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Hello Fellow Copper Penny Handsorters:

In September 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 September 29, 2013 7:00 pm forum time and earlier.

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COPPER PENNIES (NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS)
September 2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 18:49 ET)



Bigsarge - 11389
cwgii - 9754
TwoAndAHalfCents - 6642
Sullysullinburg - 5537
Country - 1109
sparechange - 544
dpwozney - 157
plus1hdcp - 111
rosco - 108



INDIAN HEAD PENNIES
September 2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 18:49 ET)



NONE REPORTED



WHEAT PENNIES
September 2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 18:49 ET)



cwgii - 270
Bigsarge - 173
TwoAndAHalfCents - 152
Sullysullinburg - 107
Country - 19
dpwozney - 17
sparechange - 6
plus1hdcp - 5



CANADIAN COPPER PENNIES
September 2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 18:49 ET)



dpwozney - 3469
Bigsarge - 93
cwgii - 54
TwoAndAHalfCents - 23
Country - 6
Sullysullinburg - 1
sparechange - 1



1982 COPPER PENNIES
September 2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 18:49 ET)



cwgii - 778
TwoAndAHalfCents - 301
Country - 106
sparechange - 34
plus1hdcp - 17
rosco - 11



PERCENTAGE OF COPPERS NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS
September 2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 18:49 ET)



Bigsarge - 26.80%
Sullysullinburg - 26.18%
plus1hdcp - 22.20%
Country - 22.18%
sparechange - 21.76%
rosco - 21.60%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 20.44%
cwgii - 16.26%
dpwozney - 1.57%



PERCENTAGE OF CANADIAN COPPERS
September 2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 18:49 ET)



dpwozney - 34.69%
Bigsarge - 0.22%
Country - 0.12%
cwgii - 0.09%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 0.07%
sparechange - 0.04%
Sullysullinburg - 0.00%
plus1hdcp - 0.00%
rosco - 0.00%



COPPER SEARCHER SCORE
SCORE = (COINS-SEARCHED) * (COPPERs) / 250000
September 2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 18:49 ET)



cwgii - 2418.72
Bigsarge - 1981.35
TwoAndAHalfCents - 886.21
Sullysullinburg - 477.57
dpwozney - 145.72
Country - 22.68
sparechange - 5.51
plus1hdcp - 0.23
rosco - 0.22


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2013 FULL YEAR STATISTICS

COPPER PENNIES (NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS)
2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 18:49 ET)



cwgii - 82878
Bigsarge - 75789
spacemanX - 67493
TwoAndAHalfCents - 32323
Romalae - 18453
Country - 13317
everything - 10104
rexmerdinus - 8571
plus1hdcp - 6659
Sullysullinburg - 5828
sparechange - 5198
Whinstone - 2288
BenG76 - 2180
agmoose - 1184
chris819 - 1180
MetalMonkey1980 - 1046
silverflake - 995
JustINaVW - 945
dpwozney - 591
jmaii - 587
rosco - 549
4 bit - 388
xippi - 146



INDIAN HEAD PENNIES
2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 18:49 ET)



spacemanX - 5
cwgii - 2
Bigsarge - 2
sparechange - 1
Whinstone - 1



WHEAT PENNIES
2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 18:49 ET)



spacemanX - 2067
Bigsarge - 936
cwgii - 903
TwoAndAHalfCents - 850
Romalae - 349
Country - 258
everything - 153
Sullysullinburg - 113
sparechange - 96
plus1hdcp - 93
dpwozney - 62
rexmerdinus - 56
Whinstone - 36
agmoose - 35
BenG76 - 29
silverflake - 29
MetalMonkey1980 - 18
JustINaVW - 17
jmaii - 14
rosco - 13
xippi - 6
4 bit - 5
chris819 - 1



CANADIAN COPPER PENNIES
2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 18:49 ET)



dpwozney - 15484
Bigsarge - 530
spacemanX - 484
cwgii - 241
rexmerdinus - 171
TwoAndAHalfCents - 120
everything - 68
Country - 65
sparechange - 57
Romalae - 52
plus1hdcp - 29
Whinstone - 11
jmaii - 7
BenG76 - 6
silverflake - 6
agmoose - 5
JustINaVW - 5
4 bit - 5
rosco - 4
Sullysullinburg - 2



1982 COPPER PENNIES
2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 18:49 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 1444
cwgii - 1157
Country - 1146
plus1hdcp - 750
sparechange - 354
Whinstone - 246
agmoose - 123
rexmerdinus - 56
jmaii - 41
rosco - 18



PERCENTAGE OF COPPERS NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS
2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 18:49 ET)



BenG76 - 87.20%
rexmerdinus - 62.56%
chris819 - 59.00%
jmaii - 29.35%
xippi - 29.20%
Bigsarge - 29.15%
everything - 28.87%
cwgii - 28.58%
Sullysullinburg - 26.31%
agmoose - 23.68%
4 bit - 23.52%
Country - 23.16%
Whinstone - 22.88%
JustINaVW - 21.98%
MetalMonkey1980 - 20.92%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 20.20%
silverflake - 19.90%
rosco - 19.61%
plus1hdcp - 18.24%
sparechange - 18.24%
spacemanX - 15.23%
Romalae - 15.06%
dpwozney - 1.28%



PERCENTAGE OF CANADIAN COPPERS
2013 FULL LIST (as of 11/23/13 18:49 ET)



dpwozney - 33.66%
rexmerdinus - 1.25%
jmaii - 0.35%
4 bit - 0.30%
BenG76 - 0.24%
Bigsarge - 0.20%
sparechange - 0.20%
everything - 0.19%
rosco - 0.14%
silverflake - 0.12%
JustINaVW - 0.12%
Country - 0.11%
Whinstone - 0.11%
spacemanX - 0.11%
agmoose - 0.10%
cwgii - 0.08%
plus1hdcp - 0.08%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 0.08%
Romalae - 0.04%
Sullysullinburg - 0.01%
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 18:49 ET)



spacemanX - 124174.00
cwgii - 97465.52
Bigsarge - 80345.20
TwoAndAHalfCents - 21307.52
Romalae - 9238.46
Country - 3137.20
dpwozney - 2969.21
everything - 1445.50
plus1hdcp - 990.03
sparechange - 610.01
Sullysullinburg - 526.55
rexmerdinus - 482.13
Whinstone - 93.40
agmoose - 24.48
BenG76 - 22.15
MetalMonkey1980 - 21.28
silverflake - 20.60
JustINaVW - 16.63
chris819 - 9.45
rosco - 6.34
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)
22 Bahamas 1c - '85 (found by uthminsta), '92 (found by spacemanX), (2) '98 (1 found by spacemanX, 1 found by Country), '04 (found by Country), '06 (found by Country), (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 Italy 2c Euro - '08 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Mexico 1c - '46 (found by cwgii)
3 Mexico 5c - '70 (found by cwgii), '72 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '73 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents),'74 (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)
21 Panama 1c - '78 (found by spacemanX), '80(Bigsarge), '83 (found by plus1hdcp), (3) '96 (1 found by spacemanX, 2 found by Country), (3) '01 (1 found by spacemanX, 1 found by cwgii, 1 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 - 22
Barbados - 4
Bermuda - 6
Euro - 9
France - 4
Germany - 14
Great Britain - 8
Hong Kong - 2
Italy - 1
Mexico - 6
Netherlands - 3
Norway - 1
Panama - 21
Philippines - 1
Portugal - 1
Russia - 1
South Africa - 1
Spain - 2
Switzerland - 1
Taiwan - 2

40 rolls of pennies, 2000 pennies total sorted

616 (30.8%) brass pennies total, broken down as follows:

116 (5.8%) Canadian dated 1942-1977 (98% copper, 0.5% tin, 1.5% zinc);

474 (23.7%) Canadian dated 1978-1996 (98% copper, 1.75% tin, 0.25% zinc); and,

26 (1.3%) American (including 5 wheats) dated 1909-1981 (mostly 95% copper, 5% zinc).

$8 in pennies


4 wheats oldest 1948


202 copper 25.25%


1973 Canadain

Box # 16
Pennies: 2500

copper 688 27.52%
zinc 1812

Wheats: Total: 11

40's: 5
50's: 5
1918

Canadian: Total: 12
Copper Total: 11

50's: 1
60's: 2
70's: 4
80 - 96: 5

$25 Box

Wheats:
1 - older (1936)
2 - 1950s

Copper non-wheat (15.92%):
371 - Memorial 1959-1981
27 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (1990)

$16.50 in pennies

426 copper 25.81%


4 wheats nothing old

$26 pennies


13 wheats (3 older(1915-D 1929 1938))


718 copper 27.61%

$24.50 in pennies



18 wheats (1 older 1935)


619 copper 25.26%

$25 BWR

6 1940s
7 1950s
2 1920
1 1937
1 188_ IH
Usual copper

$25 BWR

6 1940s
7 1950s
2 1920
1 1937
1 188_ IH
Usual copper

40 rolls of pennies, 2000 pennies total sorted

732 (36.6%) brass pennies total, broken down as follows:

146 (7.3%) Canadian dated 1942-1977 (98% copper, 0.5% tin, 1.5% zinc);

560 (28%) Canadian dated 1978-1996 (98% copper, 1.75% tin, 0.25% zinc); and,

26 (1.3%) American (including 2 wheats) dated 1909-1981 (mostly 95% copper, 5% zinc).

$25 - Brink's Box
553 Copper non-wheats (22.1%)
- 396 Nice coppers
- 109 Ugly Abes
- 48 1982's (ACE checked)
12 Wheats - Oldest 1942
3 Canadian copper - '69,'78,'85

JustINaVW wrote:$25 BWR

6 1940s
7 1950s
2 1920
1 1937
1 188_ IH
Usual copper

This one looks like a dup...

JustINaVW wrote:$25 BWR

6 1940s
7 1950s
2 1920
1 1937
1 188_ IH
Usual copper

In order to count this in the stats, please specify the number of coppers (see how others do it). Thanks...

$25 CWRs

Wheats:
13 - 1940s/1950s including two steel (1943 and 1943-S)

Copper non-wheat (18.52%):
440 - Memorial 1959-1981
23 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (2000)

1 - U.S. clad dime

$25 - Brink's Box
556 Copper non-wheats (22.2%)
- 421 Nice coppers
- 77 Ugly Abes
- 58 1982's (ACE checked)
7 Wheats - 1923 and 6 others
3 Canadian copper - '83,'85,'94

$25 CWRs

Wheats:
3 - older (1911, 1935, 1939)
10 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (19.00%):
446 - Memorial 1959-1981
29 - Memorial 1982

2 - Canada (1972, 1994)

$25 CWRs

Wheats:
3 - older (1937-D, 1938-S, 1939)
3 - 1950s

Copper non-wheat (16.12%):
380 - Memorial 1959-1981
23 - Memorial 1982

5 - Canada (1974, 1980x2, 1993, 1999)

1 - Barbados 1 Cent (2003)

2 - Mexico 5 Centavos (1972, 1973)

appologies,, i did not post last month , so here is a bunch.

1 -100.00
07-25--08-01--13



1959 == 15 with 1 "p"
60-67 == 179
68-74 == 440
75-81d== 619
75-81p== 281
82 == 198 with 60 being zinc

wheat == 30 with 1, pre 40 == 19

cdn == 9 with 8, pre 1997

odds == dimes x 2, 98s, 2002 2 cent euro ''zewi'

1 -100.00
08-04--12-13


1959 == 15 with 2 "p"
60-67 == 159
68-74 == 366
75-81d== 524
75-81p== 202
82 == 135 with 35 being zinc

wheat == 90 with 3 , pre 40 == 34, 16, 20d

cdn == 12 with 11, pre 1997, after a long time, a 1967 dove

odds == dime x3,

notes== one lot had a whole roll of wheats, another lot had been sorted, only 7 cu.

1 -100.00
08-13--21--13

1959 == 13 with 0 "p"
60-67 == 168
68-74 == 479
75-81d== 809
75-81p== 278
82 == 188 with 52 being zinc

wheat == 46 with 1 , pre 40 == 20

cdn == 10 with 9, pre 1997== how odd, 2 doves

odds == nothing

note, i got 20.00 one day, 17 rolls were all cu, ie sorted by year. the other rolls were also sorted by year== zinc / lol messes with the averages.

1 -100.00
08-23--26-13


1959 == 18 with 4 "p"
60-67 == 179
68-74 == 440
75-81d== 588
75-81p== 283
82 == 193 with 61 being zinc

wheat == 39 with 4 , pre 40 == 17d, 29, 35s, 37

cdn == 16 with 12, pre 1997

odds == stamped 107, 2002 2c germany, 1998 20c mexico, 2012 2c germany, nickel

1 -100.00
08-27--09-05--13


1959 == 15 with 2 "p"
60-67 == 157
68-74 == 391
75-81d== 546
75-81p== 248
82 == 167 with 41 ,being zinc

wheat == 37 with 2 , pre 40 == 28, 29

cdn == 12 with 9 , pre 1997

odds == 69d stamped with jfk, dimesx 4, 1943, one lot from a bwr box-- over 50% 2013, 2003 s.

1 -100.00
09-09--12=13


1959 == 18 with 3 "p"
60-67 == 191
68-74 == 463
75-81d== 662
75-81p== 230
82 == 207 with 61 ,being zinc

wheat == 28 with 6, pre 40 == 26, 29s, 36, 36, 27, 35

cdn == 8 with 5, pre 1997

odds == dimes x8, 76p OR, 1976 2 pfennig

Box # 17 Loomis
Pennies: 2500

copper 712 28.48%
zinc 1788

Wheats: Total: 30

40's: 12
50's: 11
1914, 17, 20, 33, 35, 36, 39

Canadian: Total: 10
Copper Total: 9

50's:
60's: 2
70's: 4
80 - 96: 3


Box # 18 Loomis
Pennies: 2500

copper 763 30.52%
zinc 1737

Wheats: Total: 17

40's: 7
50's: 10

1975 N.Y. State Stamp

Canadian: Total: 4
Copper Total: 4

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