My collection of Uncle Sam’s Banks consists of well over 100 different types and colors of banks and registers. In addition to my own collection, I am also very proud to own the original collection of Guy Zani Jr. believed to be the most extensive collection in existence today.

Guy Zani Jr. wrote the “Uncle Sam’s Register Banks & Cash Register Collectors Guide” which is the only reference guide ever made on the banks. However there are less than 100 copies of this book in existence and is therefore more rare than most of the banks.

My collection begins with both versions of the very first bank design, the Penny Register Bank and the Dime Register Bank made in 1907, and goes through the five colors of the last 3-Coin bank Durable was manufacturing at the time it was sold to Western Stamping Company in 1957. It includes more than 20 variations of single denomination banks as well as the four color combinations of the WWII era bank with the iconic Uncle Sam picture plate on the front. It also includes a 50 cent single denomination bank, a Jewish Charities promotional bank and what is to date the only know Uncle Sam’s Store Display. This store display was believed to have been used at a Woolworth’s store in New York. Foreign banks include several Canadian Maple Leaf banks, Latin country El Tio Sam’s Banks, a Guilder Bank from the Netherlands and a bank from Austria that uses a coin called a Heller from the early 1900’s.