Posted 10/02/2019 4:37 pm
LOL.....indeed.....I cannot imagine such a machine costing less than a few thousand dollars, BUT.....if it worked accurately, think of the time I could save.
1) I would have a Ryesdale to separate by weight. (But I am guessing that coins too light below 2.50g, to high above 3.1g, and in no-man's land centered between 2.50-3.1g will fall (somewhere), but not in a third pile. Never used one, so I really don't know.)
2) For the zinc years with no Fivaz-Stanton exceptions, I could immediately roll them & get them out of my sight.
3) For 1959-1981, for those years where I have what I need and there are no Fivaz exceptions, I could roll them immediately & put them into my copper stash.
4) For all of the others, they would be sorted by year/mint mark. If a rare copper (or supposedly unique aluminum) coin came up in the wrong pile, I would know it after this separation, because I would have already separated them out by weight with the Ryesdale. And when looking through the rest for double dies, repunches, etc, I would already have all of one year/mint mark separated so that I could fixate on just those exceptions for a period of time.
For me, it would save 50-75% or more of the time I spend with boxes of pennies now. I figure that given that it has to orient itself coin by coin to identify them, it might take 8 hours to go through $25 of coins. But as long as the machine stopped (and after a time powered down) if something jammed, I could let it run overnight and at least do box a day.....and still have a life doing pone of my many other hobbies.
Oh.....and since there apparently is no such machine available yet, I would suspect it would be many revisions and advances (and years) away from being able to identifier mint errors and the like.
1) I would have a Ryesdale to separate by weight. (But I am guessing that coins too light below 2.50g, to high above 3.1g, and in no-man's land centered between 2.50-3.1g will fall (somewhere), but not in a third pile. Never used one, so I really don't know.)
2) For the zinc years with no Fivaz-Stanton exceptions, I could immediately roll them & get them out of my sight.
3) For 1959-1981, for those years where I have what I need and there are no Fivaz exceptions, I could roll them immediately & put them into my copper stash.
4) For all of the others, they would be sorted by year/mint mark. If a rare copper (or supposedly unique aluminum) coin came up in the wrong pile, I would know it after this separation, because I would have already separated them out by weight with the Ryesdale. And when looking through the rest for double dies, repunches, etc, I would already have all of one year/mint mark separated so that I could fixate on just those exceptions for a period of time.
For me, it would save 50-75% or more of the time I spend with boxes of pennies now. I figure that given that it has to orient itself coin by coin to identify them, it might take 8 hours to go through $25 of coins. But as long as the machine stopped (and after a time powered down) if something jammed, I could let it run overnight and at least do box a day.....and still have a life doing pone of my many other hobbies.
Oh.....and since there apparently is no such machine available yet, I would suspect it would be many revisions and advances (and years) away from being able to identifier mint errors and the like.
