October 2015 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

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Hello Fellow Copper Penny Handsorters:

In October 2015, 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 2015 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 2015 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 October 27, 2015 8:53 pm forum time and earlier.

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COPPER PENNIES (NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS)
October 2015 FULL LIST (as of 11/1/15 18:41 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 4316
Country - 1997
plus1hdcp - 91



INDIAN HEAD PENNIES
October 2015 FULL LIST (as of 11/1/15 18:41 ET)



NONE FOUND



WHEAT PENNIES
October 2015 FULL LIST (as of 11/1/15 18:41 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 106
Country - 40
plus1hdcp - 1



CANADIAN COPPER PENNIES
October 2015 FULL LIST (as of 11/1/15 18:41 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 15
Country - 6



1982 COPPER PENNIES
October 2015 FULL LIST (as of 11/1/15 18:41 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 226
Country - 174
plus1hdcp - 10



PERCENTAGE OF COPPERS NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS
October 2015 FULL LIST (as of 11/1/15 18:41 ET)



Country - 19.97%
plus1hdcp - 18.20%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 15.69%



PERCENTAGE OF CANADIAN COPPERS
October 2015 FULL LIST (as of 11/1/15 18:41 ET)



Country - 0.06%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 0.05%
plus1hdcp - 0.00%



COPPER SEARCHER SCORE
SCORE = (COINS-SEARCHED) * (COPPERs) / 250000
October 2015 FULL LIST (as of 11/1/15 18:41 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 488.07
Country - 81.72
plus1hdcp - 0.18


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2015 FULL YEAR STATISTICS

COPPER PENNIES (NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS)
2015 FULL LIST (as of 11/1/15 18:41 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 39562
Country - 13518
cwgii - 13154
Hirbonzig - 5836
Sullysullinburg - 5037
J_Dodge - 3407
PennysaverCP - 2970
mrlaufer - 2633
Whinstone - 2296
plus1hdcp - 750



INDIAN HEAD PENNIES
2015 FULL LIST (as of 11/1/15 18:41 ET)



PennysaverCP - 1
cwgii - 1



WHEAT PENNIES
2015 FULL LIST (as of 11/1/15 18:41 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 1181
Country - 382
cwgii - 321
Sullysullinburg - 103
Hirbonzig - 100
PennysaverCP - 56
J_Dodge - 45
Whinstone - 44
mrlaufer - 43
plus1hdcp - 6



CANADIAN COPPER PENNIES
2015 FULL LIST (as of 11/1/15 18:41 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 157
PennysaverCP - 131
Country - 76
Hirbonzig - 76
cwgii - 75
J_Dodge - 62
mrlaufer - 33
Sullysullinburg - 30
Whinstone - 15
plus1hdcp - 5



1982 COPPER PENNIES
2015 FULL LIST (as of 11/1/15 18:41 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 2056
Country - 1149
cwgii - 1010
Sullysullinburg - 421
J_Dodge - 296
Whinstone - 289
plus1hdcp - 85



PERCENTAGE OF COPPERS NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS
2015 FULL LIST (as of 11/1/15 18:41 ET)



PennysaverCP - 25.38%
Sullysullinburg - 25.19%
Hirbonzig - 24.32%
J_Dodge - 22.71%
Country - 21.63%
Whinstone - 20.87%
plus1hdcp - 20.83%
mrlaufer - 17.55%
cwgii - 16.44%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 16.31%



PERCENTAGE OF CANADIAN COPPERS
2015 FULL LIST (as of 11/1/15 18:41 ET)



PennysaverCP - 1.12%
J_Dodge - 0.41%
Hirbonzig - 0.32%
mrlaufer - 0.22%
Sullysullinburg - 0.15%
plus1hdcp - 0.14%
Whinstone - 0.14%
Country - 0.12%
cwgii - 0.09%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 0.06%



COPPER SEARCHER SCORE
SCORE = (COINS-SEARCHED) * (COPPERs) / 250000
2015 FULL LIST (as of 11/1/15 18:41 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 39681.18
cwgii - 4336.00
Country - 3494.00
Hirbonzig - 577.15
Sullysullinburg - 413.60
J_Dodge - 210.84
mrlaufer - 162.54
PennysaverCP - 147.75
Whinstone - 103.62
plus1hdcp - 10.96



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2015 FOREIGN LEGION SECTION

1 Austria 2c Euro - '04 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
6 Bahamas 1c - '84 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '87 (found by Whinstone), '90 (found by cwgii), (2) '04 (1 found by TwoAndAHalfCents, 1 found by Sullysullinburg), '06 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Cayman Islands - '82 (found by cwgii)
1 Croatia 10 lipa - '01 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Domincan Republic 1c - '78 (found by Sullysullinburg)
2 Euro 2c - '00 (found by Sullysullinburg), unspecified date (found by J_Dodge)
1 France 2c Euro - '01 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Germany 1 pfennig - '91 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
2 Germany 2c Euro - '02 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '12 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
3 Great Britain New Penny - '75 (found by cwgii), '94 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '04 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Ireland 2c Euro - '06 (found by cwgii)
1 Malta 1c - '01 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
2 Mexico 5c - '71 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '76 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 New Zealand 6 pence - '43 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Norway 50 ore - unspecified date (found by Sullysullinburg)
10 Panama 1c - '83 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '86 (found by cwgii), '87 (found by Country), (2) '96 (2 found by TwoAndAHalfCents), (4) '01 (3 found by TwoAndAHalfCents, 1 found by Sullysullinburg), '08 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
2 South Korea 10 won - '11 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '12 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Spain 5c Euro - '03 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Switzerland 10 rappen - '65 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)

NUMBER OF COINS FOUND BY COUNTRY

Austria - 1
Bahamas - 6
Cayman Islands - 1
Croatia - 1
Domincan Republic - 1
Euro - 2
France - 1
Germany - 3
Great Britain - 3
Ireland - 1
Malta - 1
Mexico -2
New Zealand - 1
Norway - 1
Panama - 10
South Korea - 2
Spain - 1
Switzerland - 1

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$25 - Brink's Box
489 Copper non-wheats (19.6%)
- 357 Nice coppers
- 82 Ugly Abes
- 50 1982's (ACE checked)
9 Wheats - 1936 and 8 others
2 Canadian copper - '76, '87

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$25 - Brink's Box
523 Copper non-wheats (20.9%)
- 377 Nice coppers
- 105 Ugly Abes
- 41 1982's (ACE checked)
16 Wheats - 1925, 1937 and 14 others
3 Canadian copper - '54, '81(2)

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$25 - Brink's Box
515 Copper non-wheats (20.6%)
- 398 Nice coppers
- 74 Ugly Abes
- 43 1982's (ACE checked)
8 Wheats - Oldest 1941
0 Canadian copper

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$50 CWRs

Wheats:
1 - older (1919)
12 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (17.08%):
807 - Memorial 1959-1981
47 - Memorial 1982

2 - Canada (1965, 1983)
1 - South Korea 10 won (2011)
5 - U.S. clad dimes

[plus1hdcp]

$5.00 CWR

81 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper Canadian copper cents
+1 Wheats ()
+10 Copper 1982
+0 Copper Canadian ()

92 Keepers 18.40%

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$25 Brinks box

Wheats:
11 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (15.48%):
360 - Memorial 1959-1981
27 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (2002)

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$25 Brinks box

Wheats:
2 - older (1928, 1935)
12 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (16.04%):
378 - Memorial 1959-1981
23 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (2001)

[Country]

$25 - Brink's Box
470 Copper non-wheats (18.8%)
- 363 Nice coppers
- 67 Ugly Abes
- 40 1982's (ACE checked)
7 Wheats - 1937 and 6 others
1 Canadian copper - '83

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$50 CWRs

Wheats:
1 - older (1912)
19 - 1940s/1950s
1 - date unreadable

Copper non-wheat (14.16%):
674 - Memorial 1959-1981
34 - Memorial 1982

4 - Canada (1983, 1986, 1989, 1996)
5 - U.S. clad dimes

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$25 Brinks box

Wheats:
1 - older (1920-D)
12 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (17.04%):
414 - Memorial 1959-1981
12 - Memorial 1982

2 - Canada (1996, 2000)

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$25 Brinks box

Wheats:
10 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (15.00%):
353 - Memorial 1959-1981
22 - Memorial 1982

3 - Canada (1964, 1980, 1981)

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$50 CWRs

Wheats:
1 - older (1919)
17 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (15.94%):
760 - Memorial 1959-1981
37 - Memorial 1982

3 - Canada (1971, 2002, 2006)
1 - Panama 1 centesimo (1983)
1 - South Korea 10 won (2012)
2 - U.S. clad dimes

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$25 BWRs

Wheats:
6 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (14.72%):
344 - Memorial 1959-1981
24 - Memorial 1982

4 - Canada (1968, 1973, 1974, 1979)

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The final Copper Penny Handsorter stats for October 2015 have been posted. Look to the first post of this thread to get the details. Always look to the line just before the Kitco quotes to see the last post that was included in the latest update.

Please post your November 2015 finds in the new thread: November 2015 Copper Handsorter Tracking.


THIS THREAD IS NOW CLOSED.