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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rmpsrpms, post: 2745097, member: 31773&quot;]It indeed was common to roll coin, by hand, in paper far back into the 1800&#039;s or maybe earlier. What was invented in the early 1900&#039;s were mechanical aids, followed by full-on counting and rolling machines in the 1910&#039;s. </p><p><br /></p><p>There is only one photograph of the roll in question that I can see, so it&#039;s not possible to tell if it has crimped ends. But I doubt anyone would have interest in an &quot;original roll&quot; that did not have crimped ends. That process was not invented until much later. </p><p><br /></p><p>I did a brief writeup of what I found related to rolling machines by doing a patent search a few years ago. That was before I found Coin Talk, so apologize for the outside link:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/901297/obw-rolls-what-can-we-learn-from-the-earliest-patents" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/901297/obw-rolls-what-can-we-learn-from-the-earliest-patents" rel="nofollow">https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/901297/obw-rolls-what-can-we-learn-from-the-earliest-patents</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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