Your Fastest Sorting Method

[mortarman]

I have a hell of a time fumbling with machine rolled anything, and have been wondering how to speed up the process. Maybe line them all up end to end in a half pvc pipe and run a razor down the sides, ala MaDeuce and his nickels. Curious to hear what works best for yall.

[68Camaro]

I have a hell of a time fumbling with machine rolled anything, and have been wondering how to speed up the process. Maybe line them all up end to end in a half pvc pipe and run a razor down the sides, ala MaDeuce and his nickels. Curious to hear what works best for yall.

They need to be blade split, that's for sure. For me the time spent to pull them out and line them up to do what you suggest hasn't seemed like a time advantage. I just slit them one at a time and flex them open into a bucket. I can do about 20 rolls a minute. Trash can and bucket side by side next to a table with the opened box. Grab, slit, flex and pop, wrapper in trash as I grab for the next. Blade needs to be extremely sharp, as in a razor, or what I use is a serrated blade (a spyderco), as the serrations (which I keep sharp as well) seem to do a better job for me of grabbing the wrapper and ensuring it has been damaged enough to open.

[dan53]

It depends on what your sorting. Currently, I am only sorting paper, fed wrapped halves. I call em' shotgun rolls. Thats because on the ends they are tucked in like a shot gun shell. When I re-roll, I use the same wrapper the coins came in. I take a flat head screw driver and pry open one end and use my thumb to push the coins out from the other end. After inspection, I take ten at the time and dump them back in the roll diagonally. Then you push with your thumb from the opposite end to level them out. Then fold the top.

Thats the method I use for paper, fed wrapped halves. Now for paper, fed wrapped pennies, nickel, and dimes, its a different procedure. After undoing one end of the roll with a screw driver, its to hard, if not impossible to push the coins out with your thumb. You need a sharpie (thats a writing instrument), and a damp rag. Now it doesn't have to be a sharpie, it just has to be something about 6 inches long and about the diameter of a pen or pencil. After opening one end of the roll with the screw driver, dampen one hand with the rag and grasp the roll with that hand. Then push the coins out from opposite end that was opened. For a while I was doing it without the damp rag maneuver and it was tough. Having a damp hand makes the paper sort of stick to your palm and it makes pushing the coins out easy. This is especially true on dimes.

I take from 30 minutes to one hour to sort a box of halves. Thats sorted and re-wrapped.

Remember, you heard it here folks. The soon to be famous sharpie and damp rag method of sortin' coins!

[aloneibreak]

best way ive found for paper wrapped pennies is to take a roll in each hand and smash them together right in the center across each other

one roll will break almost in half, push the coins out of each end and grab another roll

ive also used the edge of the table or a five gallon bucket but that tended to make more of a mess

i almost never sort halves but the flat head screwdriver like dan said is what i do

i dont reuse the wrappers though so i can tear the whole ring off then push the coins out

[Kurr]

Bent nosed, needle nose pliers.

Grab the roll in your weak hand with pliers in strong hand.

Grab the ring of paper on the end and rip it off the bottom part of roll, by your pinky.

Use the bent end of the pliers still holding the paper ring to push coins from tube up by your thumb.

If any stick, a sharp movement/shake down into your bucket clears the roll.

Open hand to drop ring and tube in trash/fireplace.

Rinse and repeat as neccesary.

[zerocd]

Bent nosed, needle nose pliers.

Grab the roll in your weak hand with pliers in strong hand.

Grab the ring of paper on the end and rip it off the bottom part of roll, by your pinky.

Use the bent end of the pliers still holding the paper ring to push coins from tube up by your thumb.

If any stick, a sharp movement/shake down into your bucket clears the roll.

Open hand to drop ring and tube in trash/fireplace.

Rinse and repeat as neccesary.

This!

I use regular pliers though. I have used both but got used to using the corner of the flat jaws and peal in a circular movement to unwrap. Can do them in my sleep. Trash can on one side and I just lay them out in rows on a big table. I might lay out 3-4 boxes unwrapped to look at the edges. I always find more silver looking at the faces. Some 40%ers can slip past you if you don't.

0CD

[PennyBoy]

If I had kids I'd just "bribe" them to do it, since you're going to buy them whatever it is you bribe them with anyways.

[Oakair]

Brinks plastic wrapped dimes

Takes me about 3 minutes to sort a box...and I can slide out any suspect coins and slide em right back in after I'm disappointed haha

With the String rolls or other double crimped...I stick them in a Customer Wrapper and get the bottom folded, take it out and roll open the roll...and then just slide the customer roll along the paper and rewrap all the clads...Takes about 20 minutes a box to open and rewrap

[mortarman]

The plastics are awesome for sorting fast, but I've found I'm able to dump a much higher quantity and ensure they aren't locally reintroduced into the money supply by taking bags of loose clads to BoA to ship away, while obtaining instant credit. That's the lynch pin in the whole operation, being strapped as we are.