Ever Been Shorted In A Roll?

Sixthcents: you got a british penny in a roll of dimes. Wow, I thought american pennies stood out. How the heck did they cram that in the roll!?!

"Sixthcents: you got a british penny in a roll of dimes. Wow, I thought american pennies stood out. How the heck did they cram that in the roll!?!"

It was in there tight, at first I though it was a nickel lol. I don't think it would fit in a proper roll, the "dollar store" rolls are a little bigger and sloppier.

Here is a picture of those recent finds I mentioned earlier.

I also found a "play money" cent, the one with the Maple leaf. It too, is slightly bigger then a penny.

It is kinda surprising that drops don't have to be verified in all banks in this day and age.

So far I have been anal about the rolls I bring back, I would hate to have them open a random roll to find it short.
Right now, I just put my good shirt on, and can still walk in and do a transaction, no questions asked. Although, I only bring back about a 25% of what I take away so that helps. I would not want to bring back a bunch of pennies to exchange for cash or quarters though. The lady at the one bank says she wants to get rid of the pennies, so I work on that premise.

Another consideration is whether the person who packed the roll, used one of those measured counting devices.

Example, there is around a 1/4"(5mm) difference in the size of a 1960s vs 1970s copper stack. (Canadian)
The 1960s is about 77mm or 3 1/16", whereas the 1970s stack is a little over 2 13/16".

I might even have to watch there are different thickness within a decade.

When I store the copper I am keeping, it is already sorted by decade, so in my case, I can measure a stack with a set of calipers, and be confident on a reasonable count for my purposes.

Any time it's changing hands in mix years, it really should be counted.

To be honest with you, I am starting to reconsider the use of the Coinstar machine for my tailings, maybe I will start another thread to discuss why.

I have been running one box at a time a using a counter, if accurate and I have reason to believe that it is not, I have been short on some penny boxes, but the last several boxes have averaged more than 2500 and better on the copper too.

I don't think I've ever had a bank box that didn't have one or more short rolls, but they almost always end up so close to a correct count
by the time I get to the end of the box that the difference isn't worth getting upset about. I don't even keep track any more.

Or a Canadian quarter, you can probably still use it somewhere as a quarter but it's a let down thinking you were going to pull a silver quarter.

All. The. Time. It doesn't bother me though because I just return the roll with the equivalent amount of money that I bought it for. It's common place for me.