Robbed Again By Armaguard!

Over many, many years of searching customer wrapped rolls, I've come across scores of foreign coins, a few washers, some car wash tokens, and even plastic play money. Rarely have had multiple occurrences in a single roll--just scattered here and there across thousands of rolls. Also, I've had undercounts and overcounts. Finding dimes in cent or nickel rolls is always a treat. Overall, think I've come out a ways on the plus side in terms of raw value. All part of hobby, yes.

Yes, this happens way more often than it should given that the weight of a 5 cent coin is less than half that of a $2 coin. Not to mention the differences in diameter, thickness and colour!! Ridiculous and very annoying!! And of course 10 cent coins show up in one dollar rolls too.

I'd like a tour of the Armaguard coin rolling process to see just how this kind of thing is possible. When I tip a bucketful of 5 and 10 cent coins into the coin deposit machine at my local bank none of them ever get counted as $1 or $2 coins.

The only way I ever recoup any of my losses is when I find coins in the the reject tray left behind by previous users of the coin machine, even though the machine tells you on multiple occasions to check the reject tray for any uncounted coins. I guess some people don't count their coins before they deposit them and just believe the amount the machine tells them at the end. Of course coin machines are well known to swallow coins without crediting them to your total, but that happens a lot less often than it used to.

To the OP, I hope you find the occasional 2013 purple coronation $2 among those rolls you go through, otherwise financially it doesn't seem worth it.