Anyone using a compartitor for quarters?

[BCD11]

Does a anyone use a coin comparitor to sort quarters? If you do, what is the make and model?

 

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[jrf30]

Does a anyone use a coin comparitor to sort quarters? If you do, what is the make and model?

The ratio of silver quarter is SOOO rare, and so easy to SEE when you edge search that is makes NO sense to use a mchine like that for quarters.

Seriously.

 

[Generic_Lad]

Agreed, the time/money to calibrate a compartitor for quarters is not worth it in the long run. Honestly, I think the same thing for dimes because the edges are so easy to see, and same with halves...

Really all I'd use one for is copper hoarding because it would make it 100x easier.

 

[BillyOceansEleven]

Ditto to what Generic_Lad and jrf30 said. To me the only reason to use a comparitor is when identifying the coin is difficult or slow with the naked eye (i.e., all pennies look the same from the edges). Silver dimes, quarters, and halves are relatively easy to pick out from the edge, so it doesn't seem like it would be worth the expense of a machine or the wear on that machine for those coins.

 

[madwest]

I'm with the majority when it comes to Halves. Searching them by the edge is the way to go.
My feeling on Quarters is . . .

. . . searching Dimes. . . a cumulative 10 minutes of . . . machine . . .

 

[BCD11]

Thanks everyone for weighing in, I appreciate your comments.

The 90% halves are easy for me to pick out. The 40'ers give me fits.

As for quarters, even when I put some 90%'ers next to the clads I sometimes have trouble telling the difference...don't get old there's no future to it. Not that seeing a difference matters much. I date sorted $2,000 worth of quarters and got skunked. Comparitor sorted another $1,000 and got skunked. Thought I probably didn't get the comparitor tuned fine enough so date sorted those and got skunked again.

Me thinks I'll leave the silver hunting to you specialists. I'll sort pennies like mad, sell the copper, and buy silver.

Again, thanks for your comments.

 

[ArkieBassMan]

... Me thinks I'll leave the silver hunting to you specialists. I'll sort pennies like mad, sell the copper, and buy silver.

Again, thanks for your comments.

And I'll wager you'll be more "profitable" than about 95%+ of us "specialists."

 

[BCD11]

... Me thinks I'll leave the silver hunting to you specialists. I'll sort pennies like mad, sell the copper, and buy silver.

Again, thanks for your comments.

And I'll wager you'll be more "profitable" than about 95%+ of us "specialists."

I wasn't going to say it Arkie bu-u-u-u-t, after reading post after post of multiple boxes with no keepers, and my own experience of what seemed like a bazillion quarters and nothing, I've about concluded copper is my friend. I understand some people/regions are more fertile than others. I also thought I hit the motherlode on my first $1,000 of halves. But, skunkola on my next $2,000 of halves AND gumming up the coin counter at my dump bank with those halves pretty much convinced me plodding along with my little coppers is the way to CRH success...or at least insanity.

So fellow CRH'ers, except for the occasional time I'll fall off the wagon and get some halves to sort, take heart in the fact that all of those silvers I would be pulling out of circulation will still be there for you.

Again, thanks to everyone that took the time share their opinion.

 

[jrf30]

Me thinks I'll leave the silver hunting to you specialists. I'll sort pennies like mad, sell the copper, and buy silver.

That's the way to do it. You can buy a LOT of silver with the profits from copper selling at 1.6X face value. :-)