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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2840873, member: 112"]OK, but that begs the question, or at least it does for me - were those paper rolls pre-made paper rolls, or did he just use pieces of paper and wrap the coins into a roll ? I'm asking because I researched it once, as best I could anyway, and from what I found out pre-made paper coin rolls were not invented until sometime in the late 1800's - never could pin down an exact year but if memory serves it was in the 1880's. But it may have been the 1870's as somebody else suggested. And pre-made paper rolls did not really begin to be used by banks or merchants until the 1930's. Yeah, there was undoubtedly a bank here and there and maybe a few merchants that used them before the 30's. But as a general rule most did not. And rmpsrpms, I'm not disputing any of what you posted on the other forum. I found references to all kinds of counting trays and counting machines, and even the rolling machines you talk about. But typically, and especially back then, new inventions didn't exactly take off like they did in later years. It often took them quite a while before they became accepted and widely used. Look at the automobile for example. da Vinci sketched one in the 1500's. There are references for the first working model going back to 1672, other references say 1725, and others yet 1769. But it wasn't until the 1900's that people really started using them.[/QUOTE]