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Message:: [QUOTE="bhp3rd, post: 816877, member: 16510"]Banks did not roll coins until the early to mid 1930's   Banks did not roll coins until the early to mid 1930's - Morgan dollars, (because nobody wanted them, never did in the first place) sat in bags and in the wet, damp corners of vaults.  They actually scopped them up with shovels to load them.  Nobody, I mean nobody ever had a use for them much up to the 1960's.  Then bags were cut open and dumped out to distribute or sell, and still not many wanted the things.  You would not be able to lift a bag or carry it far.  There are some, very few, 20 coin tubes that may be some sort of original intact but they would be the common dates and likley picked over times 12 by now.The entire Morgan and Peace dollar programs were nothing more than a bale out for silver mine owners and investors and to stockpile for the Treasury.  No one could afford to carry around any dollar coins until after the first World War and then nobody wanted them."""For almost 75 years Morgan dollars were a coin looking for a purpose"""!I still hate them![/QUOTE]