When did pockets vs. coin purses become the preferred method of carrying coins?

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• Russ Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭

  February 14, 2011 1:55AM

  Shortly after May 20, 1873.
  
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• LindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 14, 2011 2:14AM

  
  
  << <i>Shortly after May 20, 1873.
  
  Russ, NCNE >>
  
  
  
  Is that when Levi started in business.

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• jesbroken Posts: 10,617 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 14, 2011 2:39AM

  I knew several men in the 1950's and 1960's who carried them, including my great uncle and grandfather. I inherited my great uncle's after 37 years with the same uncirculated Morgan silver dollar which he gave me on my 10 birthday and kept for me to prevent it becoming lost or stolen. He died in 1964 and I did not see it again until his daughter passed away in 2001. Unfortunately the coin was in the same paper envelope it came in and had toned ugly brown and black. Still it was my coin after all these years and the very coin that interested me in coin collecting as a hobby.
  Jim

  
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• tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭

  February 14, 2011 2:40AM

  
  ...i could see a big demand for coin purses in the future, especially if the rag buck is retired and everyone starts
  
  using the small dollars instead.

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• Steve27 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭

  February 14, 2011 2:53AM

  I suspect it coincided with the widespread acceptance of paper money; thus, ending the need to carry large numbers of coins.
  

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• ambro51 Posts: 13,949 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 14, 2011 3:31AM

  The black leather snap purse was known as the 'old man purse'...or at least thats my grandfather called his. Just a thing in the pocket of work pants to carry change, pipe scraper, small pen knife.
  
  being an old man myself recently I tried carrying an 'old man purse'...a rather old black leather snap purse. In it...a 1921 peace dollar, a walker...and my normal pocket chage.
  
  Some SOB reached into the open window of my range rover one day I made a quick stop...and swiped it. basterd.

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