The 2017 film "Coin Heist" is about a group of four modern-day private high school students who break into the United States Philadelphia Mint to manufacture artificial error coins, intending to sell them to coin collectors. The students need the money to keep their school open after the father of one of the students embezzled and lost $10,000,000 in school funds. No real United States coins are shown in this film but a prop coin based on a rejected Michigan state quarter dollar (25 cents) coin is used. Also shown are some minting equipment and coin dies.

Dennington Prep is a private high school located near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The school art class students are taken to the United States Philadelphia Mint for a tour.

The Philadelphia Mint was founded in 1792 and is the oldest of all US mints.

A mint official explains the manufacturing process for coins and also explains that while few error coins get out of the mint, those that do can be sold to collectors for sometimes lots of money.

The school's large metal abstract sculpture serves as a student meeting spot.

The four students who plan the operation are Jason, a musician and artist, Benny, a machinist, Dakota, a school socialite, and Alice, a computer expert and "hacker." They hear a story about a mint employee who surreptitiously manufactured some error coins which were sold for a lot of money. The four believe that 2000 error quarters would sell for $5,000 each making the $10,000,000 to re-fund the school.

The quarter they pick to use is from a (fictional) "Wildlife of America" series of coins, a Michigan State coin with the design of a fish being hooked by a fisherman. Alice goes to work trying to figure a way to get into the mint.

She is able to get into a private mint computer and finds some information.

Alice finds a map showing the location of coin dies. The plan is to create an "error" coin die, take it to the mint, and strike the coins. Benny, the machinist, works on the die to add "errors."

Alice gets some other information about mint projects.

The future projects include the (fictional) Medal of Honor Medallion, Nixon Nickel, Wildlife of America Michigan State coin, Sitting Bull One Dollar Coin, and the Trump Wooden Nickel. Benny finishes his work on the die.

The four head for the mint posing as workers for a HVAC (heating vent and air-conditioning) company, but school activities force them to make multiple trips in pairs. They make a mistake in the stamping and produce 20,000 coins instead of 2,000.

The prop coins appear to have the same design on both sides. A pair of real HVAC men show up causing the mint guards to do a search of the building.

The four students are able to get their coins out of the mint in boxes, which would require some heavy lifting as 20,000 US clad quarters would weight around 250 lbs. Mr. Rankin, an officious teacher, has been following the students as he has been wondering why they have been hanging out with each other. He confronts the students and brings them to the school principal (headmaster).

The students know that they are in serious trouble.

The students explain their scheme and the reason they did it to the principal. They are surprised when he offers to fence the original 2,000 coins for them and agrees to give the money to the school. The principal tells them to get rid of the other 18,000 coins, which they do.

Jason hands out souvenir quarters to the other members.

The sculpture has gained an additional piece made from the rest of the quarters.

Alex Saxon as Jason
Alexis G. Zall as Alice
Sasha Pieterse as Dakota
Jay Walker as Benny
Michael Cyril Creighton as Mr. Rankin
Director: Emily Hagins
Writers: Emily Hagins
Based on the 2014 novel Coin Heist by Elisa Ludwig