StephenS

Hi all,

I was recently admiring a newly purchased half eagle, and I began wondering how something so small could be so relatively well preserved, being as old as it is. Even with a few scratches/tick marks and a mild cleaning, it's in pretty good shape, given the fact that it was created before the Civil War (it's an 1843 type 1 coronet).

That got me thinking that perhaps it sat in a coin roll for $5 gold pieces for years and years until someone finally broke up the roll and sold each piece to collectors. Then I began to wonder if such a thing, rolls for gold coins, ever really existed for use as we use coin rolls today for pennies, nickels, dimes, etc. Were there rolls for $1, $2.50, $3, half eagle, eagle, and double eagle gold coins? I would imagine that if any still exist, they would be collectors items as well as the items that they held.

Thoughts?

-StephenS