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$25 String box
721 Copper non-wheats (28.84%)
- 554 Nice coppers
- 103 Ugly Abes
- 10 S-mint copper
- 54 1982's copper (Scale checked)
14 1982 Zinc
8 Wheats - Oldest 1942
4 Canadian copper 70, 72, 87, 95

$50 Bank Bag

1622 non-wheat/non-copper 82's/non-canadian copper cents

+22 wheats (oldest 1929)
+122 copper 82's (scale checked)
+12 canadian copper cents (oldest 1962)(still working on that box)

other finds:

12 s-mints (1968-1974)(still working on that box)
1 plastic penny
1-10 cent euro

$25 String Box (December #2)
772 Non Wheat and Non Canadian Copper (30.9%)
13 Wheat - 1940 to 1956
11 Canadian copper - from 1940 to 1992

800 CWRs:

1- dime
6- wheats
10- Canadian Cu
23- '82s Cu & Zn
167- Cu
593- Zn
800- Total

$50.00 CWRs

1154 copper non wheat non candian
plus
10 wheat
9 Can Cu (total Cu 23.46%)
1 1pfennig
6 dimes & 37 extra cents for a 97 cent profit

$15.00 (SHORTED ONE PENNY TOTAL--The only two rolls that were shorted were the plastic BWRs!!!) - 16 CWRs & 14 BWRs


1959 - 1981 Cu pennies - 545 (Best was 100% Cu X 6 rolls; Worst was 10% Cu X 2 rolls)


Cu "S" Mint Mark - 2

1982 Cu - 30
1982 Zinc - 5
(1982 Pennies are checked on a digital scale)

Indian Head - None

Wheats - 5 (No Pre-40 Wheat)

Canadian Cu - 5

2009 - LP1 - 0
2009 - LP2 - 0
2009 - LP3 - 0
2009 - LP4 - 0
(2009 is the year our son married so I keep the 2009 coins for anniversary coin jars for future anniversary gifts.)

Other - 4 -- 2010 Shield Pennies (all P mint mark)

*Please Note: I do not keep track of the kids' birth years (both are zinc years) any longer, although I save them, unless it is some spectacular amount in a roll.


Enjoy your coin searches, everyone.

Edited to fix the best percentage figure.

PreservingThePast wrote:$15.00 (SHORTED ONE PENNY TOTAL--The only two rolls that were shorted were the plastic BWRs!!!) - 16 CWRs & 14 BWRs


1959 - 1981 Cu pennies - 545 (Best was 34% Cu X 1 roll; Worst was 10% Cu X 2 rolls)


Cu "S" Mint Mark - 2

1982 Cu - 30
1982 Zinc - 5
(1982 Pennies are checked on a digital scale)

Indian Head - None

Wheats - 5 (No Pre-40 Wheat)

Canadian Cu - 5

2009 - LP1 - 0
2009 - LP2 - 0
2009 - LP3 - 0
2009 - LP4 - 0
(2009 is the year our son married so I keep the 2009 coins for anniversary coin jars for future anniversary gifts.)

Other - 4 -- 2010 Shield Pennies (all P mint mark)

*Please Note: I do not keep track of the kids' birth years (both are zinc years) any longer, although I save them, unless it is some spectacular amount in a roll.


Enjoy your coin searches, everyone.

I see your overall COPPER percentage higher at 38.33%. 575 COPPERs found looking through 1500 pennies.

$25 Brinks Box (December #3)
680 Non Wheat and Non Canadian Copper (27.2%)
21 Wheat - with 1919, 1927, and 1937.
4 Canadian copper - from 1974 to 1981

Country wrote:

PreservingThePast wrote:$15.00 (SHORTED ONE PENNY TOTAL--The only two rolls that were shorted were the plastic BWRs!!!) - 16 CWRs & 14 BWRs


1959 - 1981 Cu pennies - 545 (Best was 34% Cu X 1 roll; Worst was 10% Cu X 2 rolls)


Cu "S" Mint Mark - 2

1982 Cu - 30
1982 Zinc - 5
(1982 Pennies are checked on a digital scale)

Indian Head - None

Wheats - 5 (No Pre-40 Wheat)

Canadian Cu - 5

2009 - LP1 - 0
2009 - LP2 - 0
2009 - LP3 - 0
2009 - LP4 - 0
(2009 is the year our son married so I keep the 2009 coins for anniversary coin jars for future anniversary gifts.)

Other - 4 -- 2010 Shield Pennies (all P mint mark)

*Please Note: I do not keep track of the kids' birth years (both are zinc years) any longer, although I save them, unless it is some spectacular amount in a roll.


Enjoy your coin searches, everyone.

I see your overall COPPER percentage higher at 38.33%. 575 COPPERs found looking through 1500 pennies.

Country.......THANK YOU!!! Thanks for being my much needed eyes and mind. I have edited my post. I had six rolls total that were 100% Cu but all the zeros ran together so blame it on my vision. PLUS, I can't hold a thought for very long at all so my memory failed me too. In order to check the accuracy of my roll count I have to count to ten by the number of piles for the coins, example count to ten, five times for pennies as there is no way I can count to fifty any more. I have trouble even remembering my count and have to start over too often any more.

I hope my deteriorating health won't cause me to have to surrender this hobby too.

$25 String box
703 Copper non-wheats (28.12%)
- 576 Nice coppers
- 66 Ugly Abes
- 3 S-mint copper
- 58 1982's copper (Scale checked)
17 1982 Zinc
10 Wheats - Oldest 1941D
0 Canadian copper

My 1st time not finding any Canadians in a box.

$25 String Box (December #4)
720 Non Wheat and Non Canadian Copper (28.8%)
15 Wheat - 1940 to 1956
8 Canadian copper - from 1958 to 1987

$25 Brinks Box (December #5)
748 Non Wheat and Non Canadian Copper (29.92%)
18 Wheat - with 1918, 1937, and 1939.
5 Canadian copper - from 1969 to 1994

$25 Brinks Box/ $25 String Box
$50 searched

1872 non-wheat/non-copper 82's/non-canadian copper cents

+29 wheats (oldest 1909, 1937)
+71 copper 82's
+11 canadian copper cents (oldest 1947-King) (still working on that box)

other finds:

18 s-mints (1968-1974)(still working on that box, too)

The Brinks box was a little low on copper and wheat, but the String box was one of the best ever I've seen. Lots of the rolls were mostly copper. I did the Brinks one first, then the String box. I just added the String coppers and zincs to the piles created by the Brinks box. I wish I hadn't after about 10 rolls. There were lots of super looking shiny coppers in almost every roll! I bet the % on that String box had to have been close to 50%. All I got to show is the totals for both boxes combined!

TheJonasCollegeFund wrote: 18 s-mints (1968-1974)(still working on that box, too)

Do you mean a box of S-mint memorials? Interesting. How far are you? And how much total have you sorted to get to that point?

One box of cents...

693 coppers-including weight checked '82's (27.22%)
4--12 sided Canadian coppers
1 steel Canadian
6 wheats--oldest was 1944
1796 zincs

Box of cents

575 coppers 23%
5 Wheat oldest 1944
7 Canadian


$5.00 teller Wraps

127 Copper 25.4%
1 Canadian
6 Wheat Oldest 1947



Pocket change an Give a penny Take

11 coppers

Several days part time sorting, need to make a cent Run
After I get down south to Niland, Calif

uthminsta wrote:

TheJonasCollegeFund wrote: 18 s-mints (1968-1974)(still working on that box, too)

Do you mean a box of S-mint memorials? Interesting. How far are you? And how much total have you sorted to get to that point?

I'm about half way there. It's been a long hard strugle. Since I'm in Hoosierland, I don't seem to get many s-mints.

TheJonasCollegeFund wrote:I'm about half way there. It's been a long hard strugle. Since I'm in Hoosierland, I don't seem to get many s-mints.

Yeah, I get that. In all the time I've been sorting (on and off since the 90's), I've lived in Illinois and Georgia and now back in Illinois. I've always kept the S-mints and my goal was to get a roll of each. I don't know if I've reached that goal, but probably not. I'm a pretty small time sorter...

$22.50 in various customer and machine rolls produced.

451 CU
7 Wheats
1 Canadian

Also when dumping my halves I always toss in 4 zincs to get 4 cents back and this time it worked out nicely.... 2 wheats came out of the change machine at the bank counter.

$15.00 (SHORTED TWO CENTS TOTAL--One of the shorted rolls was again a BWR) - 18 CWRs & 12 BWRs


1959 - 1981 Cu pennies - 353 (Best was 100% Cu X 2 rolls; Worst was 2% Cu X 1 roll--Counting the roll with the 45 wheat cents as the worst roll is sort of an oxymoron but it only contained the one non-wheat 95% Cu coin)


Cu "S" Mint Mark - 2 ('70, '74)

1982 Cu - 32
1982 Zinc - 3
(1982 Pennies are checked on a digital scale)

Indian Head - None

Wheats - 49 (Three Pre-40 Wheats--1/1919, 1/1936D, 1/1937)

Canadian Cu - 1 ('57)

2009 - LP1 - 2 (1-"D")
2009 - LP2 - 3
2009 - LP3 - 1 (1"D")
2009 - LP4 - 2
(2009 is the year our son married so I keep the 2009 coins for anniversary coin jars for future anniversary gifts.)

Other - 5 -- 2010 Shield Pennies (all P mint mark)

*Please Note: I do not keep track of the kids' birth years (both are zinc years) any longer, although I save them, unless it is some spectacular amount in a roll.


Enjoy your coin searches, everyone.

$25 Brinks box
- 684Copper non-wheats (27.36%)
- 539 Nice coppers
- 74 Ugly Abes
- 3 S-mint copper
- 68 1982's copper (Scale checked)
17 1982 Zinc
11 Wheats - Oldest 1940
3 Canadian copper 69, 70, 78

Other 1993 uncoated Lincoln ( no copper coating) and a 1998 Wide AM

$25 box finished last night.

618 coppers non-wheat (includes copper 82's)
7 wheats
2 Canadian copper

$50 Bank Bag

1224 non-wheat/non-copper 82's/non-canadian copper cents

+27 wheats (oldest 1918, 1919d, 1920d, 1930d, 1939)
+101 copper 82's (scale weighed)
+7 canadian coppers (oldest 1957) (still working on that box)

other finds:

17 s-mints (1968-1974) (still working on that box)

1-1998 Wide AM

$50 CWRs

1159 total Cu non wheat non can Cu
plus
10 wheat
3 can Cu
(23.44% copper)
2 dimes

$25 String Box (December #6)
734 Non Wheat and Non Canadian Copper (29.4%)
13 Wheat - 1938 to 1958
10 Canadian copper - from 1966 to 1989