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jadedragon
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Canada
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 Posted - 09/16/2008 : 20:13:50
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Originally posted by SANITARIUM_INMATE
I only get a couple hours at home for sorting and the unforgiving task of rolling zincs. I have a sweet job selling parts at a dealership which gives me a little down time but me and my co workers are searching the dollar coins for errors. As a collector then hoarder and error searcher I would much rather keep all the goodies I can find which is why I like to hand sort.
If you like Dollar Coins, check out my "Free Money from the Mint" thread. You can order BU dollar coins from the Mint, no premium, no shipping cost. Use your credit card (hopefully collecting miles or % cash back), sort for errors, and deposit against the credit card before it is due. Pretty much a "can't loose" deal.
If you don't like rolling zincs (do any of us?) try ordering a "4 deep" Royal Soveregn machine. It automates the sorting for about $80-$90 bucks (eBay has them listed). You will really appreciate not having to count stacks anymore! You can buy shotgun shells and let the machine fill them. Or if you are cheaper, beg for free new flat paper rolls, or just recycle the ones you emptied already. If you don't use perfect new shotgun shells you must dump each stack of coins into the coin roll by hand, but you are doing that by hand now. Once you get your technique down, you can just pour the coins in in one pass.
There are actually 1 to 4 roll deep versions of the unit. They all size sort Dimes, Pennies, Nickels, and Quarters in that order, and are really designed to deal with mixed change at a small business. All are 4 rolls wide (DPNQ) but the differance is how many rolls deep. I suggest the 4 deep version because it is only about $30 more then the single deep version.
The 4 deep shoves the coin tubes forward when they are full, so you can be dumping coins into rolls from the front tubes while it keeps filling the back tubes. Once the tubes are all full, it stops - so a 4 deep allows you to empty tubes while the counter keeps working instead of having the counter stop every tube to wait for you.
Sometimes I just load the thing up with mixed coin, hit start, and go do something else. I'll come back, quickly dump the coin tubes into rolls, then hit start and go do something else. Therefore I spend zero time waiting for it to count, and I get other things done (like posting here )
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Tip for hand sorters.
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