If you have a search that you do all the time set all the realevant filters, date ranges and exclude all categories that you don't care about, then save that search as a bookmark. I have done this for two of my main searches; Japanese coins ans Japanese banknotes for over a decade and I only had to adapt once or twice in that time.
As an example for circulating French coins from your time frame: SEARCH
For more coming searches that you do all the time but that still exclude categories like exonumia or patterns etc. you can set a default search filter so you don't have to adjust ever time. I realy don't see the point to many of the complaints, it has changed nearly nothing in the sense of how you use the search function.