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Problem with ANCO dime tubes - all 50 coins won't fit in many tubes
halfcentman
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I was curious if anyone else was having a problem fitting all 50 dimes into the ANCO coin tubes.
I was putting clad BU dimes in there from the 1980's, and some of the tubes aren't fitting the dimes. I've counted them over and over again. Even the ones that fit are a bit too tight.
I was curious if anyone else had this problem with the modern dimes. I have not had this problem with any other rolls to which all of the coins won't fit, although some of the nickel tubes can be just a bit tight.
I was putting clad BU dimes in there from the 1980's, and some of the tubes aren't fitting the dimes. I've counted them over and over again. Even the ones that fit are a bit too tight.
I was curious if anyone else had this problem with the modern dimes. I have not had this problem with any other rolls to which all of the coins won't fit, although some of the nickel tubes can be just a bit tight.
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GrandAm
The brand is "Coin Safe."
The clad coins have slightly greater volume than the silver ones. According to a July 5, 1973 letter of Alan J. Goldman, Assistant Director for Technology:
"...clad coins generally have a thickness falling in the upper half of the allowable range."
"The slightly greater volume was needed for complete fill of the 10 c piece. Cupro-nickel is harder than silver and so does not "fill" the dies as easily. This effect was most pronounced in the thinnest member of the series, the 10 c piece. The weights of all the other coins were then based on the weight of the dime."
<< <i>I have had problems with the cent tubes. >>
ive had troubles with the dime tubes
With cents often more than 50 normal circ or unc modern cents will fit in a tube.
If the coins are high rims like cents from mint sets or normal bus strikes with high rims then less coins fit.
Often with unc wheats maybe 49 fit or 50 but the cap won't scew down all the way. The same tube might fit more than 50 modern zincolns.
Some tubes from different batches or times are different even in the same brands.
Those older harder plastic cent tubes are usually a bit longer than the new ones.
The square ones are good, easier to fit neatly in boxes and they don't crack.
If the coins are high rims like cents from mint sets or normal bus strikes with high rims then less coins fit.>>
The cent rolls became noticeably shorter in 1993 with the adoption of the close AM cents.