Coins play a notorious role in most people's minds: small, annoying, yet still worth enough to warrant counting. Of course, financial institutions have no choice but to accept and count them. This can be lucrative, but it is terribly time consuming.

Sophisticated heavy-duty machines can easily perform these tasks. Human tellers and other agents at credit unions and banks are responsible for oversight and other accounting practices, but their real value lies in their ability to interact with customers and make important decisions. As a result, using them as organic counting machines is a waste of resources that could be better allocated.

Certainly, most businesses in the money-handling industry will use machines of some kind. However, smaller machines take more time to sort less money and can easily break down. Heavy-duty coin sorters can handle a large amount of coinage, as well as print out detailed receipts and sort by currency. Additionally, these devices have a number of memory functions that allow for reports based upon hours, separate tellers and different bank divisions.