anyone use a coin sorter/counter?

[awemawson]

I used to get masses of coins to sort and count when I had three launderettes. I started simply by hand, moved to weighing having hand sorted, then had two generations of mechanical sorter / counters. Neither were perfect. Frequent unjamming sessions.

With £1 coins I got to the stage where I could grasp a fistful and weigh them and 99% of the time they were correct (20 to a bag)

I used to get a fair quantity of forgeries - some obvious - others rather crude - I think I still have a bag of forgeries somewhere. Then there were supermarket trolley tokens in several varieties - some passed through undetected others didn't.

Once in plastic bank bags they were grouped in cloth bank bags or seal pouches and lugged into the bank - glad that's over - thinking about it it's probably why my shoulders are so bad !

 

[jenki]

I used to keep all my loose change for Rugby tour. counting it I used those cheap plastic sorting trays and then weighed it on decent kitchen scales and bagged it. Always had a small handful of coins for the inevitable mistakes but that was in the day of local branches and helpful staff. Did consider those supermarket machines untill I found out they charged 8%.