How were coins stores?

I'm not talking about collectors, I mean for banks.

I know they had paper rolls in the 30s and after, and before that bags.

What about in the early to mid 1800s, what did they store coins in then?

 

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I imagine they stored them in much the same way as they stored small amounts of grain....

 

Trays and bags.

 

real nice extremly heavy cool looking cash registers

 

found on google "There are a couple known "drawer" specimens that retained luster. Usually, the inside of drawers are raw and the wood is very dry... especially in antique furniture, built when chemical wooden treatments were not used. It is very likely that these acted as humidors."

and if your talking from mint to bank then in bags like morgans were.

 

Wood crates.

 

I think they had Tupperware containers back then, right? Yep, that's what they stored them in... I'm pretty sure. Then they marked the denomination and quantity on the outside with a Sharpie.

 

But then you remember traipsing around with Aristotle and Archimedes in togas. Go figure.

 

Kegs apparently were used a lot later than most people realize. According to Roger Burdette in From Mine to Mint, in 1904 the mint shipments were made in 15,452 bags and 4,o68 kegs. He has a picture from 1914 that shows the loading of a flat bed truck including at least 8 mint kegs being used for gold export. A keg of gold coin would contain 10 $5K bags of coins.

 

Wooden barrels, for planchets, go back
as far as Matthew Boulton who shipped
half cent and large cent planchets from the
Soho mint in barrels.

 

At least you've still got hair!

 

Cool stuff. Are they yours or an
exhibit?

 

Not mine except in my dreams....

 

I really need to clean up my collection. What a mess!

 

its not your hair i am worried about

 

For smaller denominations, canvas or heavy cloth bags were used. See @ 11:20 of this archive film:

 

Canadian silver dollars, during the 1940s, were packaged in wooden crates. I think I have an archive photo around here somewhere, with a box of silver dollars with 1948 stamped on it.... oh to have handful of those now!