At work we run a small charity store, where we stock things like candy bars and pop for people to purchase. We buy them in bulk and sell them at a reasonable price, and it’s pretty popular. Proceeds go to local families in need and local charities like food banks, senior centers, etc.
Needless to say, we get somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 - 150 dollars worth of coins in a day. Too much to count by hand by people who have regular jobs and use their spare time for volunteering with the store.
In the past, we’ve used light duty coin sorters like this.
It sorts most regular sized coins, including dollar coins, but it is not meant for large volume sorting and jams pretty frequently, and eventually it breaks.
The problem with the RS unit was that if it got a non-standard coin, like a Sacajewa or Susan B Anthony or a 50 cent coin, it will jam up and it requires the use of tools to disassemble and clear. At least the other one, while jamming more frequently, was easier to clear because it didn’t require tools to open up.
So I am looking for something more robust. Our bank does not allow us to sort coins for free, and the banks that do are not conveniently located, so that’s out, and we’d prefer not to lose 9 cents on the dollar by using a Coinstar, either. does anyone have links to a robust, reliable coin sorter that doesn’t jam up with odd coins, or is easy to clear out if it does?
While this is an old thread, nobody but me posted to it, so I hope it’s not considered a zombie. I wanted to post to let folks know we finally found a good coin sorter. It’s a Cassida C100, and we got it for around 200 bucks.
It has not jammed once in 3 weeks (compared to daily jams of our others, including a “professinal” model made by another company), and the coin count is dead-on accurate.
Damn this got me to laughing. Can’t know unless you count.
I once worked for a strange old man, We used to weigh the coins. No joke. We had plastic bins of a known weight, add the type of coin, from there you can determine the number of coins. Even weighed a shoebox of bills once or twice.
strange days.
Glad you found a machine that works for you. My bank has a machine I can use for 3 pennies on the dollar.
Well, I guess because I verified it. With the older coin counters, it was plainly obvious that they were wrong, because it would tell you you had, say, $40 in quarters, but it rolled 3 rolls plus 12 quarters, so no way that was right.
This one will give you a very accurate count, as I have verified by counting the change afterward. Also, we’ve een making deposits at the bank, and if they were off, we’d be getting bank notifications like crazy.
As for using a bank machine, we still need a way to tell what our daily income is, and running to the bank every day is right out. This gives us an accurate picture of how much money we bring in on a given day.