Are the New Jefferson's thinner?

19Lyds

After searching my bag of Peace Medal Jeffies I went to roll them up with my nifty "Stak-Koh-Pak". I loaded them to the $2.00 mark and decided to count them out just for grins. I discovered that the old $2.00 mark now held 42 coins! Just to be sure my brandy hadn't gone bad, I counted out 40 of the old Jeffies and verified that my kids hadn't moved the $2.00 mark on me. Sure enough, the old nickels are thicker. The 40 coin mark now holds 42 coins.

Has anybody else run across this or am I just nuts?

I tried to attach a photo. Hopefully it will show what I am referring to.

richbeat

There's not supposed to be any difference, but stranger things have happened. That's interesting!

sumnom

That is interesting. Would this make a difference to a vending machine?

DominusDeus

they seem to be ever so slightly thinner.

19Lyds

Well the weights will be different by about .25 grams. Assuming each nickel weights in a 5.00g and 40 nickels would be 200g. Divided by the mock propensity toward procrastination = about 4.76g per nickel so, yeah. They'd weight less and might cause vending machine problems but then....

19Lyds

How in the heck did you get this picture so quickly?

richbeat

Is .25 grams within Mint tolerance?

19Lyds

I really don't know. Perhaps I should drive down there tomorrow and ask.....

DominusDeus

<< <i>How in the heck did you get this picture so quickly? >>



Well, I stacked two CD jewel cases on top of each other on my desk, put the two nickels next to each other, put my digicam on macro mode, got it to focus the best I could, as straight on to the nickels as I could, took a pic, hooked the USB up to my PC, transfered the JPG to my desktop, edited it in Adobe Photodelux to add the text/crop/compress as jpg, replied to thread, attached image, posted, copied image URL, edited post, clicked the image icon, pasted the URl into the prompt, hit Enter and hit the edit button for the thread.

And voila, here we are.

DominusDeus

ah yea, being on 2 megabit broadband helps, too.

ibzman350

The first thing I noticed about the coin, was that it's thinner than previous Jeffs

Herb

pontiacinf

coin world article confirmed this, as well as the rolls from the mint have been found with differing amounts under and over...I have the sony dcrdvd300 cameera, and Im just beginning to see what those digicams can do!...Im not at all botherd by the fact it cost well over 1k anymore.

Neptune

I noticed that the clear round plastic tube will hold 43 of the new Jeffersons (uncirculated) - it will hold 42 of the old nickels (1973-circulated)

Anyone else can double check me on this, because I am not sure the two tubes are identical - altho they appear to be.

Morgans767

varying thickness will cause big problems for rolls, there will need to be new rolls just for those nickels and what if you mix them with the older ones? the mint should have known better

cladking

The primary determinent of the thickness of a given coin has to do primarily
with striking characteristics. Coins normally will stack on their rims and these
can vary greatly in thickness from year to year or mint to mint. Weight of a coin
is determined mainly by the thickness of the strip form which the blank is struck.
Normally very thick or very thin coins will still work in vending machines however
sometimes coins will have their rims struck up so high and be so thick that they
are difficult to get into rhe coin slot. The mint refers to this as "finning" and scraps
many such coins. They have even tumbled some coins in a machine like a cement
mixer to knock down the rims.

19Lyds

Well I guess that explains why my bag of Jeffies had so many gouges and scratches and nicks OH MY!