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The NorthWest Detroit Coin Club, of Livonia, got a special up close and behind the scenes tour of the SilverTowne Mint, in Winchester, In. Club members got to see employees pour hot pure silver into molds, and how silver becomes silver coins and bars. They toured the smelting plant and back storage rooms, which includes a vault with $15m in gold and silver and another vault like area that contains mint and proof sets. Members then were able to visit the enameling room, the graphic arts room and finally the showroom where they could buy some of what they had seen created.

.999 pure silver Buffalo rounds - SilverTowne Mint makes them and sells them, at their company show room in Winchester, In. The SilverTowne Mint also sells on their cable show - Coin Vault, and they specialize in Challenge and Commemorative coins. Tours can be pre arranged for groups. Visit SilverTowne at www.silvertownemint.com / or mintsales@silvertowne.com

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WANTED !!...SilverTowne Mint executives are looking for these four (4) guys...(Sitting) Ronald Beier - Northville, (L) Gary Kelly - Canton, Don Charters - Wayne, and Curtis Scott - Garden City. They want to know Why? - after they touched and were photographed with these newly minted Buffalo 1oz, .999 silver rounds - that were worth $40.27 each, Tuesday (9-20-11), after the NorthWest Detroit Coin Club (NWDCC) (Livonia) member tour, are now worth only $36.25 - on Thursday (9-22-11). The NWDCC members got an tour of the factory and Mint. The SilverTowne Mint is in Winchester, In, and specializes in Challenge and Commemorative coins. The NWDCC meets every 2nd & 4th Tuesday of the Month, at the Livonia Senior Center, Farmington Rd - Five Mile Rd, and everyone is welcome - if you have a coin collection bring it in for appraisal.

pure silver Buffalo rounds, worth $40.25 ea (9/20/11) during their road trip to the SilverTowne Mint, in Winchester, In. Members got an up close and behind the scenes tour of the smelting plant, vaults and special rooms - that visitors never get to see. They ended the tour in the showroom, where members could buy their Made In America coin items, that they had seen made. The Club meets every 2nd & 4th Tuesday of the Month, at the Livonia Senior Center ( Farmington - Five Mile Road) at 7pm - everyone is welcome, coin collectors or not and if you have a coin collection, bring it in for apprasial.

Creative genius...Steve Graft, is a dye designer for SilverTowne Mint, in Winchester, In. He is one of the staff artists, that creates the images that appear on the Mint silver rounds, challenge and commemorative coins that are sold world wide on the Mint's cable TV show, Coin Vault, the internent and at the SilverTowne Mint showroom, which is open to the public. Graft is cutting a dragon - for a 2012 Year of the Dragon coin, for a custom order.

Members of the NorthWest Detroit Coin Club got a special tour of SilveTowne and a chance to see how a coin is created, minted and sold, along with a behind the scenes tour of the Mint.

Opening doors...Kristen Fields (L) and Nikki Cox (R) open doors for members of the NorthWest Detroit Coin Club (Livonia, Mi) who got an up close and behind the scenes tour of the smelting plant, vaults and special rooms - that visitors never get to see. They ended the tour in the showroom, where members could buy their Made In America coin items, that they had seen made. The tour was a special pre-arranged tour.

SilverTowne is located in Winchester, In, and specializes in Challenge and Commemorative coins. They also due custom minting in gold, silver and bronze.

Hot silver 1200 - 1300 degrees...Trent Cross pours unrefined silver into molds, that when cooled, will be sent to a refiner to create, .999 pure silver. Members of the NorthWest Detroit Coin Club (Livonia, Mi) got a special pre-arranged tour of the SilverTown Mint, located in Winchester, In. The Mint specializes in Challenge and Commemorative coins but also makes a variety of other items using gold, silver, copper, brass and nickel silver. SilverTowne also has a huge showroom that sells their Made in America products.

Kristen Fields, (R) of SilverTowne Mint, shows off a TV order form, to members of the NorthWest Detroit Coin Club (Livonia, Mi) during their special pre arranged tour of the Mint and the behind the scenes work that goes on to create, make and sell coins. SilverTowne sells their coin products on cable TV. SilverTowne also sells on the internet and eBay, but to get a tour and a chance to buy their Made in America products was a thrill to club members.

Hot hot hot....up to 2000 degrees, Caleb Abel, a melter for the SilverTowne Mint, pours .999 pure silver into a caster that makes a silver strip, that will eventually become a one (1) ounce bar of pure silver. SilverTowne is located in Winchester, In, and has a showroom that will please any coin collector, and it has special - pre arranged tours. SilverTowne specializes in Challenge and Commemorative coins and also makes a variety of other silver coins. Members of the NorthWest Detroit Coin Club took a tour of the facility recently.