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Before I run off to the LCS to buy a nice indian head...

Have any of you experimented with an IH or early wheat cent in the comparator to pick up those coins? If so, did it do a good job of picking up the 95%?

I'd love to hear of any similar experiments you've tried and what the outcomes were.

IHs have given me poor results with the copper pull. I think the copper content from back them was all over the place.

Doug

I seem to remember that guys that did this had their best luck with 1907 Indian cent. I have not done it.. I just pluck them out of that nice shiny bed of zincs.

You could always just buy a nice Indian from another member here.

My method is to use a zinc accept on the first run. This should reject everything that isn't a zinc. Then I do a copper accept on a different Ryedale.( I have 4 Ryedales) The second run keeps all coppers and rejects anything that isn't. I usually have a handful of coins that got rejected. I have found IH's and early wheats. The 1936 being the most common.

If you want to experiment, get a sample of 250 mixed coins including wheats from the teens to the 50's and a few different date IH's. Run them using different reference coins and check the results.

I started out double-sorting all the pennies, first with a copper penny and the sensitivity at minimum. Then I would sort the rejects with a zinc penny and the sensitivity turned up a third, and then the coppers with a copper penny and the sensitivity turned up a third. This works well but I was getting tired of it so I considered changing to doing the zinc sort first and then only sorting the rejects for copper, with the sensitivity turned up a third all the time. That way, I would only be double-sorting 20 or 25% of the pennies, and whatever was left over from both sorts would be older wheats, indian heads, mis-read coppers, stray zincs, corroded or mutilated coins, and steel Canadians.

I asked Andy about this and he said "I sort everything first with the 1/3 sensitivity and a zinc penny, then do the copper search. Not so much for the wear out factor of the machine, but mostly for the time savings."

So, this is what I do all the time now. It saves a lot of time, and I do get a lot of wheats, Indian Heads occasionally, and even dimes sometimes. There is some hand-searching at the end but it's less than 1% of the initial batch.

Thanks everyone. I'll try some of your methods and see how they work.

slickeast wrote:My method is to use a zinc accept on the first run. This should reject everything that isn't a zinc. Then I do a copper accept on a different Ryedale.( I have 4 Ryedales) The second run keeps all coppers and rejects anything that isn't. I usually have a handful of coins that got rejected. I have found IH's and early wheats. The 1936 being the most common.

If you want to experiment, get a sample of 250 mixed coins including wheats from the teens to the 50's and a few different date IH's. Run them using different reference coins and check the results.

what he said......