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Message:: [QUOTE="rmpsrpms, post: 2840125, member: 31773"]Yes of course. Perhaps you should re-read my post: "If we are talking about a roll that was wrapped from a hand-cut sheet of Kraft paper, with the ends folded-over and wax-sealed, then I believe the anecdote about the Half-Dimes." As Burton Strauss III said, rolls date back to the 1870's (I think they might go even further back) but they were hand-rolled. The practice was widespread, or as it says in my first cited patent, "as is common", by the beginning of the last century. The machines initially were designed to help with counting and wrapping by hand, and within a decade were wrapping what we know of today as OBW rolls. My point is that if you received a roll of such coins, there would be no way to tell they were wrapped by a bank, or by hand, or what was inside of them. There may be a handwritten note on the outside, but the practice of putting the name of the bank where the roll was wrapped did not start until the 20's.[/QUOTE]