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Pillar of the Community
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When did the US Mint and/or US Banks begin wrapping rolls of coins? That is, start wrapping 50 pennies per paper roll, 20 halves per paper roll, etc?
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Bill Edited by BillSnyder
02/02/2014 5:29 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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There is a movie called "Mister Lucky" made in 1943 where Cary Grant's character walks around with a roll of dimes. Great movie, but I'm betting it's before that.
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Never. Outside parties do that.
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I rather doubt your blanket statement, but let me rephrase.
When were paper coin rolls first used in the United States?
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I remember getting flat paper cent rolls that held 25 cents back in the 1970's-80's. John1  |
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Never. Outside parties do that. I believe it, the US government is Lazy, they sell it by the ton. Gardia and Brinks are the ones to actually do the rolling. String and sons is another one, unless they are just the printers.  Edit: One of my banks branches has a rolling machine so that makes halves very bad for me, but nice local change jar dumps. Edited by ASLAN TVorlon
02/02/2014 7:18 pm
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String and sons is another one, unless they are just the printers. Yes they are just the "printers" They print the papaer and manufacture coin handling machines. They do not roll coins. Patents on coin wrappers date back to the early 1900's. I have seen old style unused paper wrappers on ebay with copyright dates of 1919. Edited by Conder101
02/03/2014 08:16 am
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Pillar of the Community
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I'm pretty sure that the industrial production of paper rolls dates back to at least the very early 1900s, but banks probably started using little tubes of paper to organize coins as soon as paper became cheap enough to use for that purpose.
I've heard of collectors who have '09-S VDB cents in their original rolls, so I would guess that the rolls became standardized at least during the Barber era, if not during the Seated Liberty era.
Personally, I would love to see an original roll for the "oddball" coins- 2 cent, 3 cent, and 20 cent. How neat would that be to own a roll of "$1.50 - Nickels" 3 cent pieces?
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That would be cool. As of when they were first used, I have no idea.
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Very interesting topic.
Especially for me, who has a small collection of coin roll paper.
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