Manual Coin Sorters Compared to Automatic Coin Sorters

Coin sorters are devices that sort money into piles of their own kind so they can then be counted and bagged. Depending on your needs you may either require a manual or an automatic. Which coin sorter you choose usually depends on how fast you need to do the job and the volume of coins you need to sort.

Manual coin sorters can plough through a load of mixed coins and make neat piles of 1ps, 2ps, and 5ps and so on. It is usually a set of trays that have different sized holes in them. The idea is that you pour the bag of coins into the set of trays and the coins fall through and land in their appropriate trays. This makes it easier to count because you have a pile of the same coins. The machine isn’t automatic and so it takes a little longer and needs more human interaction because its manual but up to 300 coins can be sorted within 10 seconds which is quite impressive. This is a lot faster than sorting the coins yourself and so will save you stacks of time. If you work within a business that deals with a lot coins such as a car parking machine, or a charity for example, then a coin sorter is a must have device.

Automatic coin sorters have the same principle as manual coin sorters except they are automatic. The bag of coins is poured into the coin sorter and the machine separates them into different compartments of the different denominations. Automatic machines have been around for quite some time, they used to sort out the coin by the size of the coin, nowadays it’s usually by the weight and a flicking movement. Automatic coin sorters are faster than manual coin sorters and they have the added bonus of coming with a coin sorter as well. What does this mean? It means once the machine has sorted the coins it can then easily count the coins at the same time, this doubly saves you time. Automatic coin sorters are a little more expensive than manual coin sorter but they come with many more perks, they are a lot more accurate and efficient, and they are very easy to use, its simply a case of pressing a button and the machines does the rest of the work for you.

Depending on your requirements will depend on whether you will require a manual or an automatic coin sorter. Have a look around and see what type of machine is best for you.