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On a weekly basis, I sort about $600 in pennies and $1,500 in dimes. The dimes are almost tapped out where I am, so I'll bump my cents up to about $750 a week after that. It's hard to keep the Ryedale fed... and I spend the rest of my time re-rolling the zinc so I can turn them back in... cuz that's how they want em over there. If I didn't have to do that, I could easily do double that amount every week.

So how much do you sort?

Around 10k. everything but qtrs. dumping is easy for me, it's just a matter of how many bags I want to haul into the bank.

reddirtcoins wrote:Around 10k. everything but qtrs. dumping is easy for me, it's just a matter of how many bags I want to haul into the bank.

10k a week? Wow! Is it your full time job?

On average, I probably do $150/week between nickels and pennies. I'm a small-time hand sorter. When I’m having a stressful week, I’ll do upwards of $150 in just pennies (sorting is great at relaxing me). My dad (who helps me) will usually do about $100 in nickels a week. So, between the two of us, we probably average only about $250/week in pennies and nickels.

Every once-in-a-while, I’ll snag some halves and dimes from the CU, but not very often.

I hand sort $100 in pennies every week. I also search all the CWR and loose halves I can get my hands on.

$10 or so a week in pennies, $5000 to $6000 a week in halves.

I've designated Monday nights, and sometimes saturdays for my sorting. Every week I just go to the bank and pick up as many bags as they have of pennies and nickels. It's usually around $200 in pennies and $200 in nickels. I have a ryedale so the pennies are done in about 2 hours but the nicks take longer and sometimes get backed up so I'll skip a week for those sometimes. Every once in a while I'll also order $1000 in halves when I have the extra money.

I buy and sort what I'm able to afford each month. I try and get at least one box of nickels and 4 penny boxes. Small time for me, but I've noticed many people on here sort in the hundreds, or even thousands in various denominations each week. Yes, I'm a bit jealous because of that

I do pick up the occasional Silver from the US mint when I see something I like.

lance wrote:

reddirtcoins wrote:Around 10k. everything but qtrs. dumping is easy for me, it's just a matter of how many bags I want to haul into the bank.

10k a week? Wow! Is it your full time job?

Nope.. I'm in IT... I have it down. Everything is on the way home or close at lunchtime. Maybe a few hours after work 2 or 3 times a week and a good saturday here or there. It only gets slow when I stack up on pennies. Anything over a 1000 and it starts slowing down. Plus the buckets start taking up room.

I normally do 10-20 boxes of pennies, 4-10 boxes of nickels maybe 6-9 of dimes and the rest halves. Halves normally is the bulk. I've been know to have a 40+ week but floating that much money around starts to get hard. I almost use 0 of my own cash.

Wow- those amounts are awesome. It looks like I'm definitely low man on the totem pole. I usually do $10-20 in pennies and $10-12 in nickels a week and occasionally pick up a few rolls of halves when the bank has them. It's not a lot, but a little is better than none.

Doctor Steuss wrote:On average, I probably do $150/week between nickels and pennies. I'm a small-time hand sorter. When I’m having a stressful week, I’ll do upwards of $150 in just pennies (sorting is great at relaxing me). My dad (who helps me) will usually do about $100 in nickels a week. So, between the two of us, we probably average only about $250/week in pennies and nickels.

Every once-in-a-while, I’ll snag some halves and dimes from the CU, but not very often.

i agree on the stress relief....except too much hand-sorting causes me to experience different stress....in the form of painful neck strain

Wow... there's some big money being moved every week around here. I wish I had access to half dollars here in Okinawa, but the pennies keep me busy enough. I'm turning 25-30% on those, so I'm saving about $150 in copper every week.

dannan14 wrote:i agree on the stress relief....except too much hand-sorting causes me to experience different stress....in the form of painful neck strain :(

I've never had problems with neck strain (thank goodness), but I've got to either cut back, or change how I sort, because between working on a computer at work all day, and sorting at night, I think I'm starting to get carpal-tunnel.

Hopefully if I have to get a wrist/hand brace, the ladies will be impressed as I regale them with my war stories of sorting pennies.

One trick I tell new-sorters around here with no funds is to get an open-ended line of credit. You go down and draw money out, order your coins, sort/dump and put the money back in. It only costs a few bucks if you do it really fast. I think 2-4k for three days is about 6$. It's what I call the start with someone elses money. If you hit good for a few months you can pull enough profit and start another account with that profit. Then you don't have to draw on the line of credit. (which I still do when I order 20k+). It took me about a year to stash away 5k in profit for my slush account and after I get off of this hoarding spree I'll trade up and pull a little profit to build the account to about 30k to play with. All I might add did not come out of my paycheck. Yes theres the time and effort and gas but I don't count that.

usually about $50 a week by hand.

it's still just my relaxation at night. working on my 4th 6 gallon bucket.

side note: 'bout halfway through a $50 bag and it's by faar the best i've seen, estimated 60% copper, 1 indian head and probably about 20-22 wheats.

I pick up 3 to 5 50 dollar bags each week, and sort about 2 or 3 each week.... my unsorted pile of bags is starting to pile up,,,,,

Hawkeye wrote:Wow- those amounts are awesome. It looks like I'm definitely low man on the totem pole. I usually do $10-20 in pennies and $10-12 in nickels a week and occasionally pick up a few rolls of halves when the bank has them. It's not a lot, but a little is better than none.

+1 to that! Some is always better than NONE!

Mon, Wed, Fri - $4000 Halfs x 3
Tues, Thur - $1000 dimes x 2
Sat, Sun - $500-1000 pennies.
Average $15k a week, depending on what's coming in the banks. As long as I enjoy it I'll keep doing it. The minute it gets to be a job... I'll quit.

ryedales been on the shelf since silver went to 30.

Cu Later wrote:ryedales been on the shelf since silver went to 30.

I don't understand. You're not sorting pennies since the price of silver is low?

Aren't silver coins from the bank still face value when you can find them?

i sort copper & buy silver. have to run my FRNs
through copper first but just been lazy.

$50 to $200 a month in pennies and an occasional box of dimes and nickels

I'm up to $200 in nickels a week. I plan ok ramping that up soon to include some dimes and halves.

PMLurker wrote:

Cu Later wrote:ryedales been on the shelf since silver went to 30.

I don't understand. You're not sorting pennies since the price of silver is low?

Aren't silver coins from the bank still face value when you can find them?

I think he meant that he has ramped up silver sorting since silver shot up significantly compared to several years ago. I tried to get into silver sorting, but the return was so low that I have gone back to exclusively sorting pennies.

I've slowed down a bit over the past couple months...
Currently my average week is:
17K-20K in Halves
3K-4K in Dimes
100-200 in Cents (though admittedly I have 24 boxes queued up so I don't always get to these)