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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Poll Question
It's the least fun part of CRH for us who do large quantities, but for those of us who live in areas without coin machines (or who don't want to pay 11% for Coinstar to do the work), it is a necessity.
So I am curious to know how many rolls of coins you can manually roll in an hour?
If I am wide awake and am using my scale (after pulling the coppers), I can do 45-50 rolls of cents or nickels in an hour. What about the rest of you?
CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I am in that same area, I find it is just easy to toss the rejects back into the roll right after I go through them. Then replace anything I keep and move onto the next roll.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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I am in that same area, I find it is just easy to toss the rejects back into the roll right after I go through them. Then replace anything I keep and move onto the next roll. I usually do that with nickels... with the cents it just depends on if I've run into a good source with lots of wheats, and my need for sleep as I usually do them last. LOL. CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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Valued Member
United States
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I do not live in an area with coin counters either, except for coin star. I have searched high and low for a bank or credit union that has one and I cannot find one. When I search pennies/cents I usually dump them into coinstar to load up my Amazon account or get a gift card for Lowes or Home Depot. Once in a while when I get ahead on coin I will ask family members or a few close friends if they need a a gift card to load up their Amazon or if they are gonna make any home improvement purchases and I "sell" them the paper gift card. This past summer I painted my very large barn and bought the paint with all Lowes coinstar gift cards. So that was a huge help to rid of ALOT of coin without overloading the tellers. I never put dimes in coinstar for fear of being shorted. As far as nickels go only one time I have been shorted one nickel out of probably 3K or so I have dumped in nickels at coinstar for gift cards. Most of the time I search I have a plastic tubes for each nickels/dimes and quarters(which I rarely search) and after I look at the coin I fill the tube and then I can slide it right back into the wrapper that it came in. When I don't have any pending purchases the rolls go back to the bank. It works well. I usually can get though a box of nickels in about 1.5 to 2 hours. This is also watching TV. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm with Ace on the nickels; not counting them lets me roll them back up in seconds. With cents, I just coinstar them... I can always use $20 on coin supplies or miscellany on Amazon! If I have to roll them back up manually, I have found that the mental effort falls off dramatically if you take it in "chunks". For example with nickels, I can count 5 coins visually without actually counting them. I hold them in a stack, ignore the ones my fingers are touching, and make sure I see three in the middle. "Stacks" of 5 coins go in little "groups" of 4 stacks; I make row after row of "groups" and then pop them into rolls. I think I have done well over 60 in an hour this way. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If I have to roll them back up manually, I have found that the mental effort falls off dramatically if you take it in "chunks". For example with nickels, I can count 5 coins visually without actually counting them. I hold them in a stack, ignore the ones my fingers are touching, and make sure I see three in the middle. "Stacks" of 5 coins go in little "groups" of 4 stacks; I make row after row of "groups" and then pop them into rolls. I think I have done well over 60 in an hour this way. Wow. Fascinating. I think we need to have a thread on methods of re-rolling. I count out 40 nickels flat on a table, slide half off of the table with one gloved hand into the other, shake and adjust until they are in a column, and then slide the twenty at a slight angle into the paper roll that is already hanging on my "pinkie" finger. Then I put down the half-filled roll, and do the same technique to get the other half filled with the remaining 20. Takes about 25-30 seconds to fill the roll (not counting the time it takes to count out the 40 nickels). Maybe we should upload videos on how we fill rolls. I assume there is quite a diversity of methods. When I get rolls that are all head-side-up, I figure that there are various methods! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Wow. Fascinating. I think we need to have a thread on methods of re-rolling. I count out 40 nickels flat on a table, slide half off of the table with one gloved hand into the other, shake and adjust until they are in a column, and then slide the twenty at a slight angle into the paper roll that is already hanging on my "pinkie" finger. Then I put down the half-filled roll, and do the same technique to get the other half filled with the remaining 20. Takes about 25-30 seconds to fill the roll (not counting the time it takes to count out the 40 nickels). Maybe we should upload videos on how we fill rolls. I assume there is quite a diversity of methods. When I get rolls that are all head-side-up, I figure that there are various methods! Yeah, those a good ideas. I had discussing methods in mind when I started this poll/thread. I'm experimenting even now. I rolled $10 worth of Zincolns in 29 minutes just now, but that included a break to get a glass of orange juice. CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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I guessed at what I though I could do... my banks in my town still have coincounters and so rolls are not "allowed". Very interesting as to the methods used. I can only say I am glad I do not have to reroll that would be a mind numbing experience I am sure.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4932 Posts |
I used to be able to search thoroughly enough and do boxes, one an hour.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I used to be able to search thoroughly enough and do boxes, one an hour. I can do a box of nickels in an hour too and get them all rolled back up, as long as I'm not distracted. CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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Valued Member
Canada
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I can average about 40 rolls an hour, and I like to stack my coins in stacks of 5 before filling my rolls to make sure I would not add an extra coin or leave a coin out. This method worked for me and it is very efficient. (That is, until young family members come and mess up my work)
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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"...my banks in my town still have coincounters and so rolls are not "allowed"." My wife worked at one of my local banks and told me that if you brought in rolls, they would ask you to bring them back unrolled. That definitely works for me! So, I guess I don't have a number for rolls per hour. In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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Posted 12/15/2016 11:36 am
