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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 268880, member: 66&quot;]Up until about 10 years ago, the mint shipped cent to the Fed in canvas bags of 5,000 cents each,&nbsp; These are what people are talking about when they speak of &quot;mint sewn&quot; bags.&nbsp; Sometimes banks would receive these bags when they ordered coins from the Fed, but often they received rolled coins where Brinks or another service received the bags or tubs from the Fed and rolled them.&nbsp; Then the rolls were delivered to the banks in boxes.&nbsp; Boxes are easier to handle and you are less likely to drop them because they don&#039;t shift around.</p><p><br /></p><p>About that time the Mint also changed their bag size that they used to ship to the Fed.&nbsp; The new bag, called a ballistic bag, now held as many coin in one bag that they used to have on an entire pallet of bags.&nbsp; A ballistic bag typically holds about a ton of coins.&nbsp; For a bag of cents that would be about 400,000 cents.&nbsp; I think you would have to be a REAL good terms with your bank to get them to order a ballistic bag for you.&nbsp; And you would have to have a forklift available on short notice to pick them up when they arrived.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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