When did they start rolling coins?

elwood

What did they start with? Indian Pennies, Barber coinage?

RYK

When they ran out of marijuana?

Sorry...it was the first thing that came to mind.

lordmarcovan

Good question- I've often wondered the same thing.

I'm guessing it was during the Indian cent/Barber coin era, as you mentioned, but it could've been a lot earlier. The earliest original roll I have seen that was obviously in an original wrapper was a bunch of Peace dollars.

FC57Coins

I believe there were some rolls of seated lib nickels - so maybe back then?

darktone

my guess is right around the turn of the century. The last time this was brought up someone talked about a roll of 3 cent silvers if I remember right? That would put us in the 1850's or so. mike

Nic

I believe darktone is right. K

lordmarcovan

<< <i>I believe there were some rolls of seated lib nickels - so maybe back then >>



What's a "Seated Liberty nickel"? D'ya mean a half dime?

66Tbird

My brain must be way out there today. First thing that came to mind was the large cone things with a hole in the bottom and you roll the coin down a chute and it goes round-n-round for about 2 minutes.

lathmach

A salesman that used to call on my machine shop told me that his family had a hardware store. The store had been in business a very long time. He said they found a roll on 3¢ nickles on a shelf once.
That really got my blood pressure up where it should be, but too bad....he told me they'd long since sold them.

Ray

oreville

I seem to recall that they used wires strung together to hold together a stack of various same sized coins together.

elwood

<< <i>I'm guessing it was during the Indian cent/Barber coin era, as you mentioned, but it could've been a lot earlier. The earliest original roll I have seen that was obviously in an original wrapper was a bunch of Peace dollars. >>


My Lordmarcovan...was the paper as heavy as the paper used to roll coins today?
I've heard of a roll of Seated dimes or quarters. Now broken-up.
I believe Eliasberg had a roll of 1883 Liberty Nickels?
I guess I was wondering what type of paper was used and if any of these wrappers still exist?

lordmarcovan

I too wonder how many wrappers would still exist- not many, I'd imagine!

I've never had the opportunity to examine any original wrappers prior to the 1940's, so I don't know what the paper would've been like.

In my younger, poorer days, when I used to cherrypick rolls from the bank to find Wheaties and early Jeffs, I got two or three cent rolls that were in obviously old wrappers- they had a bank name on them, with the old pre-1963 two-digit postal codes (like "Cleveland 32, Ohio", or whatever it was)- so I knew they would be good. Those rolls were solid Wheaties, through and through. Wish I'd saved the wrappers- I think I did, for a while, but dunno what I did with them. Not really sure why I saved them, but they were kind of interesting.