What is a Coin Counter

A coin counter is simply a machine that electronically counts coins. How do they work? Most coin counters (as opposed to a coin counter & sorter) use a rotating disc onto which coins are poured, this then spins the coins into a line around the edge of the disc and then a mvoing rubber belt drags the coins one at a time along a set of rails and through a sensor which registers each coin as it passes. Other types of coin counters use an electronic weighing system to calculate the number of coins placed onto the machine.

Why Use a Coin Counter?

Coin counters are used in all areas of business, such as banking, retail, schools, colleges, libraries, local authority, hospitals, vending, and car parking, and so on. Why are they so popular? Coin counters are useful and beneficial to companies because it saves time counting their coins manually which is labour intensive and prone to error.

High Speed Coin Counters such as the COU1001 can count up to 2000 coins per minute or over 30 coins per second. Compared with the time taken to manually count coins the savings are obvious.

Another benefit of coin counters is accuracy. Manual,laborious tasks such as counting coins is very prone to human error and using an efficient coin counting machine removes this problem and gives staff more time to concentrate on other tasks, increasing productivity.