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Still, it's not a huge industry. There are between 5,000 and 10,000 blacksmiths in the U.S., and of those, only about 10 percent do it professionally â they make things like custom railings or artistic hardware for homes. Back in the classroom, Scott Higgins is learning to punch a hole in metal.
To see a complete schedule of when each state's quarter will be issued, see this page. The mint publishes production figures on this page. These figures indicate that the mint produces something like 300 million to 350 million quarters every month.