The blank planchets are not made at the Mint, which hasn't had the production capacity for this stage of the minting process since the budget cuts of 1981.

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It allocates an unusually large proportion of the budget to wages, and runs small production lines for airline headsets and aluminium windows.

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Geddes for news operations, including the production of the newspaper and oversight of the budget.

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