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Every Super Bowl begins with a coin toss -- And that coin is made right here in Central Florida.

Brevard County’s Highland Mint is making the coin you’ll see tossed at the start of Super Bowl 47.

For the Melbourne-based company, this time of year is super. It's the time of year for the NFL's championship game.

“As we like to say, the game doesn't start without our coin,” said Highland Mint President Michael Kott.

In the days leading up to the big event, workers were busy making, cleaning and creating Super Bowl commemorative coins.

“What's special about this coin is that it's actually used in the game. Most of the time on TV, they show the coin toss and it's the exact coin you can purchase,” explained Kott.

The company will make 10,000 coins in all this year, putting the spotlight on the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers.

Fifty go to the NFL, for the owners, players and others.

The remaining 9,950 can be yours for $99.

“The first one is numbered one, we send it to the NFL, the other ones, same production, same dye, same everything, gets reproduced,” said Kott.

Highland Mint employee Hope Hazard puts on the finishing touches for the coin displays with pride in her hometown company. “It's really cool we get to do it in town, and then get to see it on television,” said Hazard.

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The Highland Mint commemorative, 1.5-inch diameter coin, not only will be used in the coin flip but also goes to the Pro Football Hall of Fame as part of its Super Bowl XLVII display. The remaining 99 coins of the first 100 coins pressed are given to players and NFL dignitaries.

The coins, made of silver with gold highlights, usually sell out, but with more popular teams with bigger fan bases, Kott sometimes also can sell special framed packages that might include a Super Bowl program, a piece of the turf, or a section of one of the game footballs.

Since opening its doors nearly a quarter-century ago, the privately held Highland Mint has been building up a sports commemorative company that makes coins and other products for all major sporting events and theme parks like Disney and Universal.

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super-bowl-commemorative-coins/1883045/)

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