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"short" mint roll

chuckylucky3chuckylucky3 Posts: 2
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I have a mint roll of "keelboat" nickles that appears to be one coins short (based on roll size. Any worth to that? or am I just out a nickle? Roll is unopened.image
Charles A Landess

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  • DominusDeusDominusDeus Posts: 993 ✭
    The new nickels are slightly thinner than older nickels.

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  • hamiltonjhhamiltonjh Posts: 1,140
    Good question, but I'd imagine you're just out a nickle.


    WELCOME to the forums by the way. image
  • chuckylucky3chuckylucky3 Posts: 2
    I realize that the new nickels may be thinner than the old nickels, but i have other new nickel rolls, and only this one is shorter....so i guess i'm out a nickle.image...but thanks for the replies.
    Charles A Landess
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,964 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes, I'd say that you are just out a nickel.

    Back in the old days (the early 1960s) went the roll market was really hot, one way that crooked dealers had to enhance their profits was short the rolls by one coin. It was a real pain the butt.
    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • DominusDeusDominusDeus Posts: 993 ✭
    Well, you'll never really know if you're out a nickel untill you open it and count them.

    Although, you could use your fingernail and rub the roll like this roll of quarters and count them...

    image
  • RampageRampage Posts: 9,450 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Could be an error coin in there. Maybe a nickel struck on a dime planchet, or a cent planchet! Open it up and find out. image
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,649 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There can be some variation in thickness of coins even within a year. It's more
    likely you have thinner than normal nickels than that the highly reliable machines
    used to count these made an error.
    Tempus fugit.
  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    This question has been popping up since the state quarters started back in 1999. Due to the way they have been striking the coins one mints "original bank wrapped" or roll set rol is usually shorter than the other but both contain the same number of coins. Basicly one mint is striking the coins at a higher pressure than the other causing the rims to be struck up HIGHER. So when the coins are stacked the higher rims make the stack of coins from that mint taller than the other.
  • DominusDeusDominusDeus Posts: 993 ✭
    I guess I'm the only one who thought the rubbing-the-roll (wow, doesn't that sound dirty...) method was a cool way to count coins without opening the roll..

    Oh well.

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