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I weigh and keep track of each bag I get from the bank. Anything under 29 lbs is going to be a slow sort. Anything over is a nice percentage over 25% copper.
Weighed one tonight at 31.25 lbs.
When the Rydale was finished sorting, I had right at 20.5 lbs of copper and the copper totaled $30.35. That is 60.7 % copper.
The best bag I have ever had.
By the way, the next one I weighed was 28 lbs. Had one like that awhile back and it only had 3.5 lbs of copper and $5.50 copper with 10% copper.
Going to see if the bank will take it back since it is still unopened.
Good hunting to you.

I doubt they'd take it back but just run it back through the machine. Same thing.

Since you own a ryedale, why not take the 10% copper. I know 10% sucks, but it isn't far from the 18% that some guys regularly get. Now if you were a hand sorter, that might be a different story.

I never weigh, I just let the Ryedale figure it out.

I picked up 3 bags yesterday and one of them was noticeably heavier than the other 2 when I was loading them in the car. I just finished sorting the heavy bag and got a whopping 80.84% which equaled $40.42! A lot of the coins were dirty and had been dug from the ground (I metal detect so it was apparent right away). I only found 5 wheats in the whole bag but this is by far the biggest score I have ever found.

If you get customer return bags from the bank (bags off the machines), you will get some with 100% copper soon or later. I have had several over the past month.

sometimes when people pass along, their family takes their coin to the bank and some of the elderly stopped saving change in the 1970's, hence the 100% copper. Nice find, saves a lot of work.

I never weigh, I just let the Ryedale figure it out.

Slickeast:
I weigh every bag I get and keep a record along with the final weight in copper, amount of copper then the percentage of copper.
I am trying to get a large enough data base so that I can plot all of this someday and develop a chart that will tell me how much copper I can expect when I weigh a bag.
Sounds boring but I do this while listening to the Ryedale go click, click click.
Oh the fun things we do in the name of this hobby.
Baggerman:
80.84 %. That is great. My best is 60.70 % or $30.35 copper on a bag that weighed 31.25 lbs.

baggerman wrote:I picked up 3 bags yesterday and one of them was noticeably heavier than the other 2 when I was loading them in the car. I just finished sorting the heavy bag and got a whopping 80.84% which equaled $40.42! A lot of the coins were dirty and had been dug from the ground (I metal detect so it was apparent right away). I only found 5 wheats in the whole bag but this is by far the biggest score I have ever found.

http://www.realcent.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=10480

There is my best bag. Same situation, lots of copper few wheats. I think they knew to save them out back then.

mutiger