Unbiased Reviews of Coin Counters!

A coin counter is an indispensable equipment for counting and sorting of coins in the world today. To speedily count and organize coins into bundles of pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, halves and dollar, coins counters are necessarily. Banks and companies large and small use coin counters to effectively sort and dispense coins in neat order.

There are many types of coin counters in the market. Modest and cheap coin counters are available for personal use. More sophisticated and high end models are used for bigger sorting tasks where quantity, speed and accuracy are called for. These are chiefly used by large companies and businesses.

Coin counters are a daily equipment in any cash register, office and especially at any bank teller. Many companies seek coin counters that are durable, fast, accurate and most importantly, jam-free. There are several types of coin counters depending on use and budget. The most sophisticated of models are usually semi or fully digital and can cost up to $200 while cheaper models, which are semi-digital or manual operated can go for as low as $30.

Most coin counters require preformed wrappers for holding individual groups of coins. These can be purchased online or at a home depot. When considering your purchase of a coin counter it is important to buy from a local merchant or a manufacturer because foreign coins are usually rejected by coin counters or simply slotted to the nearest US coin size. This can effect the accuracy of your coin counting.

Most basic of coin counters in the market are made by PM Company. They have a SecurIT Counter Change Tray which is primarily a counting tray with compartments to sort the whole range of coins. Each compartment or picket can contain 5 coins, with numbers indicated on the tray. This counter is mainly for small cash register operators who need convenient access to the coins on the job and does not require wrapping of coins.

Another manual type coin counter is PM Company’s Color-Coded Coin Counting Tube which counts pennies to quarters. It is a funnel like tube which requires manual funneling of coins. At the end of the stout, is a tube which houses a preformed wrappers which the coins are funneled into. The is perfect for home use.

Royal Sovereign is a large manufacturer of coin counters. Their most basic manual coin counter is called the Sort ‘N Save Manual Coin Sorter. Sort N’ Save is transparent in color, needs no batteries nor power and is great for home use. This machine has the benefits of being easy to work with and jam-free compared to battery operated ones.

It is also portable and features a crank lever for internal sorting. Royal Sovereign’s mid range coin counter is Fast Sort Coin Sorter, Black (CO-1000). It sorts 240 coins per min, is fully automated with a two roll capacity and anti-jam system which automatically frees coins that are jammed. It works fast and well for a mid-range coin counter and has a quiet motor.

Royal Sovereign Fast Sort Automatic Digital Coin Sorter is slightly pricier than the former but sorts more coins per minute (313/min), has a larger hooper capacity of 400 coins and features a digital LCD display. The LCD display is useful for indication of coins counted. It also features an anti-jam system which is crucial for large coin sorting tasks where jam-time is eliminated. This machine can easily churn out 150 rolls in 2 hours.

Another coin sorting company is Cassida C100 Commercial Coin Sorter which counts 250 coins per minute and a huge hoop capacity of 1600 coins and coin tray capacity of 900 coins. It also has a digital LCD display that shows the tallies by denomination and an internal error and batch audio and visual alert alarm. The latter is helpful in telling you were the machine has made a mistake or if a jam has occurred. C100 fills coins rolls well but not several coin rolls in a roll.

There are plenty of coin counters in the market for selection. Be sure to get one that specifically fits your needs as well as your country’s currency.