The past 2 days - 10-02-2007 and 10-03-2007

[GMan00001]

Well did my typical Tuesday run, but none of the banks had much this week.

only 3 - $50 bags of pennies

So since I still had cash I also picked up a $1000 bag of quarters.

Oh and 2 loose half dollars, of which 1 was a 1967


Today, on my way to meet someone I decided to pick up a box of nickels to get my nickel fix for the week.

And then since I still had time before closing I stopped by a second bank and picked up a 10 more rolls of nickels and $6.50 in half dollars. As she was getting out the halves she commented, "Some of these are old".

Turns out of the 13 half dollars, 7 of them were Franklins (1952-D, 1954, 1959-D, 1960, 1961, 1962-D, 1963-D)

Boy was I glad I didn't skip that stop as I almost did.

 

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[GMan00001]

From the bag of quarters....

2 Canadian (1989, 1993)
1 penny

From the box of nickels...
1 - 1943-P War nickel
20 other pre-1960 Jeffeson (1941-S Small S, 1946, 1949, 1952, 1952-D, 1954-D(2), 1956, 1957-D(3), 1958-D(4), 1959(2), 1959-D(3))
2 Canadian (1985, 1994)

From the 10 rolls of nickels
5 pre-1960 Jefferson (1940, 1947-D(2), 1958-D(2))
2 Canadian (1988, 1992)

 

[TxTim]

Great snag on those Bens!
Can't beat that ratio!

 

[packerbacker]

Don't you just hate it when you go in to buy something and they sell you the "old" stuff!

 

[thurmownator]

And then since I still had time before closing I stopped by a second bank and picked up a 10 more rolls of nickels and $6.50 in half dollars. As she was getting out the halves she commented, "Some of these are old".

Turns out of the 13 half dollars, 7 of them were Franklins (1952-D, 1954, 1959-D, 1960, 1961, 1962-D, 1963-D)

Boy was I glad I didn't skip that stop as I almost did.

Nicely done there gman !!

 

[GMan00001]

Did two of the penny bags tonight.

Bag #1:
12 wheat pennies (1927, 1934, 1939, 1940-D, 1944, 1946, 1949-D, 1953-D, 1955, 1957-D, 1958-D(2))

22 Canadian (1945, 1966, 1970, 1973, 1976(2), 1977(2), 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983(3), 1985, 1989, 1992, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004)


Bag #2:
16 wheat pennies (1940(2), 1940-D, 1941-D, 1944, 1945(2), 1945-D, 1946-D, 1947-D, 1950-D, 1953-D, 1955, 1956-D, 1957-D(2))

24 Canadian (1962, 1963, 1967(2), 1974(2), 1976(2), 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984(2), 1985, 1991(2), 1992(2), 1993(2), 1997, 1998, 2001)

1 Quarter

 

[GMan00001]

Just finished the last bag of pennies from this batch...

Not bad.

21 wheat pennies (1934, 1941, 1941-D(2), 1942, 1944, 1944-D(2), 1946, 1946-D, 1948-S, 1951, 1951-D, 1955-D, 1956-D(2), 1957-D, 1958-D(4))

24 Canadian (1960(2), 1962, 1964(2), 1965, 1967(2), 1970, 1974, 1977(2), 1978, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1995, 1997, 1999(2), 2000)

1 Foreign (Australia, 5 Cents (2002))

 

[coincollector101]

Sweet finds gman.

Are you savin the copper?
Do you have a ryedale yet that will speed thinks up for you, to sort more coins

Happy hunting,
CC

 

[GMan00001]

Are you savin the copper?

Not much only the S minted and the early and low minted memorials.

Do you have a ryedale yet that will speed thinks up for you, to sort more coins

I could sort more coins, but unless I change my sorting strategy it wouldn't really benefit me since I check for double dies and wide AM/close AM varieties on a number of zincolns which therefore requires me to read every date. Might buy one some day soon, but since I don't save the coppers right now the benefit is not significant enough to bother. I'll have to think about that one more later and tomorrow is another day.

Oh and since I am on the subject of the Ryedale. I am not exactly familiar with it, but I have the impression it sorts everything that matches a sample coin in one pile and the rest into the reject pile. For example, if you place a copper cent as the selector, it will sort all coppers into one side and call everything else rejects.

I may regret this since it may improve the efficiency of users of the Ryedale, but what I was wondering is why everybody descirbes a need to sort the coins twice. As I understand it the sorting process is sort them once to remove the copper (and hand sort out the wheaties) and once to remove the zincolns from the original rejects to get the older wheaties.

Why wouldn't you just sort the first time to match the zincolns and call the copper, old wheats, and other odd foreign coins etc the rejects. From there just hand sort out the Canadian/wheaties/and other non copper from the "reject" pile. Just seems simpler and should be faster as the majority of the coins are zincolns. Optionally of course you could run the "copper rejects" through a second time and remove out the misc foreign and possibly older wheats instead of handsorting, but you would still be left with handsorting to remove the newer wheaties if I understand correctly.

Can someone confirm if I am correct?