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Post your U.S. Mint Canvas bags!
Insider2
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Lets see some of the old canvas coin bags - pre 1920 best. I've never seen one from Charlotte or Dahlonega. Any stamped West Point around?
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Not mine:
Here you go, not mine:
The last time there was a conversation here about old bags the Open Forum was still around.
Wish I could post mine - I collect them too.
Cool !!!
The commonly specified US Mint bag material was "duck" or "cotton duck." Here's description courtesy of Big Duck Canvas Co, Winder, GA:
Cotton duck - (from Dutch doek,"linen canvas"), also simply duck, sometimes duck cloth or duck canvas, commonly called "canvas" outside the textile industry, is a heavy, plain woven cotton fabric. There is also linen duck, which is less often used. Duck is used in a wide range of applications, from sneakers to over tents to sandbags. Duck fabric is woven with 2 yarns together in the warp and a single yarn in the weft.
By far the most popular workwear fabric, cotton duck is a weighty, plain-but-strong woven canvas. Despite its name, this hardy workwear fabric has nothing to do with waterfowl or their feathers. The term "duck" comes from the Dutch word doek, which refers to a linen canvas once used for sailors’ white trousers and outerwear. The word "cotton" has been added to modern duck items simply to distinguish them from traditional linen duck. Interestingly enough, though, cotton duck is related to another type of work-ready duck. Duct tape, often called "duck tape," was originally manufactured by adding an adhesive backing to regular cotton duck.
You’ve heard the expression "tougher than nails." Well, cotton duck may be "tougher than sails." The same general type of canvas duck used for many work clothes has often been used for traditional boat sails, since the thick cotton weave is incredibly resistant to tearing and rough wear. This workwear fabric is also found in four-walled tents, shoes and sand bags. Usually offered in drab colors like unbleached white, tan, and shades of brown or green, cotton duck work clothes never look very dirty even when they are.
One member has said these bags are not valuable. I wonder what that neat bag of 1943 cents would be worth? Anyone have an idea? Let's see:
I'll bid $20. Anyone go $40?
From auctions, it appears that gold coin bags, particularly small and obsolete denominations, bring good prices. (Gold coin bags were often burnt to recover gold dust.) Dollar bags bring less unless they have an interesting mintmark or date. It likely depends on chance as much as any real demand. (How does one squeeze a bag into a TPG holder?)
Valuable is a relative term, agree?
What is vaulable to one may be not to say Bezo? Or kk
I’ll bid $20..01
Any idea for CC bags?
Just about every "value" for anything is RELATIVE. I guess you've never been to an auction before so for newcomers bidding you must increase a current bid by at least 5c. My new bid is $26.00 to chase off any cheap, tire-kicking, wannabees.
How about state quarter tags from Philadelphia bags.....
it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide
Usually when I encounter a bunch of old Bags , I'll try to think of good things, try to smile, but keep on walking. These days no one really has any use for an old Bag,once the Gold or Silver is gone.