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The machines also make far more mistakes with the dimes than any other denomination. I once got a MWR with 47 dimes in it. A typical box of MWR will have at least one roll which is short a dime.
If you want to make up the difference, buy some CWR of cents. On average, I find a dime about every 15 rolls or so. In one CWR roll of cents, I found SIX dimes!
Believe it or not, but I actually haven't had any machine-wrapped rolls of cents, nickels, dimes, or quarters that have been short (at least not yet!). The customer-wrapped rolls of each are pretty much equally under and over, with the most unfavorable miscounts happening in dime and quarter rolls. By far the most favorable miscounts occur in cent and nickel rolls.
As far as stories go:
I once purchased a batch of pennies which felt noticeably heavy, and ended up having something like 14 extra once everything was re-rolled!
Another time, I had a machine-wrapped nickel roll that actually had a dime in it. Speaking more generally, across my history of nickel searching, I have had numerous customer-wrapped nickel rolls that were over the $2.00 mark.
Wow, that was certainly interesting! I wonder how that happened? I don't believe I've ever found more than one dime in a cent roll.
On the flip side, I have also found many cents in customer-wrapped dime rolls, although one time, the cent actually pushed it slightly over the $5.00 mark.
On a different occasion, I picked up a batch of quarters where the depositor had placed a nickel in the middle of 2 or 3 of them. Since it was apparently quite the effective placeholder in the roll, I didn't even catch it until I opened the rolls later.
Across my entire history of half dollar searching--constituting many thousands of customer-wrapped rolls--I can probably count the number of short rolls I've received on one hand. So, these would seem to be the most "honest" of the customer wrapped roll denominations.
Due to a lack of interest on my part, I almost never pick up dollar coin rolls. However, I did have an
Eisenhower dollar roll this summer that was short by one coin.
I think what concerned me the most about that $300 dime pickup was the fact that the short rolls were both pseudo-regular, and always precise in their miscounts. None had 48 or 51 dimes in them- they all had exactly 49. In that sense, it seems like there were two possibilities. First, that someone was being quite systematic in their dishonest re-rolling (which I didn't think someone would care enough to do). Or, the short rolls were resultant, at least in part, from some kind of external factor. The solution I suggested--that they were short because their machine-wrapped equivalents each had 1 silver dime in them--seemed quite possible given the circumstances.
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I got a roll of dimes cwr,s with 24 pennies in it
Wow, I'm really sorry to hear that. What kind of a roll were they in? Pennies are ever-so-slightly larger than dimes, so they essentially have to be stuffed into dime rolls. In standard dime rolls, at least, they're usually fairly noticeable as bulges in the rolls.
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Posted 10/12/2016 2:17 pm
It is in pristine condition.
