Attn: All Ryedale owners

[Diver_Down]

I'm curious of determining a percentage of copper/zinc ratio for the 1982 cent.

I don't have one of these machines so I'm asking those that do. You would have to separate all 82's beforehand, and then feed them into the machine. I hand sort and keep the 82's separate. I then weigh the individual coins.

 

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[klava]

Without a Ryedale weighing them is the only way to know for sure. I wait until I have a bowl full then take them to work and weigh them lol

 

[garbageman]

I run my White's XLT detector over them. The copper ones give a higher reading than the zinc ones.

 

[jrf30]

With my Ryedale I never even SEE the 1982's. They just go where they belong on their own. I dump a box into the machine (In about 8 minutes) and it runs thorugh them all. I don't pay attention to ANy dates on ANY of the coins, so 1982 is no different than 1981 or 1983. It just goes where it goes.

I watch the non copper side for rejects I want to keep (1942 and older coppers were a little different composition and get discriminated out, so end up in the reject bucket) but other than looking for older wheats in the reject side I never pay attention to dates.

Once I am done, I go through the coppers looking for wheats. I pull those, then hoard the rest of teh copper (Still not caring if they are 1982 or 1962. Just "copper")

Hope that helps.

 

[Diver_Down]

Let me clarify: I realize that most who use a Ryedale don't care about the dates. Copper is copper. What I'm asking if someone would take the time to sample a box. If enough owners would take the time to sample a box, then there would be a random representative sample to draw statistics from. Right now, I weigh my own when I get enough but I was curious what others might be getting. With not everyone owning a Ryedale, many handsorters are throwing away alot of copper by disregarding the 82's.

 

[XX]

Let me clarify: I realize that most who use a Ryedale don't care about the dates. Copper is copper. What I'm asking if someone would take the time to sample a box. If enough owners would take the time to sample a box, then there would be a random representative sample to draw statistics from. Right now, I weigh my own when I get enough but I was curious what others might be getting. With not everyone owning a Ryedale, many handsorters are throwing away alot of copper by disregarding the 82's.

Given the reasons for why someone would invest in a ryedale, you'll probably be pretty SOL to get one to volunteer to hand sort pennies.

Now, if you wanted to hook up with a ryedale owner to run some 1982 pennies that YOU previously sorted and have them just drop them in for you, I'm sure that would go over much better.

 

[Shake-N-Bake]

Untill this week I hand sorted pennies. I knew for the past two weeks I was getting a Ryedale so I saved all of my 1982's. I had 389 out of the 389, 243 where copper when run thru the machine.

so you are looking at about 63%.


I know others have had about the same %.

I hope this helps.

Jason

 

[Diver_Down]

Thank you, Jason. Also, thanks to Seagates for sending me the link to the realcent forum on the same topic. It seems that a low ratio of 60% and an upper ratio of 80% are copper. For those that hand-sort, keep those 82's.

 

[LemonThrower]

i have a ryedale and I think a LOT of 82's are copper. i would say well more than half.