handsorting speed record?? $200 in 5 minutes

[aaa30040]

The only reason it took so long is because I walked the boxes in from the car $50 at a time and was opening with scissors instead of razor.

$200 bank wrapped rolls

100% 2011s
0% copper

[Robarons]

Oh wow you might have wanted to save those 2011's in the bank wrapped rolls. Dealers like them and some people here might have wanted them.

Mintages of halves have been falling for years- maybe only 2 million per mint- in comparison of the BILLIONS of Pennies, dimes and quarters minted

[MUTiger]

Went to the bank yesterday and asked for two boxes. They brought 2 NF String where you can see the ends of the rolls. All new rolls. The other teller says "you're the guy that wants old ones right?" I said yes and they found 2 others that had some old one peeking out of the holes. One box wrapped by them and the other by String. I have yet to see what is in there.
I got 26 other rolls that are in the Brinks plastic wrap that are mostly new with one or two brown ones mixed in. Odd how that happened.

MUTiger

[willy13]

one of my banks have had 2011 boxes for the last 3 weeks. luckily my other 2 banks have not...

[HoardCopperByTheTon]

The only reason it took so long is because I walked the boxes in from the car $50 at a time and was opening with scissors instead of razor.

If you are going to do 8 boxes at a time you might want to consider a couple of carry bags or a cart.

[avidbrandy]

psh. I did this with $25 boxes, and it was $950 worth.

[crazypennyguy]

Irony aside, that's incredible.

Ever think of filling out an application at Guinness World Records for speed hand-sorting?

[knibloe]

Get a scale and weight the boxes before you open them. The more copper the heavier they are. Someone help me out an remind me what the weight of a pure zinc box would be. Was it 14#?? A full boz of Copper would weigh 17# right??

[exbingoaddict]

Oh wow you might have wanted to save those 2011's in the bank wrapped rolls. Dealers like them and some people here might have wanted them.

Mintages of halves have been falling for years- maybe only 2 million per mint- in comparison of the BILLIONS of Pennies, dimes and quarters minted

I considered that thought when I got some bad rolls. However, I saw L&C coin was selling them for $2.00 a roll. At that point I threw in the towl.

[penny pretty]

at coinshop yesterday new 2011 rolls selling for 5 bux each!!

[willy13]

Get a scale and weight the boxes before you open them. The more copper the heavier they are. Someone help me out an remind me what the weight of a pure zinc box would be. Was it 14#?? A full boz of Copper would weigh 17# right??

I do that with the boxes i get. Any variance in cardboard weight would obviously effect the accuracy in guessing the copper percentage. My string and son 100% zinc boxes weight 14# 1oz. Most of my boxes weight an even 15# which equates to 26% copper. As a hand sorter, I always sort the heavier boxes first.... the heaviest box I have had was recently 15# 8 oz.

[HoardCopperByTheTon]

When I used to weigh the boxes before sorting I would always sort the lighter boxes first. That way I got my capital cycled faster and I was storing more unsorted copper than unsorted zinc in my to be processed pile.

[exbingoaddict]

at coinshop yesterday new 2011 rolls selling for 5 bux each!!

I'm selling a 2011 ASE 25th set for $10,000 dollars. Nobody is buying though. You can put whatever price tag on an item you please. Doesn't mean it's selling though.