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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SorterX, post: 1260147, member: 30717&quot;]BWR = MWR = FWR</p><p><br /></p><p>Fed wrapped roll is a misnomer.&nbsp; From my research the Federal Reserve banks do not wrap coins.&nbsp; My understanding (and someone correct me if I am wrong) of the circulation chain is that the US Mints manufacture the coins; these are sent in large bags to the Federal Reserve banks.&nbsp; The Fed banks take orders for bags from armored car services (e.g. Brinks, Garda, Loomis, etc.) who do the actual counting and wrapping; the armored car services take orders from banks and deliver coins.&nbsp; Banks, in turn, circulate the coins into the hands of businesses and consumers.</p><p><br /></p><p>As coins come back to the banks, every once in a while (I don&#039;t know the frequency) banks bag the coins and return them to the armored services.&nbsp; They count and wrap the coins to return to banks.&nbsp; Again, every once in a while (I don&#039;t know the frequency), the armored services bag the coins and return them to the Fed banks for inspection, where they pull damaged, worn, and foreign coins out.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Fed banks will deliver circulated coins before they deliver the newly minted coins to the armored services.&nbsp; The circulated coins are bagged, and delivered back to the armored services when they order more coins, which are then counted and wrapped.</p><p><br /></p><p>Again, it&#039;s kinda hard to find all this info, and I pieced it together from various sources, so I may have made some errors.&nbsp; If someone knows anything I got wrong, or left out, please let me know.&nbsp; I am going to look for some of the sources I used for this info and will post them a bit later; there was a really interesting story of how the armored services came to be, as a result of the Fed banks not counting/wrapping coins themselves.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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