November 2013 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

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Hello Fellow Copper Penny Handsorters:

In November 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 November 28, 2013 2:10 pm forum time and earlier.

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COPPER PENNIES (NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS)
November 2013 FULL LIST (as of 12/1/13 15:25 ET)



Bigsarge - 6876
TwoAndAHalfCents - 5086
plus1hdcp - 4477
everything - 743
Country - 546
Sullysullinburg - 463
sparechange - 418
spacemanX - 414
rosco - 224



INDIAN HEAD PENNIES
November 2013 FULL LIST (as of 12/1/13 15:25 ET)



Sullysullinburg - 1
spacemanX - 1



WHEAT PENNIES
November 2013 FULL LIST (as of 12/1/13 15:25 ET)



Bigsarge - 277
TwoAndAHalfCents - 87
plus1hdcp - 84
spacemanX - 70
everything - 14
sparechange - 12
Country - 10
Sullysullinburg - 7
rosco 1



CANADIAN COPPER PENNIES
November 2013 FULL LIST (as of 12/1/13 15:25 ET)



Bigsarge - 56
TwoAndAHalfCents - 21
plus1hdcp - 19
everything - 7
sparechange - 6
Country - 5
spacemanX - 2
rosco - 2
Sullysullinburg - 1



1982 COPPER PENNIES
November 2013 FULL LIST (as of 12/1/13 15:25 ET)



plus1hdcp - 464
TwoAndAHalfCents - 252
Country - 38
sparechange - 27



PERCENTAGE OF COPPERS NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS
November 2013 FULL LIST (as of 12/1/13 15:25 ET)



Sullysullinburg - 30.87%
everything - 29.72%
Bigsarge - 27.50%
rosco - 22.40%
plus1hdcp - 22.39%
Country - 21.84%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 18.49%
sparechange - 16.72%
spacemanX - 16.56%



PERCENTAGE OF CANADIAN COPPERS
November 2013 FULL LIST (as of 12/1/13 15:25 ET)



everything - 0.28%
sparechange - 0.24%
Bigsarge - 0.22%
rosco - 0.20%
Country - 0.20%
plus1hdcp - 0.10%
spacemanX - 0.08%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 0.08%
Sullysullinburg - 0.07%



COPPER SEARCHER SCORE
SCORE = (COINS-SEARCHED) * (COPPERs) / 250000
November 2013 FULL LIST (as of 12/1/13 15:25 ET)



Bigsarge - 720.90
TwoAndAHalfCents - 571.34
plus1hdcp - 366.40
everything - 7.64
Country - 5.61
spacemanX - 4.86
sparechange - 4.36
Sullysullinburg - 2.83
rosco - 0.91


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2013 FULL YEAR STATISTICS

COPPER PENNIES (NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS)
2013 FULL LIST (as of 12/1/13 15:25 ET)



Bigsarge - 97196
cwgii - 89890
spacemanX - 67907
TwoAndAHalfCents - 46391
Romalae - 18453
plus1hdcp - 17817
Country - 13863
everything - 11563
rexmerdinus - 8571
Sullysullinburg - 8330
sparechange - 5970
Whinstone - 2768
BenG76 - 2180
rosco - 1420
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 12/1/13 15:25 ET)



Bigsarge - 6
spacemanX - 6
cwgii - 2
sparechange - 1
Whinstone - 1
Sullysullinburg - 1



WHEAT PENNIES
2013 FULL LIST (as of 12/1/13 15:25 ET)



spacemanX - 2137
Bigsarge - 1404
TwoAndAHalfCents - 1121
cwgii - 1047
Whinstone - 441
Romalae - 349
plus1hdcp - 286
Country - 268
everything - 180
Sullysullinburg - 169
sparechange - 116
dpwozney - 62
rexmerdinus - 56
agmoose - 35
BenG76 - 29
silverflake - 29
rosco - 18
MetalMonkey1980 - 18
JustINaVW - 17
jmaii - 14
xippi - 6
4 bit - 5
chris819 - 1



CANADIAN COPPER PENNIES
2013 FULL LIST (as of 12/1/13 15:25 ET)



dpwozney - 15484
Bigsarge - 694
spacemanX - 486
cwgii - 275
TwoAndAHalfCents - 184
rexmerdinus - 171
plus1hdcp - 82
everything - 81
Country - 70
sparechange - 64
Romalae - 52
Whinstone - 15
rosco - 10
Sullysullinburg - 8
jmaii - 7
BenG76 - 6
silverflake - 6
agmoose - 5
JustINaVW - 5
4 bit - 5



1982 COPPER PENNIES
2013 FULL LIST (as of 12/1/13 15:25 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 2174
plus1hdcp - 2004
cwgii - 1695
Country - 1184
sparechange - 403
Whinstone - 316
agmoose - 123
rexmerdinus - 56
jmaii - 41
rosco - 18
Sullysullinburg - 10



PERCENTAGE OF COPPERS NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS
2013 FULL LIST (as of 12/1/13 15:25 ET)



BenG76 - 87.20%
rexmerdinus - 62.56%
chris819 - 59.00%
jmaii - 29.35%
xippi - 29.20%
everything - 28.91%
Bigsarge - 28.59%
Sullysullinburg - 27.40%
cwgii - 27.24%
agmoose - 23.68%
4 bit - 23.52%
Country - 23.11%
Whinstone - 22.14%
JustINaVW - 21.98%
MetalMonkey1980 - 20.92%
rosco - 20.88%
plus1hdcp - 20.84%
silverflake - 19.90%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 19.29%
sparechange - 18.09%
spacemanX - 15.24%
Romalae - 15.06%
dpwozney - 1.28%



PERCENTAGE OF CANADIAN COPPERS
2013 FULL LIST (as of 12/1/13 15:25 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 - 0.15%
Whinstone - 0.12%
silverflake - 0.12%
Country - 0.12%
JustINaVW - 0.12%
spacemanX - 0.11%
agmoose - 0.10%
plus1hdcp - 0.10%
cwgii - 0.08%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 0.08%
Romalae - 0.04%
Sullysullinburg - 0.03%
chris819 - 0.00%
xippi - 0.00%
MetalMonkey1980 - 0.00%



COPPER SEARCHER SCORE
SCORE = (COINS-SEARCHED) * (COPPERs) / 250000
2013 FULL LIST (as of 12/1/13 15:25 ET)



Bigsarge - 135039.84
spacemanX - 125740.88
cwgii - 120399.84
TwoAndAHalfCents - 45883.55
Romalae - 9238.46
plus1hdcp - 6219.27
Country - 3408.24
dpwozney - 2969.21
everything - 1891.84
Sullysullinburg - 1034.45
sparechange - 811.80
rexmerdinus - 482.13
Whinstone - 161.20
rosco - 39.39
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)
2 Germany 5 Pfennig - '17 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), 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)
9 Great Britain New Penny -'71 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '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)
25 Panama 1c -'74 (found by cwgii), '78 (found by spacemanX), '80(Bigsarge), '83 (found by plus1hdcp), '93 (found by plus1hdcp), (4) '96 (1 found by spacemanX, 2 found by Country, 1 found by TwoAndAHalfCents), (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 10 sentimos - '06 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
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)
3 Spain 2c Euro - '99 (found by cwgii), (2) '07 (2 found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Switzerland 10 rappen - '83 (found by BigSarge)
4 Taiwan 1 Yuan - (3) '81 (3 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 - 15
Great Britain - 9
Hong Kong - 2
Ireland - 1
Italy - 2
Mexico - 8
Netherlands - 3
Norway - 1
Panama - 25
Philippines - 2
Portugal - 1
Russia - 1
South Africa - 1
Spain - 3
Switzerland - 1
Taiwan - 4

[Sullysullinburg]

$5 in pennies


173 coppers including copper 1982s 28.9%

2 wheats nothing older and



1887 Indain Head Penny!!!

[plus1hdcp]

$25.00 Box 22

512 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper canadian copper cents
+7 Wheats (45, 51Dx2, 52D, 53D, 55Dx2)
+57 Copper 1982
+1 Copper Canadian (1992)

577 Keepers 23.08%

Congrats on the IH Sully

[plus1hdcp]

$25.00 Box 23

554 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper canadian copper cents
+9 Wheats (44, 44D, 51, 52D, 53D, 56Dx2, 57Dx2)
+70 Copper 1982
+2 Copper Canadian (56, 81)

635 Keepers 25.40%

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$50 CWRs and BWRs

Wheats:
1 - older (1934)
12 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (17.36%):
823 - Memorial 1959-1981
45 - Memorial 1982

9 - Canada (1950, 1962, 1974, 1984, 1991, 2003, 2004 x2, 2007)
1 - Germany 5 pfennig (1917)
1 - Philippines 10 sentimo (2006)
2 - U.S. clad dimes

[Sullysullinburg]

$10 in BWR that's important


291 coppers including 1982 coppers and a 1963 Canadian in BU shape.



5 wheats including a 1939



And a clad dime in a BWR has anyone ever found this before?

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

And a clad dime in a BWR has anyone ever found this before?

The clad dimes turn up in once in a while. I have found 13 clad dimes out of around 120 boxes of pennies. Not near the frequency that I find them in CWRs.

[sparechange]

$25 Box

458-Total--non wheat/Canadian(17.5%)
235-Nice coppers
156-Uglies
27-'82's

12 Wheats--1927, rest common
6 Canadian--65,69,73,73,85,95

[spacemanX]

And a clad dime in a BWR has anyone ever found this before?

The clad dimes turn up in once in a while. I have found 13 clad dimes out of around 120 boxes of pennies. Not near the frequency that I find them in CWRs.

i have found many dimes in penny rolls. to date this year, I have found about $27.00 in dimes from penny rolls. but I search a lot.
as for the most crazy find ... in one 50 cent roll, i found 4 dimes. customer rolled last year. i got about 12 dimes in the $20 from the person.

good luck

[plus1hdcp]

$25.00 Box 24

456 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper canadian copper cents
+14 Wheats (42, 44x3, 44S, 46D, 47D, 53, 53Sx3, 56D, 58, 58D)
+72 Copper 1982
+3 Copper Canadian (81, 89, 95)

545 Keepers 21.80%

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$25 BWRs

Wheats:
10 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (18.40%):
438 - Memorial 1959-1981
22 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (1997)
1 - Panama 1 centesimo (1996)

[plus1hdcp]

$25.00 Box 25

431 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper canadian copper cents
+8 Wheats (45x2, 52S, 55D, 57, 57D, 58Dx2)
+41 Copper 1982
+5 Copper Canadian (77, 80x2, 81x2)

485 Keepers 19.40%

- Note - Lowest % box since I moved but still better than I averaged in West TN

[plus1hdcp]

$25.00 Box 26

531 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper canadian copper cents
+17 Wheats (19, 34, 41, 42, 44, 44S, 45, 46, 50D, 52D, 55D, 56, 56Dx3, 57, 57D)
+64 Copper 1982
+5 Copper Canadian (63, 65, 72, 73, 84)

617 Keepers 24.68%

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$25 CWRs

Wheats:
1 - older (1936-D)
12 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (25.88%):
609 - Memorial 1959-1981
38 - Memorial 1982

2 - Canada (1982, 1994)

1 - U.S. clad dime

[Bigsarge]

My Swheat score:

Bag # 49
Pennies: 5000

copper 1564 31.28%
zinc 3436

Wheats: Total: 204
40's: 90
50'S: 110
1935-D; 1925; 1920-S; 1918-S

Canadian Total: 12
Copper Total 9

50'S: 0
60'S: 1
70's: 5
80-96: 3

[everything]

25 box loomis
743 Copper LMC
7 Canadian copper
14 Wheats.
.3064

[plus1hdcp]

$25.00 Box 27

509 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper canadian copper cents
+7 Wheats (20, 42, 44, 52Dx2, 55, 58)
+55 Copper 1982
+1 Copper Canadian (96)

572 Keepers 22.88%

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$25 Brinks box

Wheats:
3 - older (1919, 1936-S x2)
6 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (19.28%):
453 - Memorial 1959-1981
29 - Memorial 1982

2 - Canada (1989, 2002)

[plus1hdcp]

$25.00 Box 28

521 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper canadian copper cents
+5 Wheats (42, 46D, 56D, 57Dx2)
+54 Copper 1982
+2 Copper Canadian (67, 84)

582 Keepers 23.28%

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$25 CWRs

Wheats:
6 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (17.20%):
410 - Memorial 1959-1981
20 - Memorial 1982

2 - Canada (1977, 1993)

1 - token from Denver mint set

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$25 Bank rolls

Wheats:
7 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (17.40%):
414 - Memorial 1959-1981
21 - Memorial 1982

6 - Canada (1951, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1979, 2011)

[spacemanX]

i have not been posting too many on the hand sorting site recently, but one box of customer and bank rolled coins was worth note.
$25 box half and half CWR BWR
414 copper
70 wheat
2 canada
1 indian 1899

two rolls accounted for 55 of the wheats and the indian.

[Bigsarge]

Bag # 50
Pennies: 5000

copper 1460 29.20%
zinc 3540

Wheats: Total: 18
40's: 6
50'S: 12

Canadian Total: 14
Copper Total 14

50'S: 2
60'S: 4
70's: 0
80-96: 8

[Rosco]

$5.00


131 copper 26.2%

1 1981 Canadian cent

String wrap from Credit Union

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$25 CWRs

Wheats:
2 - older (1937-S, 1939)
9 - 1940s/1950s (including a 1943-S steel)

Copper non-wheat (18.68%):
449 - Memorial 1959-1981
18 - Memorial 1982

2 = U.S. clad dimes