Until my Ryedale gets here, I'm stuck sorting cents by hand. I've only done $100 in the last week, but in that small amount, I've come across some good percentages, so I'm not complaining. Half of my boxes were already searched by someone else, as it had markings on the boxes and each individual rolls. They weren't pulling the coppers though, and I suspect they were after the wheat cents... as I didn't find any in those $50. However, I did manage to pull 13 from the remaining $50.
But I was actually surprised at the amount of other crap that finds it way into penny rolls. I probably got $1 worth of dimes, but interesting enough, I found what I would consider an odd amount of foreign and other odd stuff.
Plastic play penny
Magic coin penny
various foreign coins
And a penny that someone took their time with and actually snipped it multiple times all the way around the edges. Someone has too much time on their hands I guess (But I should talk since I hand sorted $100 worth of pennys- LOL)
Also found a penny that was really weak struck. You can barely make ole Abe out. I put a full struck one next to it so you could see how weak it is. It stuck out on my tray so I put it in the odd pile.
So that begs the question... what kids of odds and ends to you find in your sorting adventures?