Roll significantly short-changed?

[brian0918]

What's the most a single roll was short on an unopened box of halves?

I just opened up my 2nd box of halves ever, and one of the rolls on top is short 5 halves! How does that even happen?!

[mflugher]

On a sealed box of halves? I've opened dozens, i know its not that many for most of you guys, never seen one short. I reroll after checking and always recount, don't want my dump bank to be pissed.


CWR boxes no dice, you could end up with anything... Sometimes I get dimes in penny rolls, once even got a merc dime while sorting pennies...

[beauanderos]

I stopped getting boxes when one $500 box was 26 pieces short. Plus they wanted to charge $5 per box... and I wasn't finding more than one 40% in every three or four. Not worth the effort any more.

[BamaJoe]

I've had boxes both short and over - it all seems to pretty much even out in the long run. My pickup of 10 boxes last week was over every box by at least 1 and for the 10 I ended up with 29 extra halves.

[chris6084]

Never had one over, but I have had some short.

[cesariojpn]

How does that even happen?!

One possibility: I have a set of those coin tubes where they have a slot that you can dump out the excess coins and roll the prescribed quantity. I noticed recently that the tubes are grossly inaccurate (at least for pennies).

County fair was in town, so I decided to roll up some zinc for extra fair money. My bank has a location open on Sunday in a Wal-Mart, so I figured I use it as a "dump bank." It was a good thing I counted before I rolled the tubes, because the tube would've shorted me 2-3 cents per roll. Figure the tube was made to accommodate both copper and zinc, but with copper out of the equation.....

Could it be possible that there is a measurement difference between the 90%, 40%, and Clad Halves edge wise?

[brian0918]

Could it be possible that there is a measurement difference between the 90%, 40%, and Clad Halves edge wise?

I don't believe so, from my experience. Certainly not enough of a difference to explain ONE roll being short by FIVE halves.

Also, these are machine wrapped by Brinks, or one of those companies. These are not hand-wrapped rolls.

[Chief]

I once had a dime sideways in a roll. No good...