DENVER — Twenty machines each churn out 750 shiny pennies a minute inside the U.S. Mint’s stately 1904 building in the heart of this city’s downtown.

FILE PHOTO: Gold bars, each weighing 275 pounds, are on display at the U.S. Mint in Denver Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022. About 1,400 pounds of gold are stored at the mint. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock) ...

Once a Mint facility gets the blanks, it doesn't take long to turn them into coins. According to its "Coin Production" page, one circulating coin press strikes 750 coins per minute.

DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said on X that eliminating the penny, which happens to account for most of the coins produced at the Denver Mint, could mean saving millions of dollars ...