What Is Your Technique?

I would like to add a question to this also.

I have read a little bit about the american bank system, coin vaults, armored car services and making sure to dump outside of your coin vault area. My question is, do we have the same system in Canada? How does it work here? Right now I am dumping in another city (same bank company, RBC) how can I know if those coins might end up back at my original RBC?

Thanks

One word;

Volume. :)

At my local RBC, it seems if their penny stock runs low in a given week (more go out than come in) they order more from another RBC branch in the province. This has happened about 4 times that I know of in the last six months, and all ordered from different branches. The most common box origin for me is from the same branch where I pick up. It seems very unlikely you'd end up with a whole box at branch A that was actually your dump at branch B (then transferred back to A), but not impossible.

Good to know about the RBC, I think I might start marking my rolls to see.

What about sorting, anybody else want to share?

Depends on the denomination.

Cents: I go through one at a time (most time consuming)
along with nickels next as far as time.
Dimes: Only look for silver or canadian varieties etc.
Maybe keep another foreign coin every now and then.
Gave up on the 82/83 No P
Quarters: Only silver. Might keep some brinks clear wrap BU's.
Half's: Only silver. Do not care much about any of the DDO / DDR's really in the clad. Like to find the magicians coins also.
Ike's: silver, nicer proofs, 72-P type 2, 76P/D type 1 if at least AU.
My bank (credit union actually) makes the members put their account #
on every roll. Pain in the butt but ? Positive side of that is they are now marked. At least for the short term. They all get opened and then dumped into bags eventually to be sent back out. I do more dimes
than anything. Pick up half's if they have them. Then cents mostly during the winter or if I have time or are bored :) Quarters I do the worst at. Many are from Co's and come from machines etc. then rolled
so not much silver. Keep an eye out for older plain type wrappers on any denomination. After a while you can spot these quickly. Customer
wrapped rolls or teller coin tray half's I do the best at.

Thanks for the replies. I think I will go back to my decade system or even a yearly system like pennysaver. I am searching for varieties also so I think this will work best. Something tells me the small cents will be the most time consuming, other denominations don't seem to have as many varieties.

I think everyone has there own little style. I know mine has changed over the past couple years. I've discovered faster ways to look for certain coins I'm hunting but I'm in a pretty good routine now I think.

The coin I hunt through the most is the Australian 5c coin. Other than errors the only one worth keeping is 1972. I sort all the coins very quickly, tossing all those with the correct QEII bust into one pile. I then only sort this pile carefully.

This presents the same dilema as you; I miss a lot of errors and varieties in the later dates. I try not to worry about it so much and I'm happy with finding what I'm after.