Shorted coins from rolls from the bank
BLUEJAYWAY
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As a semi reg. coin roll searcher when I get rolls from the bank, I am shorted coins here and there. Have received my share of washers, slugs,foreign coins. How has your experience been? Do you reshort the roll missing the coin? What was your non-coin oddest roll find? Do you count out the roll before/as you search? Not a big deal if a few times, but over years could add up. Seems to happen with the dime and up denominations.
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I don't roll search often but have had foreign and short rolls in the past. I would never take a short roll back to the bank. I have enough change to replace what I pull out or cover what the roll was short when I got it.
Received an angel medal/coin in place of a sacagawea/anthony/president dollar in a hand-rolled roll at my local bank.
Haven't been shorted or found a foreign coin yet.
Gonna get me a $50 Octagonal someday. Some. Day.
I don't take rolls from a bank unless they were machine rolled by the armored carrier. When customers re-roll no telling what's inside.
Edited to add: my search is for newly released coinage.
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My best finds have always been from customer rolls so I just consider it the cost of CRHing. I've never really had that many shorted rolls. The most common issue I have are the occasional rolls full of metal detecting finds and they are mostly cent rolls. When I buy full boxes I never bother counting the coins in the rolls as I have a bank that takes full bags. I search the roll and dump the discards in a deposit bag, replacing any removed coins with common non-silver halves. I've never had the bank tell me I shorted them and have been told the courier company doesn't count the bags, they weigh them.
Jim
AFAIK my bank breaks open customer wrapped rolls and runs em thru the counter. No idea if they roll their own in addition to getting em already rolled.
I thought the point was to get customer made-up rolls that had been recently brought into the bank - that's possibly a "better chance" source for 90% silver and other goodies.
The collector mind-set is almost incomprehensible...
I've found cents in dime rolls, even a 1943 steel cent once. I find enough dimes in cent rolls that it more than makes up the difference. Of course with CWR you will be shorted occasionally, but then I have gotten rolls that were heavy. One roll that was short a couple of dimes also had a silver, so all was good. I've also gotten SBA dollars in half dollar rolls occasionally.
When I used to search rolls, I never kept track of being shorted and tried real hard to be sure the ones I returned had the right number of coins in them.
A cent in a dime roll? That would be obvious...almost impossible(the prefabbed type) when I think about it. A cent would stick out like a sore thumb and make the dimes loose in the roll.
Back in 1962-63 I went through many, many, many rolls. It was far more common for the rolls to contain more coins than required than less. In fact, shorted rolls were very seldom encountered.
When I turned in the rolls they always had the correct count of US coins ... no foreign, no washers, no buttons, no tokens. Today my bank takes any coins I roll without question as they know they will be all US and the correct count.
My bank, BMO-Harris use to have a counting machine. They discontinued that and now just hand out free paper rolls for you to do the work. I'm sure there's been a dime here or there I was off. Quarters are pretty simple.
I'm sure there's some deliberate cheating.
I know as a kid I used to get rolls from the banks, mostly pennies and nickles as that's all I could afford. Found a pretty fair amount of Wheaties and war nickles. Do the banks still allow you to buy rolled up coins as I thought that was reserved only for business customers.
Well you would think, but tellers don't notice the bulge in the roll. Where I live Canadian coins circulate a bit and sometimes rolls will be salted with them.
When I was searching rolls, it was half dollars... looking for WLH's mainly, or the occasional silver Kennedy...Never was shorted with those rolls...and I had both bank wrapped rolls and customer rolls. Cheers, RickO