August 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

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Hello Fellow Copper Penny Handsorters:

In August 2016, 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 2016 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 2016 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 August 1, 2016 mid-night forum time and later.

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[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$100 CWRs

Wheats:
2 - older (1921, 1937)
1 - steel (1943-S)
23 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (15.35%):
1,462 - Memorial 1959-1981
73 - Memorial 1982

3 - Canada (1973, 1982, 1983)
4 - U.S. clad dimes
1 - France 1 euro cent (1999)
1 - Hong Kong 20 cents (1975)
1 - Mexico 20 centavos (1995)
1 - Netherlands 2 euro cent (2003)
1 - Thailand 50 satang (2009)

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$50 CWRs

Wheats:
2 - older (1934, 1936)
10 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (10.98%):
514 - Memorial 1959-1981
35 - Memorial 1982

4 - Canada (1972, 1975, 1981, 1991)

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$25 box, seen worse as far as dirt, few more 59/60 and wheats than I usually get.
611 copper LMC
13 1982 zinc
63 1982 copper
10 1959
10 1960
14 2009
15 wheat oldest 1929, 1930, 1925D
7 Canadian copper
1 Canadian Steel
1 dime
.2864

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$50 CWRs

Wheats:
17 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (14.60%):
688 - Memorial 1959-1981
42 - Memorial 1982

4 - Canada (1967, 1971, 1989, 1999)
4 - U.S. clad dimes
1 - South Africa 10 cents (2012)

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$25 box

Wheats:
1 - date unreadable
8 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (11.64%):
271 - Memorial 1959-1981
20 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (1981)
1 - Panama un centesimo (1996)

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$50 BWRs

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

Copper non-wheat (8.94%):
426 - Memorial 1959-1981
21 - Memorial 1982

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$25 Box (1 ot 4)
Wheats:
2 - older (1919, 1939)
8 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (13.12%):
310 - Memorial 1959-1981
18 - Memorial 1982

$25 Box (2 of 4)
Wheats:
1 - older (1936)
19 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (12.40%):
288 - Memorial 1959-1981
22 - Memorial 1982

6 - Canada (1962, 1968, 1976, 1981, 1982, 1994)

$25 box (3 of 4)
All new 2016-D pennies

$25 box (4 of 4)
All new 2016-D pennies

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$50 BWRs

Wheats:
2 - older (1929, 1930)
10 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (16.34%):
780 - Memorial 1959-1981
37 - Memorial 1982

5 - Canada (1967, 1971, 1977, 1999, 2001)
1 - Switzerland 10 Rappen (1974)

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$50 CWRs

Wheats:
7 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (13.46%):
622 - Memorial 1959-1981
51 - Memorial 1982

7 - Canada (1964, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1987 x2, 1989)
1 - Mexico 1 centavo (1953)
2 - U.S. clad dimes

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$25 box

Wheats:
5 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (17.16%):
399 - Memorial 1959-1981
30 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (1969)

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$50 BWRs

Wheats:
10 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (9.44%):
444 - Memorial 1959-1981
28 - Memorial 1982

3 - Canada (1985, 2000, 2002)

One of the rolls was an unopened 2010 roll from the U.S. mint. Snagged another piece of someone else's collection.

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$50 CWRs

Wheats:
1 - older (1925)
12 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (13.12%):
613 - Memorial 1959-1981
43 - Memorial 1982

3 - Canada (1961, 1981, 1986)
1 - Great Britain 1 penny (2002)
1 - France 2 euro cent (2009)
1 - South Korea 10 won (2010)
1 - Taiwan 1 yuan (1981)
1 - U.S. nickel
5 - U.S. clad dimes