July 2014 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

[Country]

Hello Fellow Copper Penny Handsorters:

In July 2014, please post your finds right here.

For those of us who handsort our COPPER, this is the place to report your COPPER treasure. I'll be working up some statistics as the reports flow.

Please report the face value of the pennies searched and the total number of US COPPERs found. Also, list the total number of Wheats, COPPER Canadians, and any wonderful Indian Heads you find. If you find foreign coins in your search for COPPERs, list them too. List the percentage of COPPERs found: the percentage I use is the number of coppers (non-Wheats, non-Canadians) found in the face value of pennies searched. Personally, I breakdown my US COPPERs into 4 categories: Wheats, Clean COPPERS (1959-1981), Ugly Abes (1959-1981), and 1982s (the Ugly 1982s I send them back into the wild); I roll mine up separately and put them into separate $25 boxes for storage.

I'll try to post some graphs of our COPPER finds as 2014 proceeds along by adding data to this initial post. I'll see if I can post some interesting insights into the data here in this initial post for 2014 too. Even though this is a national tabulation of all our finds, I think its fun to know what finds are being made and at what frequentcy.

It might be interesting to see how many Indian Heads, Wheats, and COPPER pennies are found . I'll try to keep track of all of these.

Now, go out and find the COPPER treasure!!

Those of you who are copper handsorters and are considering becoming RealCent members - Why not join today and stake your COPPER claims right here? Compete with other members in the race to see who is the best COPPER handsorter.

Statistical data includes all posts July 01, 2014 mid-night forum time and later.

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[plus1hdcp]

$5.00 CWR

141 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper Canadian copper cents
+0 Wheats ()
+35 Copper 1982
+0 Copper Canadian ()

176 Keepers 35.20%

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$50 CWRs and BWRs

Wheats:
4 - older (1929-S, 1934, 1936, 1937-D)
22 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (17.50%):
822 - Memorial 1959-1981
53 - Memorial 1982

7 - Canada (1972, 1977, 1982, 1986, 1991, 1997, 2007)

4 - U.S. clad dimes

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$25 Box

Wheats:
1 - older (1929-S)
5 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (16.48%):
393 - Memorial 1959-1981
19 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (2004)

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$25 CWRs

Wheats:
5 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (16.20%):
387 - Memorial 1959-1981
18 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (1952)

[plus1hdcp]

$5.00 MWR

90 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper Canadian copper cents
+2 Wheats (42D, 44)
+12 Copper 1982
+1 Copper Canadian (1983)

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$87 BWRs and CWRs

Wheats:
37 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (18.82%):
1,547 - Memorial 1959-1981
90 - Memorial 1982

3 - Canada (1973, 1978, 1998)
1 - Great Britain 1 penny (1989)
1 - Hong Kong 10 cents (1998)
1 - Mexico 5 cents (1973)

2 - U.S. clad dimes

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$25 Brinks Box

Wheats:
1 - older (1929-S)
7 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (17.44%):
412 - Memorial 1959-1981
24 - Memorial 1982

4 - Canada (1971, 1977, 1980, 1981)

[J_Dodge]

6-29 - 7-9-14 Box 25, #10 YTD

# Copper 659

# Wheat 8

# Canadian 11

# Indian 0

% Copper 27.12%

# C82 49

# Z82 16

C82% 75.38%

Wheat 1945, 1935D, 1950D, 1951D, 1944, 1953D, 1946D, 1953D

Best Roll 23, Worst Roll 9 x 3

JD

[plus1hdcp]

$5.00 MWR

105 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper Canadian copper cents
+1 Wheats (45)
+14 Copper 1982
+1 Copper Canadian ()

121 Keepers 24.20%

[plus1hdcp]

$10.00 CWR

195 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper Canadian copper cents
+0 Wheats ()
+30 Copper 1982
+1 Copper Canadian (78)

226 Keepers 22.60%

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$60.50 BWRs and CWRs

Wheats:
20 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (19.32%):
1,089 - Memorial 1959-1981
80 - Memorial 1982

8 - Canada (1956, 1975, 1979, 1985, 1989 x2, 1991, 1999)

[Rosco]

Happy camper
Visited a bank in town that occasionally sells me $5.00 cents
they had one roll of cust wrap plus one old roll tan machine crimps stamped
50
lincoln
wheat
cents

Both ends wheat backs weigh's 156.03 g
then the other teller sells me a Box, over a 18 months since the last one
can't start until Monday

[mrlaufer]

Haven't had much to sort since the last three trips yielded solid boxes of shields...

BOX 21 OF 2014

PRE-82 CU - 488
82 CU - 61
WHEATIES - 23 ( 19, 39, 41, 44X2, 45X2, 45D, 46D, 50DX3, 53D, 54D, 55DX2, 56, 56D, 57, 57D, 58, 58DX2)
IHC - 1889 IN WORN SHAPE
68-74 "S" MINT - 2 (70, 74)

TOTAL KEEPER US COPPER - 23%

CANUCKS - 1 (79)
2009 LINCOLNS - 4

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$25 Box (1 of 2)

Wheats:
7 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (16.20%):
384 - Memorial 1959-1981
21 - Memorial 1982

2 - Canada (1965, 1991)

$25 Box (2 of 2)

Wheats:
7 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (15.00%):
360 - Memorial 1959-1981
15 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (2010)

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$45 CWRs and BWRs

Wheats:
1 - older (1939)
8 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (18.89%):
801 - Memorial 1959-1981
49 - Memorial 1982

6 - Canada (1975, 1980, 1987, 1989, 1993, 1998)

1 - Australia 1 cent (1971)

2 - U.S. clad dimes

[Rosco]

$25 box

490 coppers 19.6%
4 Wheat 1929d oldest
1 Canadian 1971


that full roll wheat was 1940 to 1958 with some green, into the Soda

[mrlaufer]

BOX 22 OF 2014

PRE-82 CU - 399
82 CU - 41
WHEATIES - 5(41, 50, 51D, 56D, 58)
'68-'74 "S" MINT - 1(70)
TOTAL % KEEPER US CU - 17.44%

CANUCKS - 5(69, 97, 02X2, 06)
2009 LINCOLNS - 6

[cwgii]

100.00 penny report
07-05--13--14

1959 == 17 with 3 being "P"
1960--6 == 222
1968-74 == 454
1975-81 d== 612
1975-81 p== 277
1982 == 245 with 59 being zinc
wheat == 16 with 1 being pre 40 == 38
canadian == 9 with 8 being pre 97
odds == dime x 1

[cwgii]

100.00 penny report
07-13-31--14

1959 == 16 with 2 being "P"
1960--6 == 170
1968-74 == 383
1975-81 d== 609
1975-81 p== 260
1982 == 154 with 36 being zinc
wheat == 27 with none being pre 40 ==
canadian == 12 with 9 being pre 97
odds == dime x 9, and one oddity of a cut out angel