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I have a part of a tube with what looks like at least 2 1960 P Small date uncirculated cents. I can see the top and bottom obverse. Any suggestions on how to remove? I have removed as much of the tube using pliers to break the plastic. I am afraid keep going. Thanks Steve
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Tapping the corner on the desk or floor is the best way, once a few pop out the other often start to free up but it takes a lot of work. They can be tough, I've beat some with a hammer on the bottom.
People try cold/hot but that doesn't help me, I just tap them.
Cutting may have helped or made it more deformed and harder.
I'd try more tapping and be careful, if you get brutal it can bounce and hit you.
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Freezing over night or longer works fine for me. The freeze makes the plastic brittle and when you pound on it with a hammer against concrete or something other hard (hit the bottom of the tube where it is thick and not in contact with a coin) the tube tends to shatter.Comment
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I would agree with roller. Freeze them over night. Hit them on something hard, floor, wood then hit them on the edge. Most of the time the tube will break or be easier to crack if it has been frozen. I would try this immediately after the freezer. Don't let them thaw in that old tube..Comment
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Freezer it will go. Thanks for the quick responses. SteveComment
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Freezer work!! Took out of freezer struck with hammer coins came out tube split. Thanks ���� SteveComment
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Well I have to admit after I put them on paper towels to dry, spent a couple of hours on a nap ���� I looked thru a a roll or so of other coins I decided to put them up until tonight. I am still a little unsure on ID if the 1 is level or lower than the 9. I found a 1960 P in a roll from the bank and thought it was small date. More I looked I am not sure. I “won” a small date from Chuck Daugherty auction to be able to see a piece that is a small date. Still have a problem with confidence. So after work I will look and advise. Thanks for the help and interest. SteveComment
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I find the shape of the 6 in the date a dead give away for either small or large. The small has a larger belly extending toward the north; the large is a tighter curve.Comment
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I think the coins have already been removed at this point, but for the future, try a hot knife. Over the years, I've tried every method I've heard of, and once you get this method down, it takes under two minutes to have the coins out, and I've never damaged a single one, and I don't have to put up with condensation, etc. that other methods yield. Use the type of hot knife that woodworkers use. Dremel makes one that you can pick up for under $20.
“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”Comment
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The hot knife looks like a great method!Comment
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I look at the top section of the 6, it's much shorter and stubby on the SDs.
In looking at tons of D rolls, they were always solid either LD or SD. I never found a mixed roll. Maybe if they rolled right at the transition they could be mixed but I've never seen one.
Also, never seen an OBW of SD plains. I've seen tubed rolls. I've never found a SD plain among the LD plain rolls that I searched, all were solid LDs.Comment
Be verwy verwy quiet... I'm hunting coins!!! 
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