Distribution Of Classic Coins To Banks?

I think coins been in bags till 1930's. Then they came out with rolls. I'm not sure about this though. It's a tough question.

I would tend to believe that the switch came about due to convenience for the banks dealing with their customers. After all it is easier for a small business owner to get 2 rolls of pennies rather than getting 100 loose ones.

However, I do wonder where in the distribution process do the coins gets put into the convenient rolls. Currently I don't think that this happens at the mint but at either the FRB or at the various coin processing business such as Brinks, Dunbar, Loomis or whereever.;

My thinking about where in the modern process goes to the fact that the mint does have a program of distributing bags of quarters in 100,000 or so coin bags on special pallets in kevlar bags. It would be nice to see such a bag but to own such a quantity of coins is well beyond the pale of what I could afford. Besides I think my wife would bury me under that stack and then proceed to cash them in cursing me all the time as she rolls the coins for deposit. (That would be my revenge!!)

You are correct about the tubs. For the most part they've used bage, but in the 80's (I believe) they also used bulk tubs that would be the equivalent 0f multiple bags. Later they went to the current Ballistic Bags which hold around a ton of coins. In the very early years cents and Half Cents were distributed in kegs. (The same type as what the planchets were delivered in.) Up until 1837 much of the silver was not delivered to banks because it came from individual depositors of bullion and was returned to them. Much of the deposits from banks and major merchants came as coin and was probably returned in whatever form it was delivered to the mint. I am not aware of any actual records of this.