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Money Trail: A $17.9 million United States Mint metal order went to Wieland Rolled Products North America on October 6
USAspending records for October 2 to 8, 2026 show a $17,876,251.20 delivery order to WIELAND ROLLED PRODUCTS NORTH AMERICA, LLC from the Department of the Treasury United States Mint for base metal strip and freight.
Key takeaways
- The Department of the Treasury, through the United States Mint, obligated $17,876,251.20 to WIELAND ROLLED PRODUCTS NORTH AMERICA, LLC on October 6, 2026, under delivery order 2031JG27F70148.
- The award description covers base metal strip and freight for Mint coin production, listed in the record as Mint MAC base metal strip.
- The action was the largest Department of the Treasury contract transaction in the October 2 to 8 window, ahead of a $14,728,410.00 Mint coil order to PMX INDUSTRIES, INC. on the same day.
What the record shows
The transaction is listed in USAspending as a delivery order with an action date of October 6, 2026. The awarding agency is the Department of the Treasury and the awarding sub agency is the United States Mint. The federal action obligation recorded for the transaction is $17,876,251.20.
The award description reads: base metal strip and freight, Mint MAC base metal strip. In plain terms, the Mint buys rolled metal strip from suppliers and turns that strip into coin blanks, the round pieces that are then stamped into circulating coins. An order for base metal strip is a production input purchase, the metal itself plus the cost of shipping it to the Mint. The figure is an obligation, meaning funds committed under the contract action, not a single payment made on October 6.
How it compares
In the October 2 to 8 window, the Department of the Treasury recorded $70,024,106.05 in contract obligations across 77 transactions. The Wieland Rolled Products North America action is about 25.5 percent of that total. Two Mint metal orders together, Wieland at $17,876,251.20 and PMX Industries at $14,728,410.00, account for about 46.6 percent of the Treasury total for the week. The next largest Treasury actions were two Bureau of Engraving and Printing currency paper orders to CRANE AND CO., INC. of $10,479,176.00 and $8,769,414.40, both dated October 7, 2026.
Department of Defense contract data is largely absent from the USAspending feed for this period, a reporting gap flagged in the source data, so department rankings for the week exclude meaningful Defense figures.
Data vintage: USAspending contract transactions with action dates from October 2 to 8, 2026, pulled October 13, 2026.
Sources
1. USAspending.gov award record, $17,876,251.20 delivery order to WIELAND ROLLED PRODUCTS NORTH AMERICA, LLC: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_2031JG27F70148_2044_2031JG23D00001_2044/
2. U.S. Department of the Treasury, Fiscal Data, Debt to the Penny dataset: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/debt-to-the-penny/debt-to-the-penny
Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Daily Treasury Statement, September 28, 2026; Debt to the Penny.
Sources and methodology
Methodology. Daily cash figures are from the U.S. Treasury’s Daily Treasury Statement (DTS) for September 28, 2026, the government’s official daily cash-flow report. The DTS records money actually moving in and out of Treasury accounts; it is not the same as the budget deficit, which is measured monthly on an accrual-adjusted basis.
- U.S. Department of the Treasury, Daily Treasury Statement – operating cash balance, September 28, 2026 (fiscaldata.treasury.gov)
- U.S. Department of the Treasury, Debt to the Penny – September 28, 2026 (fiscaldata.treasury.gov)
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