Twentycent Pieces

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Hi there, can anybody tell me if 20 cent pieces came in a bag? If so, how many to a bag.? I checked a book out on 20 centers from ANA but it didn't address this. Thanks, Jerry

[michael]

welcome to the boards!

 

 

i hope you enjoy it here

 

and if you have any questions please ask there are many on here that can help!

 

let me know what you collect? and what got you started

 

from your handle sounds like you are you a dealer? if so what do you specialize in?

 

i do not know if they came in bags i assume/guess most probably original rolls??? i am guessing here but i will find out for you as soon as i can but i need to do some research

 

i am sure by the time i find out you will have an answer on here from some of the specialists/knowledgable dealers/collectors on this forum

 

 

michael

[michael]

again as a wild guess might have been shipped from the mint in bags to larger city banks then separated/distributed in some rolls to whomever wanted such a quantity?

 

again i will try to find out for you next week with the sourses i got human and bookwise

 

michael

[Count_Erfit]

There must be a special .....HELL...... for questions like this.

 

It's a GREAT question. It's doggin the heck out of my brain because I think I once may have KNOWN!

 

But, for now it is a nagging, impenetrable, burning MYSTERY that I didn't have this morning when I got up.

 

Where is Marilyn Vos Savant when we need her?

 

Bags? Kegs? Rolls? Maybe they came in SLABS.

 

Aaaaargh

[BillJones]

I don't know for sure, but my guess would be that 20 cent pieces were shipped in bags. Morgan dollars, which were made just a few years later were stored in bags in the treasury vaults, so it's logical to say that they were in bags.

 

Rolls were really too small of an amount for mint distribution. They were more of a bank thing. The mint rolls that the mint currently sells are a product for coin collectors that the mint sells for prices in excess of their face value.

 

As for the number of coins per bag, once more its guess work. I'd say that a roll would contain 50 pieces ($10 face). Perhaps a bag may have been $500 face value() (50 rolls).

 

Whatever it was, it did not last for long. The denomination got bad press from the get-go.

[jtryka]

Well, most silver came in $1000 bags, so why would double-dimes be any different?

[Leothelion]

Gunny sacks? It had to be wood, leather, cotton or hemp is my guess.

 

Leo

[BillJones]

Well, most silver came in $1000 bags, so why would double-dimes be any different?

 

Point well taken. You are probably right, but given the mintages I doubt that there were very many 20 cent piece bags.