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Between defending the Trump administration’s tax cuts and imposing sanctions on North Korea, Steven Mnuchin found some time this week for the fun part of being Treasury Secretary.
Mnuchin spent a few hours Thursday touring the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, where as many as 50 million coins a day are produced and shipped around the country. He ran his hands through unstamped pennies and operated a hydraulic press to strike two World War I commemorative coins, hitting two buttons to unleash 210 tons of pressure.