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<p>[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 1260342, member: 12789"]Okay guys, I do a lot of coin roll searching. I have gotten hand wrapped rolls that were a few coins short, curiously the most of them had the deposit stamp from a local school district. OTOH it always balances out in the end, because especially with hand wrapped cent rolls and even rarely machine wrapped cents - dimes are not quite as uncommon as you would think. I also end up with quite a few foreign coins I would not expect to find, ie South African rand coins, a Portuguese Mozambique 50 centavos from the colonial era.</p><p><br /></p><p>I take all my leftover coins back to banks. Some want them wrapped, some have them go through their coin machines. Never have I been shorted, and on a couple of times I had to tell them with half dollars that I was credited for more coins than I knew for certain that I had, the machine had jammed, they fixed it, but somehow some of the coins were counted 2x.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't stress out over shorted rolls, it is reality - humans created them and they make mistakes. I find it always evens out in the end, usually I find a dime, a Wheat, or an S Mint and all is good.</p><p><br /></p><p>Relax - this is a hobby not a job.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 1260342, member: 12789"]Okay guys, I do a lot of coin roll searching. I have gotten hand wrapped rolls that were a few coins short, curiously the most of them had the deposit stamp from a local school district. OTOH it always balances out in the end, because especially with hand wrapped cent rolls and even rarely machine wrapped cents - dimes are not quite as uncommon as you would think. I also end up with quite a few foreign coins I would not expect to find, ie South African rand coins, a Portuguese Mozambique 50 centavos from the colonial era. I take all my leftover coins back to banks. Some want them wrapped, some have them go through their coin machines. Never have I been shorted, and on a couple of times I had to tell them with half dollars that I was credited for more coins than I knew for certain that I had, the machine had jammed, they fixed it, but somehow some of the coins were counted 2x. I don't stress out over shorted rolls, it is reality - humans created them and they make mistakes. I find it always evens out in the end, usually I find a dime, a Wheat, or an S Mint and all is good. Relax - this is a hobby not a job.[/QUOTE]
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