Cent Roll Weights

I bet the cashier ment light by count not weight. It happens to me when I get CWR's,sometimes it short by 1-5 coins and once in awhile it has a dime in it
John1

This is what is becoming a noted scam by bankers. Many people get piles of coins and roll them. However, they purposely leave out one or two or even three coins per roll. Doesn't sound to great a way to make money but imagine doing this over and over and over. At one bank near me they will no longer just accept rolls unless allowed to send somewhere for counting. This cost the bank money so that cost is passed on to the customer that brought in those rolls. I've been told by bank personal that short rolls is becoming really common lately. This is possibly the biggest differences in weight of Cent Rolls. Now imagine other coin rolls such as Quarters with one or two short per roll.

Because of the different compositions, and the allowed tolerances, a full count roll of cents can weigh anywhere from 120 to 160 grams. That is a 40 gram spread, over 1 1/3 ozs. Trying to "count" them by weight is silly. And that doesn't even take wear into consideration. Now if you take some LARGE samples you can come up with an average Cu/Zn ratio in your area that would help you to narrow that weight range down. But then you also have to remember that the ratio in one area may be different than in another, and that over time that ratio will fluctuate. So you will have to keep redoing your sample testing and adjusting your expected weight range.

I think it would just be simpler to count them. Even counting them by length would probably be more accurate than weighing them.

Well, nobody trusts bill.