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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 956830, member: 66&quot;]At the early mint in Philadelphia they DID use kegs for the transportation of the cent planchets and for transporting the finished coinage.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know exactly when the kegs were phased out (The Randall hoard of 1816 to 1820 large cents found in the 1860&#039;s were in kegs so they were probably in use until the 1820&#039;s) were but I do know that in the 1870&#039;s they were using canvas bags.&nbsp; The only boxes that I know were used for transporting coins were the pyx boxes for the annual assays.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for Wells Fargo transporting coin for the Denver mint, they may have but remember the Denver mint wasn&#039;t even in existence until 1906 and by the 1920&#039;s the shipments were already being made by the equivalent of motorized armored cars and those were bags.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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