Customer Reviews

Royal Sovereign Fast Sort Coin Sorter, Black (CO-1000)

5 star:		(24)
4 star:		(26)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(9)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

I rolled $710 in loose change with this in a couple of hours (most of the time was taken up in removing, closing and then replacing the coin rolls), and it worked perfectly. It's quiet when it's turned on; battery-operated ones seem quite noisy by comparison, although I suppose it's about the same once you load it with coins. It never jammed, and the cover can be taken off to remove coins that won't sort. A few Susan B. Anthony coins got mixed in because of their close size and color to a quarter, and they just clanked around inside until I removed the cover to get them out. A removeable cover is a plus, because you can clean the dirt that will accumulate from sorting a lot of coins. My old battery-operated sorter was ruined because of this; it gummed up, the coins would no longer slide freely through it, and there was no way to take it apart to clean. The only negative so far is the on-off switch, which is why I gave this 4 stars instead of 5. It's a little loose and sloppy when I slide it to the on or off postion instead of a crisp click, and since it's plastic I try to handle it gently so it won't break off. Other than that, if it survives all the use it will get, I think it's worth the price.

This sorter is great. I bought and tried the sorter that's sold in all the major retail stores and took it right back after it malfunctioned badly. The malfunctioning sorter threw pennies in every slot. My daughter then told me that she had had the same problem.

The Royal Sovereign sorter, so far, works like a charm.

So far I think its a good product. It makes things much easier for me. It's easy to use and its pretty fast. If you put too many coins in there it gets jammed up so only do a handful at a time.

This product performs great. It has never jammed and "clicks" along handling coin after coin. The clicking you hear is the anti-jamming device. It is actually a rather quiet device. You can use either pre-formed wrappers or no wrapper. There are a couple points of non-perfection. You must be near an outlet (not a very long cord). You must place the device on a level surface (or the coins may not fall into the tubes). You will occasionally have a dime drop in the penny slot (keep an eye out for this). Would highly recommend for home users who love to save that pocket change. Would not recommend for serious commercial use.

This product works as advertised. It works well, and is quite fast. The only gripes I have are:

1) You can accidentally insert foreign or other size coins (half-dollars, dollars, etc), and they end up staying in the sorting mechanism. You have to remove a few screws, and take them out. But this isn't a big deal.

2) You have to fill the cylinders all the way to the top or right above. If it is just below the top of the cylinder, then you are likely short one coin. You should count out the first few rolls, to get a feeling of the correct height. With the wearing of coins, I doubt that there is much that can be done about this, without the machine actually counting coins.

All in all, I'm very happy with this purchase.

I purchased this coin sorter in July of 2008 after much research. No one seemed to have a lot of good to say about sorters in general and even this one has some negative reports, but I took a chance and I couldn't be happier. It's even fun to use. You can just toss your coins in the large opening in the top, flip on the switch and Bing, Bam, Boom, your coins are sorted and put in to cylinders that hold your coin rolls. When you turn it on you hear a clicking sound...not to worry, that's the anti-jam mechanism. Yes once in a while a coin will flop over the top of the cylinder, but there's an overflow tray to catch it. Just throw it back in the hole to resort. Good quality and works great. Highly recommend it.

The coin sorter is fair in its performance. The preformed wrappers for coins are too long to use, the crimped end makes them come up short when they count coins. The plastic coin catchers are not deep enough to accurately count the coins when wrappers are not used, the penny and nickel plastic catcher comes up one coin short because they are not deep enough when just using them without wrappers, this requires you to add one coin each time. It is very time consuming to remove the plastic tube and insert the coins into flat sleeves that you get from the bank. Overall this coin sorter needs improvement.

I previously would go through one of those clear plastic coin sorters every year. Tried different brands and they still all broke. Decided to spend the money and get a more durable unit. I have been using for about 2 months now and it works great. Occasionally a coin will shoot past the wrapper or no go in flat but I had that problem with the cheaper models.

Works great, accurate. Wrapped about $100 worth of coins so far.
My four year old loves it, she puts in a hand full at a time and it works excellent. Dont pay $100 for those digital ones, get this one.
I just put in several adult hands full of change, worked great.

This coin sorter does what it's supposed to do with a minimum of fuss. A tap here, a coin on the floor there, it does a nice job even if you don't buy the presorted rollers. Still, a little larger to store than I thought it was.