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Hello Fellow Copper Penny Handsorters:

In September 2012, 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 2012 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 2012 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 September 30, 2012 3:35 pm forum time and earlier.

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COPPER PENNIES (NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS)
September 2012 FULL LIST (as of 10/7/12 18:48 ET)



cwgii - 5850
TwoAndAHalfCents - 2733
everything - 2627
Country - 1950
sparechange - 1899
Whinstone - 1439
rosco - 96



INDIAN HEAD PENNIES
September 2012 FULL LIST (as of 10/7/12 18:48 ET)



NONE REPORTED



WHEAT PENNIES
September 2012 FULL LIST (as of 10/7/12 18:48 ET)



cwgii - 120
everything - 51
TwoAndAHalfCents - 46
Country - 42
Whinstone - 20
sparechange - 17



CANADIAN COPPER PENNIES
September 2012 FULL LIST (as of 10/7/12 18:48 ET)



cwgii - 65
everything - 23
TwoAndAHalfCents - 10
Whinstone - 10
sparechange - 9
Country - 5
rosco - 2



1982 COPPER PENNIES
September 2012 FULL LIST (as of 10/7/12 18:48 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 191
Whinstone - 166
Country - 154
sparechange - 138
rosco - 12



PERCENTAGE OF COPPERS NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS
September 2012 FULL LIST (as of 10/7/12 18:48 ET)



Whinstone - 28.78%
everything - 26.27%
Country - 26.00%
rosco - 19.20%
sparechange - 18.99%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 15.62%
cwgii - 14.63%



PERCENTAGE OF CANADIAN COPPERS
September 2012 FULL LIST (as of 10/7/12 18:48 ET)



rosco - 0.40%
everything - 0.23%
Whinstone - 0.20%
cwgii - 0.16%
sparechange - 0.09%
Country - 0.07%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 0.06%



COPPER SEARCHER SCORE
SCORE = (COINS-SEARCHED) * (COPPERs) / 250000
September 2012 FULL LIST (as of 10/7/12 18:48 ET)



cwgii - 965.60
TwoAndAHalfCents - 195.23
everything - 108.04
sparechange - 77.00
Country - 59.91
Whinstone - 29.38
rosco - 0.20


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2012 FULL YEAR STATISTICS

COPPER PENNIES (NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS)
2012 FULL LIST (as of 10/7/12 18:48 ET)



Morsecode - 98980
TheJonasCollegeFund - 62841
cwgii - 60961
Country - 41221
TwoAndAHalfCents - 31173
plus1hdcp - 18894
sparechange - 18247
Night Hawk - 17602
tractorman - 17502
Hirbonzig - 16874
Whinstone - 16349
everything - 13659
RichardPenny43 - 13308
Franco American - 11594
coinwolf - 9335
agmoose - 9314
thunter - 5588
appjoe - 2835
rosco - 2685
Elwood - 2455
NYSorter - 1803
Pij17 - 1674
cecropia_moth - 1474
Dave - 1455
Rejinx - 1420
merchoarder - 1409
slickeast - 998
Shifty51 - 943
duane1966 - 752
CanadianCopper - 617
dpwozney - 596
RTPMarine - 572
philadelphiafan - 509
mitsuki3 - 246
tulaneoutlaw - 168
CrazyTom - 151
4 bit - 85



INDIAN HEAD PENNIES
2012 FULL LIST (as of 10/7/12 18:48 ET)



Morsecode - 4
cwgii - 3
CrazyTom - 2
Country - 2
coinwolf - 1
sparechange - 1
Dave - 1
TwoAndAHalfCents - 1
CrazyTom - 1
Franco American - 1
Night Hawk - 1



WHEAT PENNIES
2012 FULL LIST (as of 10/7/12 18:48 ET)



Morsecode - 3107
cwgii - 1901
TheJonasCollegeFund - 1056
Country - 767
TwoAndAHalfCents - 581
CrazyTom - 402
Night Hawk - 381
tractorman - 320
sparechange - 288
Whinstone - 269
plus1hdcp - 262
everything - 220
agmoose - 220
Hirbonzig - 219
Franco American - 197
RichardPenny43 - 181
coinwolf - 167
dpwozney - 110
thunter - 74
appjoe - 74
Dave - 72
NYSorter - 42
CanadianCopper - 39
rosco - 37
Elwood - 31
Pij17 - 27
Shifty51 - 26
cecropia_moth - 25
merchoarder - 21
slickeast - 19
Rejinx - 12
philadelphiafan - 12
duane1966 - 11
mitsuki3 - 4
4 bit - 4
RTPMarine - 3
tulaneoutlaw - 1



CANADIAN COPPER PENNIES
2012 FULL LIST (as of 10/7/12 18:48 ET)



dpwozney - 16070
CanadianCopper - 11949
Morsecode - 2194
Franco American - 692
TheJonasCollegeFund - 540
cwgii - 457
Night Hawk - 190
Country - 181
TwoAndAHalfCents - 143
Hirbonzig - 127
everything - 113
Whinstone - 112
RichardPenny43 - 109
agmoose - 106
sparechange - 87
merchoarder - 81
plus1hdcp - 77
tractorman - 63
coinwolf - 38
thunter - 36
Dave - 20
NYSorter - 19
appjoe - 17
Pij17 - 13
rosco - 12
duane1966 - 11
Elwood - 9
cecropia_moth - 8
philadelphiafan - 6
Rejinx - 5
mitsuki3 - 5
slickeast - 4
Shifty51 - 3
CrazyTom - 2
4 bit - 2
RTPMarine - 1



1982 COPPER PENNIES
2012 FULL LIST (as of 10/7/12 18:48 ET)



Morsecode - 5767
TheJonasCollegeFund - 4145
Country - 3417
plus1hdcp - 2060
Whinstone - 1935
TwoAndAHalfCents - 1610
tractorman - 1427
sparechange - 1406
RichardPenny43 - 1134
agmoose - 605
appjoe - 260
Elwood - 226
rosco - 207
Night Hawk - 200
merchoarder - 133
cecropia_moth - 121
Shifty51 - 105
slickeast - 84
Hirbonzig - 12



PERCENTAGE OF COPPERS NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS
2012 FULL LIST (as of 10/7/12 18:48 ET)



Dave - 58.20%
Pij17 - 32.82%
CrazyTom - 31.72%
tractorman - 30.89%
duane1966 - 30.08%
NYSorter - 30.05%
cecropia_moth - 29.48%
everything - 28.76%
appjoe - 28.35%
RichardPenny43 - 28.02%
mitsuki3 - 27.33%
TheJonasCollegeFund - 27.03%
Hirbonzig - 26.57%
merchoarder - 26.09%
Franco American - 25.76%
Morsecode - 25.65%
thunter - 25.34%
agmoose - 24.84%
Whinstone - 24.57%
Night Hawk - 24.15%
Country - 24.04%
RTPMarine - 22.88%
4 bit - 21.25%
coinwolf - 20.74%
philadelphiafan - 20.36%
sparechange - 18.88%
Shifty51 - 18.86%
Rejinx - 18.68%
plus1hdcp - 18.24%
rosco - 18.14%
tulaneoutlaw - 16.80%
slickeast - 16.63%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 16.41%
cwgii - 16.04%
Elwood - 12.28%
CanadianCopper - 2.24%
dpwozney - 1.66%



PERCENTAGE OF CANADIAN COPPERS
2012 FULL LIST (as of 10/7/12 18:48 ET)



dpwozney - 44.64%
CanadianCopper - 43.45%
Franco American - 1.54%
merchoarder - 1.50%
Dave - 0.80%
Morsecode - 0.57%
mitsuki3 - 0.56%
4 bit - 0.50%
duane1966 - 0.44%
CrazyTom - 0.42%
NYSorter - 0.32%
agmoose - 0.28%
Night Hawk - 0.26%
Pij17 - 0.25%
philadelphiafan - 0.24%
everything - 0.24%
thunter - 0.23%
RichardPenny43 - 0.23%
Hirbonzig - 0.20%
appjoe - 0.17%
Whinstone - 0.17%
TheJonasCollegeFund - 0.16%
cecropia_moth - 0.16%
cwgii - 0.12%
tractorman - 0.11%
Country - 0.11%
sparechange - 0.09%
coinwolf - 0.08%
rosco - 0.08%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 0.08%
plus1hdcp - 0.07%
slickeast - 0.07%
Rejinx - 0.07%
Shifty51 - 0.06%
Elwood - 0.05%
RTPMarine - 0.04%
tulaneoutlaw - 0.00%



COPPER SEARCHER SCORE
SCORE = (COINS-SEARCHED) * (COPPERs) / 250000
2012 FULL LIST (as of 10/7/12 18:48 ET)



Morsecode - 160947.30
cwgii - 96244.88
TheJonasCollegeFund - 59926.41
Country - 28919.50
TwoAndAHalfCents - 24241.72
plus1hdcp - 7970.16
sparechange - 7199.27
Night Hawk - 5299.25
Whinstone - 4452.19
Hirbonzig - 4373.88
tractorman - 4052.74
everything - 2658.48
RichardPenny43 - 2583.62
dpwozney - 2415.74
Franco American - 2246.94
coinwolf - 1717.20
agmoose - 1446.00
CanadianCopper - 1386.55
thunter - 502.63
Elwood - 199.60
rosco - 161.85
appjoe - 117.04
NYSorter - 44.74
Rejinx - 43.68
Pij17 - 34.97
merchoarder - 32.64
cecropia_moth - 30.14
slickeast - 24.50
Shifty51 - 19.44
Dave - 15.47
duane1966 - 7.74
RTPMarine - 5.76
philadelphiafan - 5.27
CrazyTom - 1.06
mitsuki3 - 0.92
tulaneoutlaw - 0.68
4 bit - 0.15



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2012 FOREIGN LEGION SECTION

2 Austria 2 groschen - 1885 (found by agmoose), '26 (found by Rejinx)
1 Austria 10 groschen - '83 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Australia 5c - '05 (found by RichardPenny43)
29 Bahamas 1c - '77 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '85 (found by Country), '87 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), (2) '90 (1 found by Whinstone, 1 found by cwgii), (2) '92 (1 found by coinwolf, 1 found by agmoose), '96 (found by agmoose), (7) '98 (3 found by TheJonasCollegeFund, 1 found by RichardPenny43, 1 found by cwgii, 1 found by appjoe, 1 found by Whinstone), '00 (found by agmoose), (5) '01 (1 found by TheJonasCollegeFund, 1 found by Country, 1 found by agmoose, 1 found by Whinstone, 1 found by sparechange), (2) '04 (1 found by cwgii, 1 found by agmoose), (6) '06 (3 found by cwgii, 1 found by coinwolf, 1 found by RichardPenny43, 1 found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
3 Barbados 1c - '95 (found by appjoe), '98 (found by Whinstone), '99 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
5 Bermuda 1c - '73 (found by cwgii), '75 (found by cwgii), '77 (found by cwgii), '78 (found by coinwolf), '97 (found by TheJonasCollegeFund)
1 Canada Large 1c - '16 (found by CrazyTom)
3 China 1 jiao - '01 (found by Night Hawk), '02 (found by Country), '06 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Denmark 2 ore - '90 (found by cwgii)
3 Euro 2c -'99 (found by plus1hdcp), '02 (found by cwgii), '06 (found by cwgii)
1 France 10c - '85 (found by cwgii)
1 France 50c - '31 (found by CrazyTom)
3 France 2c Euro -'04 (found by cwgii), '08 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), unspecified date (found by cwgii)
1 Germany 10 Pfennig - '18 (found by CrazyTom)
4 Germany 2c Euro - '02 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '03 (found by TheJonasCollegeFund), (2) '08 (2 found by cwgii)
1 Great Britain Large 1/2 c - 1831 (found by CrazyTom)
2 Great Britain 1 penny - '89 (found by cwgii), '00 (found by cwgii)
1 Greece 10c Euro - '02 (found by TheJonasCollegeFund)
1 Honduras 2c - '56 (found by cwgii)
1 Hong Kong 20c - '80 (found by tractorman)
2 Ireland 2c - '02 (found by cwgii), '06 (found by cwgii)
2 Mexico 1c - '26 (found by cwgii), '37 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
3 Mexico 5c - '67 (found by coinwolf), (2) '73 (2 found by cwgii)
6 Mexico 20c - '83 (found by TheJonasCollegeFund), '94 (found by cwgii), '95 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '06 (found by cwgii), (2) '07 (1 found by cwgii, 1 found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Netherlands 1c - '50 (found by thunter)
1 Netherlands 2c Euro - '01 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Netherlands Antilles 1c - '61 (found by plus1hdcp)
1 New Zealand 1 penny - '72 (found by cwgii)
1 Norway 50 ore - '02 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
13 Panama 1c - '66 (found by agmoose), '79 (found by agmoose), '83 (found by cwgii), '86 (found by coinwolf), '91 (found by agmoose), (2) '93 (1 found by cwgii, 1 found by Country), (2) '96 (1 found by TwoAndAHalfCents, 1 found by cwgii), '98 (found by TheJonasCollegeFund), (2) '01 (1 found by sparechange, 1 found by Country), '07 (found by cwgii)
1 Russia 15 kopek - '90 (found by Night Hawk)
1 Serbia 1 dinar - '06 (found by TheJonasCollegeFund)
1 South Africa 1c - '78 (found by sparechange)
3 Spain 2c Euro - '01 (found by agmoose), '08 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '09 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
2 Sweden 50 ore - '02 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '03 (found by RichardPenny43)
1 Switzerland 10 rappen - '92 (found by sparechange)
2 Taiwan 1 Yuan - '93 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), unspecified date (found by cwgii)
1 UAE 1 fils - unspecified date (found by sparechange)

NUMBER OF COINS FOUND BY COUNTRY

Austria - 3
Australia - 1
Bahamas - 29
Barbados - 3
Bermuda - 5
Canada - 1
China - 3
Denmark - 1
Euro - 3
France - 5
Germany - 5
Great Britain - 3
Greece - 1
Honduras - 1
Hong Kong - 1
Ireland - 2
Mexico - 11
Netherlands - 2
Netherlands Antilles - 1
New Zealand - 1
Norway - 1
Panama - 13
Russia - 1
Serbia - 1
South Africa - 1
Spain - 3
Sweden - 2
Switzerland - 1
Taiwan - 2
UAE - 1

$25 - Brink's Box
635 Copper non-wheats (25.4%)
- 474 Nice coppers
- 118 Ugly Abes
- 43 1982's (ACE checked)
12 Wheats - 1934 and 11 others
1 Canadian copper - '92

$25 - Brink's Box
597 Copper non-wheats (23.9%)
- 413 Nice coppers
- 139 Ugly Abes
- 45 1982's (ACE checked)
19 Wheats - 1911 and 18 others, with a shiny 1952-D and 1957-D
1 Canadian copper - '68

$5.00 purchase
96 coppers....19.2%
included 12 82s
2 Canadians

Hope to get back into sorting But struggle with Supply

$25 CWRs

Wheats:
1 - older (1929-S)
5 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (17.44%):
408 - Memorial 1959-1981
28 - Memorial 1982

$25 CWRs

Wheats:
1 - older (1928-S)
5 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (15.80%):
359 - Memorial 1959-1981
36 - Memorial 1982

$10 BWR

172--Coppers--Non wheat/Canadian(17.2%)
98--Nice Cu
57--Uglies
17--'82's

1--Canadian--1989

Box #1 8/24 bank $25 loomis box
746 Copper LMC
3 Canadian Coppers
4 Wheats
.3012

1 -100.00
08-31--09-06--12


1959 == 16 with 2 "p"
60-67 == 206
68-74 == 428
75-81d== 621
75-81p== 269
82 == 174

wheat == 36 with zero , pre 40,

cdn == 18 with 15 , pre 1997

odds == dime - in a bwr, 1969 counterstamped with the moon landing,
1973 counterstamped with jfk, 2004 2 cent euro- france,,,,
and a taiwan 1 yaun. --- i have had a couple of these but could not describe them well enough to get someone to tell me what they were.

$25 Box

298 Coppers--Nonwheat/Canadian(19%)
133 Nice coppers
44 '82's

8 Wheat--oldest 1920,1930
5 Canadian--62,80,82,83,87

$25 Box

545--Coppers--non wheat/Canadian(21.8%)
250--Nice Cu
158--Uglies
37--'82's

2--Wheats--commons
2--Canadians--'70,'74

1--Bahamas Cent--2001

Box #2 8/31 loomis $25 box
656 copper LMC
4 Canadian Coppers
13 Wheats
.2692

Box #3 9/7/12 loomis $25 bank box
586 copper LMC
7 copper Canadians
18 wheats
.2444

$25 CWRs

Wheats:
5 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (18.88%):
445 - Memorial 1959-1981
27 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (2006)

2 - U.S. clad dimes

Box #4 9/7/12 loomis $25 box
639 copper LMC
9 copper Canadian
16 wheats
.2656

$25 CWRs

Wheats:
2 - older (1919, 1920)
5 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (18.52%):
430 - Memorial 1959-1981
33 - Memorial 1982

2 - Canada (1959, 2005)

2 - U.S. clad dimes

2 - South Korea 10 Won (2009) http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1654.html

$25 Bank wrapped rolls

Wheats:
5 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (6.12%):
139 - Memorial 1959-1981
14 - Memorial 1982

2 - Canada (1963, 2001)

A whole lot of solid 2012-D rolls in the batch

$10 BWR

203--Coppers--Non wheat/Canadian(20.3%)
130--Nice Coppers
60--Uglies
13--'82's


1--Common wheat
1--Canadian, 1980

$25 Brinks box

Wheats:
2 - older (1935, 1935-S)
7 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (15.48%):
370 - Memorial 1959-1981
17 - Memorial 1982

4 - Canada (1972, 1974, 1991, 1995)

$10 BWR

201--Coppers, non wheat/Canadians(20.1%)
132--Nice coppers
55--Uglies
14--'82's

2 wheats--1927, common

$25 - Brink's Box
718 Copper non-wheats (28.7%)
- 519 Nice coppers
- 133 Ugly Abes
- 66 1982's (ACE checked)
11 Wheats - 1930 and 10 others
3 Canadian copper - '73,'88,'92

$50 bag from the bank

1439 cu memorials

20 wheat pennies...oldest "40"

10 cu canadians....oldest "64"

1982's 19 zinc 166 copper ...weighed

also found a stamped penny with the state of NC

$10 BWR

154--Total Coppers--non wheat/Canadians(15.4%)
97--Nice coppers
53--uglies
4--'82's

no wheats or Canadians

3 -100.00
9-05--9-11,,9-11--13, 9-19--26


1959 == 19-4, 16-4, 15-1 with "p"
60-67 == 193, 162, 18
68-74 == 479, 395, 403
75-81d== 672, 596,547
75-81p== 281,254,260
82 == 187, 162, 159

wheat == 35 with 5 , pre 40, 27,27 37, 15, 37
lot 2 ==29 with no,
lot 3 ==20 with 34,34, 35s

cdn == 21 with 19 , pre 1997
lot 2 == 19/13
lot 3 ==19/18

odds == 1973 jfk stamped, 1998 20 cent mexico,
lot 2 == dimes x3
lot 3 == 1996 balboa, dime

notes== lot two had one 10$ batch that had already been sorted
lot 3 had two batches that had fire and or water damage, so i probably

missed a few.

$10 BWR

149--Coppers-nonwheat/Canadian(14.9%)
95--Nice coppers
45--Uglies
9--'82's

4 wheats, all common