The Coin Jar Sort Kit

Pull the keepers first, sort a jar of US coins by the dates that changed their metal, weigh each lot, count the silver in troy ounces, read any offer per ounce, and put every keeper in a holder that fits

NumisNook's free tools each answer one question about one coin: its published diameter, weight and alloy, the grams of each metal in it, the holder that fits it, and how to store it. None of them starts where most people start: a jar, a tin or an inherited collection of mixed US coins, most of them worn, some of them silver, and one or two worth far more than their metal. Silver is priced per troy ounce, a kitchen scale reads a different ounce, and a jar holds six silver-bearing types at three finenesses. While writing this kit we checked our own tools and fixed three things: the Holder Size Finder rounded to the nearest size (a 19.05 mm cent got a 19 mm holder; it now rounds up), the Specification Reference's eras took in the 1943 steel cent and missed the wartime silver nickels, and the Metal Weight Calculator could report more metal than a coin weighs. The Coin Jar Sort Kit puts them in order. Handle by the edges and never clean; sort by the dates that changed each coin's metal; pull every coin that may be worth more than its metal before anything touches a scale; weigh each lot rather than count it; turn grams into troy ounces; and read any offer as dollars per ounce and as a share of melt. In the worked example (an example, not a promise), the 90% silver lots weigh 141.94 g and hold 4.1071 troy ounces, a little under the 4.1596 the face-value shortcut claims, and a kitchen-scale reading would have overstated them by 9.71%. Then every keeper goes in a holder rounded up, never down (the nearest size would have pinched 7 of the 12 example keepers), in a box with its silica gel worked out. It is metal-content arithmetic. Melt is the metal only, never a coin's collector value and never an appraisal, and nothing in the kit is investment advice. It never suggests melting a coin, and it says plainly that US law (31 CFR Part 82) prohibits melting, treating or exporting 1-cent and 5-cent coins, with limited exceptions. Specs are the US Mint's published figures, and worked figures are tagged as examples. Included: 23 printable pages with 7 steps, a sort sheet, a keeper log, an offer sheet, a fine-silver reference and a quickstart, plus a personalised sheet worked out from the numbers you entered in our calculators.

What’s inside

The full contents of The Coin Jar Sort Kit: keepers first, weigh it honestly, and the working pages

Step 1, The Edges-Only Rule: handle every coin by its edge and never clean one, then a first count of the example jar by denomination and face value

The Edges-Only Rule: handle by the edges, never clean, and a first count of the jar by denomination and face value
The Date-Line Rule: the dates that changed each coin's metal, with the silver in one coin of each bin
The Keepers-First Rule: every coin that may be worth more than its metal leaves the pile before any scale, and why survivors, not mintage, decide
The Weigh-the-Lot Rule: each silver lot weighed on a 0.01 g scale and multiplied by its fineness, against the count
The Troy Ounce Rule: grams into troy ounces, the face-value shortcut and the kitchen-ounce trap
The Per-Ounce Rule: any offer read as dollars per troy ounce and as a share of melt, and the law on cents and nickels
The Round-Up Rule: every keeper's holder rounded up to the next standard size, a shopping list by size, and the box's silica gel
The sort sheet and the keeper log, printable
The offer sheet, printable
A fine-silver reference for every US coin type in the table, and a one-page quickstart

Plus a second PDF, worked out for you

Run one of the free calculators first and buy from that page, and this sheet is computed from your own figures. Buy from here and the pack still arrives complete — the sheet simply has no numbers of yours to work from yet.

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