Has anyone run tests with a super sensitive zinc accept? What were the results?
I run high sensitive zinc first and also sort thru them individually..... The IHs and early wheats still get accepted even on high sensitive zinc accept...
I compare with an 09' zinc, which I've tested different years and for some reason the 09' zinc I use is best on my machine....out of a bag of 5000 I end up with approx. 3500 accepted coins that only take one trip thru the Ryedale....I've found re-running the zincs with a copper accept is pointless because the high sensitive zinc run is very accurate...I use to run them thru again with a copper accept and occasionally had one or two copper drop that I missed....so to save time and wear and tear I run them only once now....When I'm sorting the zinc accepts I sort the 82' to 08' memorials from the 09s and newer and run the two piles thru my counter to get a percentage for the new pennies in circulation, and how they increase over time, along with the percentage of zinc per bag.....
Of the approx. 1500 rejects from the first run, I run them thru on a high sensitive copper accept and average about 40 zinc rejects in that run, so the approx. 1500 coins from the first run go thru the Ryedale twice...and for each bag of 5000 coins I run approx. 6500 thru my Ryedale....My copper accepts are also sorted thru individually after the 40 or so zincs are removed....
The individual sorting really doesn't take that long....at first it seemed to, but I compare the task to learning to play a new instrument....at first you're slow and tedious, but the more practice you do the quicker and more efficient you become...I randomly check myself for lack of concentration by re-sorting some that I feel I may have sorted without really concentrating on and I find I rarely make a mistake and accidentally push something into the wrong bin.....concentration is key and I find it best to only do so much individual sorting in one sitting....
I'm looking at this a bit more from a collector standpoint than a copper hording standpoint.
I'm in the same boat....I feel the effort it takes to get the coins deserves the max. effort to extract all the potential available....returning something of value in a dump is unacceptable....
I enjoy the treasure hunt more then the speed at which my CU hoard grows, so the time involved to sort is a testament to what it takes to collect and hoard at the same time.....I'd hate to imagine I owned a 14D or 1877 IH and dumped it due to inefficiency.
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