How were coins stores?

Curiously Canadian cents were sent out from the RCM in $60 bags, not $50 for some reason. I have a $60 bag from 1963 that I use as a backup bag for coin buys at the bank.

 

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It wasn't until the late teens that rolling coin became widespread, and it wasn't the banks that drove the innovation of automatic coin wrapping but the need to sort and roll coins from vending machines, trollies, etc making their way back to the bank. Some hand-rolling of coins occurred in the late 1800's and early 1900's but it was tedious work. Larger customers may have been able to take bags of coin...medium size customers may have requested coin by rolls...and the smallest would have taken trays or just handfuls of change.

 

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