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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 4950100, member: 4910&quot;]This little 4&quot; x 3&quot; plastic coin saving bank is from the Cleveland Trust Company of Cleveland, Ohio.</p><p><br /></p><p>A friend showed it to me. It was full of old silver coins and she wanted me to open it and get the coins out. I did.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_coinbank_clevelandtrust_01.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Cleveland Trust Company coin bank</p><p><br /></p><p>The front reads:</p><p>A Great City ... A Great Bank!</p><p>The Cleveland Trust Company</p><p>63 Convenient Offices ... Banking Services</p><p>The Bank For All the People</p><p>(Drawing) Gen Moses Cleaveland</p><p><br /></p><p>Under the bottom reads:</p><p>Tom Thrift Enterprises</p><p>New Canaan, Conn</p><p>Patents Applied For</p><p><br /></p><p>The Tom Thrift company made these coin banks in the 1950&#039;s to encourage people to save money.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin bank has seven tubes for circulating coins of 1, 5 (two), 10 (two), 25, and 50 cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>The sponsoring bank would hand the coin banks out to customers to fill with coins. The customer would bring the coin bank to the office where a teller would use a special key to unlock it and deposit the coins to an account</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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