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It’s pretty amazing to think that Brevard County has played a role in the last 24 Super Bowls. And it will again on Feb. 4 to make it No. 25.

A Brevard-made product is there from the very start when the referee flips the coin and asks one of the team captains to call “heads” or “tails” to decide who gets the ball first.

Of course it's the Highland Mint, the Melbourne company that makes the coin used in the opening toss for the Super Bowl. A company line is: “'The game doesn't start without us.”

There's another important role the coin plays. Because we’re a betting society and wager on just about any detail of the Super Bowl, millions of dollars are exchanged in Las Vegas on the outcome of that opening toss.

The flip coin, which is about the size of a silver dollar, ends up in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. The remaining 99 coins of the first 100 coins pressed are given to players and NFL dignitaries. The rest — about 9,900 — are sold to the public.

To read the complete article, see:
Melbourne company Highland Mint continues to flip out over its role in the Super Bowl (https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2018/01/26/melbourne-company-continues-flip-out-over-its-role-upcoming-super-bowl/1066858001/)