General Searching Technique

So you've just received a 5-gallon bucket of coins from your uncle that spanned 10+ years of dumping the day's pocket change into a glass carboy. How do you attack sorting and looking for gems, errors, oddities, and the like? I guess there are a number of different ways to tackle, but are there any methods more efficient than others for searching large piles of coins?

I guess I would start by dividing it up by denomination. Then by examining dates and separating silver from non-silver. And copper from clad for pennies. State Quarters, ATB, etc.

Regardless, I would want to examine each coin to see if it's an error, key date, reference coin, proof, etc, so I don't know that it's worth sorting in the first place if you have to examine each coin closely anyway. Maybe just to break it into manageable groups of the same kind of coin so you're looking for the same general things instead of forcing your brain to shift gears for every coin you pick up.

Kind of a vague question, but was curious how y'all deal with that. I suppose to some extent it's individual preference.