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Valued Member
United States
161 Posts |
I picked up 5 rolls of dimes and one was clearly short. I counted it and it was 3 dimes short of a full roll.
However, this same roll did have a 1947 so I was still happy with the result. I had thoughts of telling them not because I wanted 30 cents but because I thought they should know. In the end I did nothing as it might cause me trouble.
Being new to this I was curious how often the rest of you get shorted on rolls.
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Moderator
 United States
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I mainly search cent rolls and mostly machine wrapped and I can't remember ever being shorted. I have been shorted a few time with CWR's but more often I have found a dime or two in a roll  John1  |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Most of the banks in Australia but coins into little resealable bags to give to customers, instead of rolls. I have been shorted many times and rarely received extra. Its annoying but I just take it as one of those things you have to put up with.
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Valued Member
 United States
161 Posts |
If you are searching a missing coin here or there is the cost of doing business I'm just curious how often people try and cheat the system. When I was younger I used to worry about getting stuck with Canada coins in my quarter rolls but now they are worth as much if not more than the US coins. Perhaps that is why I don;t see them as often as I used to. |
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Valued Member
United States
264 Posts |
I get shorted on my penny rolls all the time. Given that we should be happy our bank tellers allow us to do what we do... it just the price we pay for our hobby. Now a disrespectful coin dealer, like Southland Coins in Lake Charles, shorting me an ASE? I would/did give him every word applicable in my vocabulary.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4333 Posts |
I've been shorted HUNDREDS of times! All part of the hobby.
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Pillar of the Community
United States
597 Posts |
brinks always shorts rolls of cents here in fl and I assume everywhere they probably make a fortune on it. but they always add a dime lol so it helps on the short
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1796 Posts |
There is one customer at the bank I go to that always seems to short their rolls, and rolls them in the same wrappers. Once it was so bad that I pointed it out in the tray and the teller was rather surprised. She knows who's bringing them in and is now being a bit more leery about accepting them without looking.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2661 Posts |
I have been relatively lucky in this area. I have been shorted a couple of times, but have managed to get an extra in the roll more often than a shorted roll.
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Valued Member
United States
157 Posts |
dolnt think I've ever been shorted
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1213 Posts |
I've been shorted a lot and I agree that it's part of collecting & searching rolls. However, there was a period where I getting boxes of halves from String & Son and was being shorted by a half or two in 8 - 10 rolls per box. I decided that was not acceptable so I got a scale and determined the weight of 20 halves and the wrapper and started weighing the rolls prior to opening them. When I found short rolls, I took them back to the back and got m money back for those rolls. The bank tellers were very nice about and even apologized.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2757 Posts |
just did a box of customer wrapped nickels. about 40 out of the 50 rolls were a nickel short. So, I'm out $2. I've done thousands of bank wrapped rolls and found one once that was 5 nickels short. Sometimes they have dimes, sometimes a Lincoln Cent. |
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New Member
United States
36 Posts |
Not that I'm aware of, but when you're opening a dozen or so rolls of pennies at at time, counting the pennies doesn't always cross one's mind.
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Valued Member
United States
125 Posts |
I think the question should be, "Ever not been shorted in a roll?"
Coin rolling machines are not perfect. And the more you order the more you'll find variation in the count. It's not easy to track this, but I've seen short and long rolls for Halves and Pennies.
With silver being found I care little for the occasional loss. When I'm not finding silver it's another matter completely.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I have NEVER been shorted in BWR, however usually get shorted a couple coins in a box of CWR. That being said, I actually was over $2.60 in a CWR box of dimes.....so I can't complain. Its all part of the cost of the hobby.
P.S. How many of you actually replace the coins shorted from your rolls, and how many of you give them back as short as you got them?
I always replace the coins that I was shorted.
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Valued Member
United States
366 Posts |
I had a BoA I would order brinks penny boxes from. But when I upped the order to around 50 boxes a week something happened and the boxes I was getting had multiple rolls in each box that were only half filled. It was strange because they were the plastic wraps and still it sealed many before the 50 penny count. I stopped ordering pennies from that bank after getting 2 weeks of pick-ups like this.
If you're concerned, it may be a good idea to get a coin counter to check the boxes. I found the counter only made me more paranoid, because I was able to tell how short the pick-ups were and how much the coin counters at banks shorted me.
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Posted 07/08/2012 2:58 pm
