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I had to clean up my sorting area so I decided to sort pennies last weekend (usually I am sorting halfs.) I layed out $3000 dollars in bags and had my 3.5 gallon buckets ready. By the end of the weekend I had $2415 in zinc/$585 in copper. 19.5% - sorting pennies these days is a lot harder than it seems. Thankfully they were in bags so I just had to dump them. If they were in rolls... I don't know what I would have done. Now I have to go dump the zincs it is so annoying spending money on bags to dump zincs.

mtldealer wrote:I had to clean up my sorting area so I decided to sort pennies last weekend (usually I am sorting halfs.) I layed out $3000 dollars in bags and had my 3.5 gallon buckets ready. By the end of the weekend I had $2415 in zinc/$585 in copper. 19.5% - sorting pennies these days is a lot harder than it seems. Thankfully they were in bags so I just had to dump them. If they were in rolls... I don't know what I would have done. Now I have to go dump the zincs it is so annoying spending money on bags to dump zincs.

This is a big weekend, great job.

Wow! I have $300 in bags waiting to be sorted and I thought that was a lot.

howd you guys get the penny bags? did you call your bank and place a order for say a 500 dollar bag?

Beervestor,

Penny bags come from coin counting machines, some banks sell their penny bags from the coin counters, some don't. $50 per bag.

I got my second Ryedale last week (first apprentice, second maxx) and am very happy with both of them. I hand sorted for a while and now do machine sorting. The rhythem of the Ryedale is in my opinion calming. I'll post pics tommorow of the sort.

Beervestor wrote:howd you guys get the penny bags? did you call your bank and place a order for say a 500 dollar bag?

You have to find the right bank... Some will sell you bags some won't. You have to be extemely nice but persistent. Ten No's and then a Yes is a good thing.