Hello Fellow Copper Penny Handsorters:
In October 2013, 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 2013 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 2013 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 31, 2013 4:34 pm forum time and earlier. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
COPPER PENNIES (NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS)
October 2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 21:51 ET)
Bigsarge - 14531
TwoAndAHalfCents - 8982
cwgii - 7012
plus1hdcp - 6681
Sullysullinburg - 2039
everything - 716
rosco - 647
Whinstone - 480
sparechange - 354
INDIAN HEAD PENNIES
October 2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 21:51 ET)
Bigsarge - 4
WHEAT PENNIES
October 2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 21:51 ET)
Whinstone - 405
Bigsarge - 191
TwoAndAHalfCents - 184
cwgii - 144
plus1hdcp - 109
Sullysullinburg - 49
everything - 13
sparechange - 8
rosco - 4
CANADIAN COPPER PENNIES
October 2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 21:51 ET)
Bigsarge - 108
TwoAndAHalfCents - 43
cwgii - 34
plus1hdcp - 34
everything - 6
Sullysullinburg - 5
Whinstone - 4
rosco - 4
sparechange - 1
1982 COPPER PENNIES
October 2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 21:51 ET)
plus1hdcp - 790
cwgii - 538
TwoAndAHalfCents - 478
Whinstone - 70
sparechange - 22
Sullysullinburg - 10
PERCENTAGE OF COPPERS NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS
October 2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 21:51 ET)
Sullysullinburg - 30.21%
everything - 28.64%
Bigsarge - 26.42%
plus1hdcp - 23.04%
rosco - 21.57%
Whinstone - 19.20%
sparechange - 17.70%
cwgii - 17.53%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 16.95%
PERCENTAGE OF CANADIAN COPPERS
October 2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 21:51 ET)
everything - 0.24%
Bigsarge - 0.20%
Whinstone - 0.16%
rosco - 0.13%
plus1hdcp - 0.12%
cwgii - 0.09%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 0.08%
Sullysullinburg - 0.07%
sparechange - 0.05%
COPPER SEARCHER SCORE
SCORE = (COINS-SEARCHED) * (COPPERs) / 250000
October 2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 21:51 ET)
Bigsarge - 3262.60
TwoAndAHalfCents - 1952.31
cwgii - 1150.40
plus1hdcp - 791.58
Sullysullinburg - 56.51
Whinstone - 8.89
rosco - 7.86
everything - 7.35
sparechange - 2.90
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2013 FULL YEAR STATISTICS COPPER PENNIES (NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS)
2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 21:51 ET)
Bigsarge - 90320
cwgii - 89890
spacemanX - 67493
TwoAndAHalfCents - 41305
Romalae - 18453
plus1hdcp - 13340
Country - 13317
everything - 10820
rexmerdinus - 8571
Sullysullinburg - 7867
sparechange - 5552
Whinstone - 2768
BenG76 - 2180
rosco - 1196
agmoose - 1184
chris819 - 1180
MetalMonkey1980 - 1046
silverflake - 995
JustINaVW - 945
dpwozney - 591
jmaii - 587
4 bit - 388
xippi - 146
INDIAN HEAD PENNIES
2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 21:51 ET)
Bigsarge - 6
spacemanX - 5
cwgii - 2
sparechange - 1
Whinstone - 1
WHEAT PENNIES
2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 21:51 ET)
spacemanX - 2067
Bigsarge - 1127
cwgii - 1047
TwoAndAHalfCents - 1034
Whinstone - 441
Romalae - 349
Country - 258
plus1hdcp - 202
everything - 166
Sullysullinburg - 162
sparechange - 104
dpwozney - 62
rexmerdinus - 56
agmoose - 35
BenG76 - 29
silverflake - 29
MetalMonkey1980 - 18
rosco - 17
JustINaVW - 17
jmaii - 14
xippi - 6
4 bit - 5
chris819 - 1
CANADIAN COPPER PENNIES
2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 21:51 ET)
dpwozney - 15484
Bigsarge - 638
spacemanX - 484
cwgii - 275
rexmerdinus - 171
TwoAndAHalfCents - 163
everything - 74
Country - 65
plus1hdcp - 63
sparechange - 58
Romalae - 52
Whinstone - 15
rosco - 8
Sullysullinburg - 7
jmaii - 7
BenG76 - 6
silverflake - 6
agmoose - 5
JustINaVW - 5
4 bit - 5
1982 COPPER PENNIES
2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 21:51 ET)
TwoAndAHalfCents - 1922
cwgii - 1695
plus1hdcp - 1540
Country - 1146
sparechange - 376
Whinstone - 316
agmoose - 123
rexmerdinus - 56
jmaii - 41
rosco - 18
Sullysullinburg - 10
PERCENTAGE OF COPPERS NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS
2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 21:51 ET)
BenG76 - 87.20%
rexmerdinus - 62.56%
chris819 - 59.00%
jmaii - 29.35%
xippi - 29.20%
everything - 28.85%
Bigsarge - 28.67%
cwgii - 27.24%
Sullysullinburg - 27.22%
agmoose - 23.68%
4 bit - 23.52%
Country - 23.16%
Whinstone - 22.14%
JustINaVW - 21.98%
MetalMonkey1980 - 20.92%
rosco - 20.62%
plus1hdcp - 20.37%
silverflake - 19.90%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 19.39%
sparechange - 18.20%
spacemanX - 15.23%
Romalae - 15.06%
dpwozney - 1.28%
PERCENTAGE OF CANADIAN COPPERS
2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 21:51 ET)
dpwozney - 33.66%
rexmerdinus - 1.25%
jmaii - 0.35%
4 bit - 0.30%
BenG76 - 0.24%
Bigsarge - 0.20%
everything - 0.20%
sparechange - 0.19%
rosco - 0.14%
Whinstone - 0.12%
silverflake - 0.12%
JustINaVW - 0.12%
Country - 0.11%
spacemanX - 0.11%
agmoose - 0.10%
plus1hdcp - 0.10%
cwgii - 0.08%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 0.08%
Romalae - 0.04%
Sullysullinburg - 0.02%
chris819 - 0.00%
xippi - 0.00%
MetalMonkey1980 - 0.00%
COPPER SEARCHER SCORE
SCORE = (COINS-SEARCHED) * (COPPERs) / 250000
2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 21:51 ET)
spacemanX - 124174.00
cwgii - 120399.84
Bigsarge - 116027.10
TwoAndAHalfCents - 36211.70
Romalae - 9238.46
plus1hdcp - 3564.51
Country - 3137.20
dpwozney - 2969.21
everything - 1659.00
Sullysullinburg - 928.96
sparechange - 697.11
rexmerdinus - 482.13
Whinstone - 161.20
rosco - 28.33
agmoose - 24.48
BenG76 - 22.15
MetalMonkey1980 - 21.28
silverflake - 20.60
JustINaVW - 16.63
chris819 - 9.45
jmaii - 4.86
4 bit - 2.63
xippi - 0.30
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2013 FOREIGN LEGION SECTION
1 Austria 50 Groschen - '84 (found by spacemanX)
23 Bahamas 1c - '85 (found by uthminsta), '92 (found by spacemanX), (2) '98 (1 found by spacemanX, 1 found by Country), '04 (found by Country), (2) '06 (1 found by Country, 1 found by plus1hdcp), (16) unspecified date (14 found by spacemanX, 2 found by Romalae)
4 Barbados 1c - '73 (found by JustINaVW), '03 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), (2) unspecified date (2 found by spacemanX)
5 Bermuda 1c - (2) '71 (2 found by Bigsarge), '78 (found by cwgii), '80 (found by spacemanX), (2) unspecified date (2 found by spacemanX)
9 Euro 2c - '08 (found by JustINaVW), (8) unspecified date (3 found by spacemanX, 5 found by Romalae)
4 France 2c Euro - (2) '99 (1 found by cwgii, 1 found by spacemanX), '01 (found by cwgii), '07 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Germany 1 Pfennig - unspecified date (found by spacemanX)
4 Germany 2 Pfennig - '67 (found by cwgii), '76( found by cwgii), '84 (found by cwgii), unspecified date (found by spacemanX)
1 Germany 5 Pfennig - unspecified date (found by Romalae)
8 Germany 2c Euro -(2) '02 (2 found by cwgii), '04 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '07 (found by cwgii), '08 (found by cwgii), '11 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '12 (found by cwgii), unspecified date (found by spacemanX)
8 Great Britain New Penny -'73 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '86 (found by spacemanX), '88 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '01 (found by cwgii), (4) unspecified date (2 found by Romalae, 2 found by spacemanX)
1 Hong Kong 10c - '90 (found by cwgii)
1 Hong Kong 20c - unspecified date (found by Romalae)
1 Ireland 2c Euro - '02 (found by Bigsarge)
2 Italy 2c Euro - '02 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '08 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Mexico 1c - '46 (found by cwgii)
4 Mexico 5c - '56 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '70 (found by cwgii), '72 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '73 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents),'74 (found by cwgii)
1 Mexico 5 peso - '85 (found by cwgii)
1 Netherlands 1c - '42 (found by jmaii)
1 Netherlands 5c - '98 (found by plus1hdcp)
1 Netherlands 25c - '80 (found by spacemanX)
1 Norway 50 ore - '98 (found by spacemanX)
24 Panama 1c -'74 (found by cwgii), '78 (found by spacemanX), '80(Bigsarge), '83 (found by plus1hdcp), '93 (found by plus1hdcp), (3) '96 (1 found by spacemanX, 2 found by Country), (4) '01 (1 found by spacemanX, 1 found by cwgii, 2 found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '08 (found by sparechange), (11) unspecified date (8 found by spacemanX, 3 found by Romalae)
1 Philippines 25 sentimos - '04 (found by uthminsta)
1 Portugal 2c Euro - unspecified date (found by spacemanX)
1 Russian 5 kopek - '01 (found by spacemanX)
1 South Africa 20c - '43 (found by cwgii)
2 Spain 2c Euro - '99 (found by cwgii), '07 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Switzerland 10 rappen - '83 (found by BigSarge)
2 Taiwan 1 Yuan - '81 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '96 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
NUMBER OF COINS FOUND BY COUNTRY
Austria - 1
Bahamas - 23
Barbados - 4
Bermuda - 6
Euro - 9
France - 4
Germany - 14
Great Britain - 8
Hong Kong - 2
Ireland - 1
Italy - 2
Mexico - 8
Netherlands - 3
Norway - 1
Panama - 24
Philippines - 1
Portugal - 1
Russia - 1
South Africa - 1
Spain - 2
Switzerland - 1
Taiwan - 2