, Coin Collecting

Id: g1c5Gf0ZlC8

Length: 9min 3sec (543 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 27 2016

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This was very enjoyable for me

[u/tbolts10]

Just watched, thanks for sharing.

[u/senator32]

Great work as always Charles!

[u/dontcountmeout]

That was very interesting and also soothing, in a way... Thanks for sharing.

[u/DoaSC]

Really cool! I've been marathoning videos on this channel for a couple days now. Thanks for the great content!

[u/Disabled_gentleman]

Ja, ze German coins are so superior, zey aren't even damaged by zis rough handling.