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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;10gary22, post: 919508, member: 23626&quot;]I set up 8 paper cups on my desk. I toss all the 2000-2009 in one, the 90-99 in another, etc the 1909 -40 go in one cup and anything that looks like it needs to be rechecked goes in another. I go anywhere from 10-20 rolls at a time.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My next step is a muffin tin like the kind used to bake 12 muffins at a time. Of course I take a cupful of cents from a decade and sort them by year. The extra 2 cups are for unique and uncirculated or red ones. Now I grab my Fivaz-Stanton list and go through each year. All 1981 and later cents go into a tupperware dish for re-rolling. The other years get separated and rolled by year &amp; mint. Full rolls are placed in a box. I made dividers for a gift box that make-up comes in and partial rolls are standing in it. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I do the nickles the same way, but I only keep 1960 and earlier. I guess that&#039;s because I ended my album in 1970. Since it is filled, I only look for varieties and errors. However, if I see a really nice coin, I always check it against the ones in the book. I upgrade if I find something nicer.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Dimes &amp; quarters are ditto, but the cutoff is 1964 when the silver ended. But I cannot find silver at all, so that&#039;s just the stuff I already have. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It&#039;s really quick to go through a huge lot of coins this way because you don&#039;t waste too much time on the wrong stuff. One look can spot most errors that are noteworthy, and you have the dates you can check against known varieties by putting several identical coins in the tray all at once. I use a large tupperware lid for a sorting tray. So anything that seems different really pops out at you.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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