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First Question:
Does anyone know of any machines that will sort 40% and 90% halves and well, any other 90% silver too for that matter. Where do you purchase it?

2nd Question:
Does anyone know of a machine that rolls halves and where to get one?

Just curious; where would you get the raw supply of halfs to dump into a machine to make it worth while? Sourcing a large volume of halfs on a continuing basis would be tough unless you were an Armored Service company, or a bank. Or Jackson Metals Corp.

sdmarasso wrote:First Question:
Does anyone know of any machines that will sort 40% and 90% halves and well, any other 90% silver too for that matter. Where do you purchase it?

2nd Question:
Does anyone know of a machine that rolls halves and where to get one?

If you are serious about it than you can PM me.

Be prepared to spend around $4,000-$5,000 on each.

Wow I didn't know there were machines to sort silver.

I only know of ones that reject it but if you call that sorting then yes, they do exist. I know Coinstar brand machines reject silver as does another machine that I use to return my halves. Just checked it today with a 40%er and it works. Makes me feel better that I havent missed anything rim searching.

So those of us who have the banks order us halves might run out of luck if they start using machines like that?

Pennysaved wrote:So those of us who have the banks order us halves might run out of luck if they start using machines like that?

Yea, silver is being culled at that point. Either the person leaves it in the machine (seen this happen a few times) or spends it not knowing what they have. With more and more of these types of machines less and less silver is making it back into circulation.

does anyone really need a machine to sort silver halves? Maybe adam because he can do XXXXXX a day but regular people sorting boxes? You can look at the sides of a roll in 2-3 seconds per roll And the sorting machine isn't going to re roll them for you

Why do they make machines that reject silver? What is the rationale behind that.


I agree you would have to do really high volume in order to justify buying a 5k machine to sort for silver.

Pennysaved wrote:Why do they make machines that reject silver? What is the rationale behind that.


I agree you would have to do really high volume in order to justify buying a 5k machine to sort for silver.

The technology came about because of the Euro. The Euro has some "higher dollar" coins that started to get faked and counterfited a lot so they had engineers from a certain coin equipment company design a machine strickly for sorting out the counterfit coins. This technology than transfered over into kicking out tokens and than onto silver and also copper.

The reason most of you have never heard of it because there very few of them in the USA.

AGCoinHunter wrote:

Pennysaved wrote:So those of us who have the banks order us halves might run out of luck if they start using machines like that?

Yea, silver is being culled at that point. Either the person leaves it in the machine (seen this happen a few times) or spends it not knowing what they have. With more and more of these types of machines less and less silver is making it back into circulation.

Banks are not going to start useing this because they can't short a customer just because the coin is made of silver. Also the machine costs more than a regular one does so they aren't going to want to spend the extra money either.

Pennysaved wrote:Why do they make machines that reject silver? What is the rationale behind that.


I agree you would have to do really high volume in order to justify buying a 5k machine to sort for silver.

And that is just a used one! New machines cost around 25k and if you want the fancy machine that can even sort 40 and 90% into different bags that is going to cost you over 42k!

sdmarasso wrote:First Question:
Does anyone know of any machines that will sort 40% and 90% halves and well, any other 90% silver too for that matter. Where do you purchase it?

2nd Question:
Does anyone know of a machine that rolls halves and where to get one?

Yes, I saw them come onto the scene about 1965. I was 11 years old at the time. You dumped your coins at the top and an electric motor would spin the coins spiraling down a chute. Gravity and inertia would separate the 90% from the copper-clad. That was the beginning of the end for my family sorting coins on a large scale. Silver soon became scarce once the big boys put the machines into play. I am surprised they still don't do it that way. Maybe the cost of the machines is too much to justify it for the small amount of coins you would get now.

It sounds like Highroller has the inside scoop on modern ones!