What Is Your Strategy?

If I do cents, it's more about seperating copper and zincs. Sorting by date for noted varieties found on a site like coppercoins.com or varietyvista.com. And of course taking out any wheats and other different coins. Pretty simple process, and it makes it more fun.

So far I have been keeping all the copper, 1996 and older. (Canada)

I use a magnet to separate the steel from the zinc and copper.
The magnet is inside of a small plastic bucket, I spread the coins out in a thin layer, then scan the bucket over the coins.
The steel coins can be easily released from the bottom of the bucket by reaching in the bucket and lifting the magnet.
Then the zinc is sorted by date, 1997 and up.
This helps for looking for specific magnetic or non-magnetic varieties.

It works fairly well so far. I'm trying to decide weather to sort the copper buy year, which complicates storage.

I am also debating whether I should keep zinc and steel, since we no longer make a penny. So far I have been taking the steel and zinc back to exchange for more mixed copper boxes.

Interesting on the "stricktly edge search the clad" ,FFD. I guess it's safe to say that you don't inspect the modern clad for errors and varieties.

I can't help but wonder what falls into the "other" category, my poll is incomplete. lol