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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.

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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

I'll get the month started

$10.00 MWR

230 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper canadian copper cents
+1 Wheats (56D)
+40 Copper 1982
+1 Copper Canadian (65)

Sorted another $5.00 MWR

96 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper canadian copper cents
+2 Wheats (53, 56D)
+21 Copper 1982
+1 Copper Canadian (63)

$5.00 MWR

87 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper canadian copper cents
+3 Wheats (53D, 54D, 58D)
+12 Copper 1982
+0 Copper Canadian ()

$25 loomis box loomis box from early 2012, one left and I'm done, maybe.

716 LMC
6 copper Canadians
13 wheats
.294

Box # 23 Loomis
Pennies: 2500

copper 714 28.56%
zinc 1786

Wheats: Total: 12

40's: 3
50's: 7

1919. 37d
2 indians: 1881, 1907
1981 N.J. State Stamp

Canadian: Total: 3
Copper Total: 2

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

$10.00 CWR

213 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper canadian copper cents
+0 Wheats ()
+28 Copper 1982
+0 Copper Canadian ()

No wheat's in the rolls but a couple of hundred more for the stack

$25 Box

Wheats:
7 - older (1929-S, 1935-S x2, 1936 x2, 1937-S, 1939-S)
17 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (16.28%):
384 - Memorial 1959-1981
23 - Memorial 1982

4 - Canada (1952, 1971, 1990, 2008)

1- Panama 1 cent (2001)

Box # 24 Loomis
Pennies: 2500

copper 663 26.52%
zinc 1837

Wheats: Total: 13

40's: 4
50's: 7

1923, 30d

Canadian: Total: 4
Copper Total: 4

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

1938
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Box # 25 Loomis
Pennies: 2500

copper 687 27.48%
zinc 1813

Wheats: Total: 10

40's: 3
50's: 6

1939

Canadian: Total: 6
Copper Total: 5

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

$5.00 MWR

97 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper canadian copper cents
+3 Wheats (44D, 51D, 55D)
+14 Copper 1982
+0 Copper Canadian ()

Additional find - 2000 Wide AM

2nd $5.00 MWR of the night

105 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper canadian copper cents
+2 Wheats (44S, 52D)
+13 Copper 1982
+0 Copper Canadian ()

$25 Bank wrapped rolls

Wheats:
8 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (18.12%):
428 - Memorial 1959-1981
25 - Memorial 1982

2 - Canada (1979, 2000)

$10.00 MWR

192 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper canadian copper cents
+1 Wheats (46)
+28 Copper 1982
+0 Copper Canadian ()

$25 Bank wrapped rolls

Wheats:
12 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (16.28%):
390 - Memorial 1959-1981
17 - Memorial 1982

3 - Canada (1977, 1981, 1993)

$5.00 MWR

102 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper canadian copper cents
+2 Wheats (52D, 55D)
+17 Copper 1982
+1 Copper Canadian (62)

Bag # 43
Pennies: 5000

copper 1385 27.70%
zinc 3615

Wheats: Total: 9
40's: 1
50'S: 8

Canadian Total: 10
Copper Total 10

50'S:
60'S: 2
70's: 2
80-96: 5
1947

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Bag # 44
Pennies: 5000

copper 1328 26.56%
zinc 3672

Wheats: Total: 25
40's: 14
50'S: 11

Canadian Total: 15
Copper Total 15

50'S:
60'S: 1 Rock Dove
70's: 4
80-96: 10

Bag # 45
Pennies: 5000

copper 1368 27.36%
zinc 3632

Wheats: Total: 11
40's: 6
50'S: 5

Canadian Total: 9
Copper Total 9

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

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Bag # 46
Pennies: 5000

copper 1368 27.36%
zinc 3632

Wheats: Total: 18
40's: 4
50'S: 14

Canadian Total: 12
Copper Total 10

50'S:
60'S: 2
70's: 1
80-96: 7

Bag # 47
Pennies: 5000

copper 1143 22.86%
zinc 3857

Wheats: Total: 15
40's: 5
50'S: 10

Canadian Total: 10
Copper Total 10

50'S: 1
60'S: 0
70's: 2
80-96: 7

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Box # 26 Loomis
Pennies: 2500

copper 642 25.68%
zinc 1858

Wheats: Total: 10

40's: 2
50's: 8

1904 IH

Canadian: Total: 4
Copper Total: 4

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

$25.00 Box 13

504 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper canadian copper cents
+9 Wheats (44, 44D, 52D, 54S, 56DX3, 57, 58D)
+62 Copper 1982
+2 Copper Canadian (59, 89)

$25 Brinks box

Wheats:
1 - older (1919-S)
7 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (14.60%):
352 - Memorial 1959-1981
13 - Memorial 1982

6 - Canada (1970, 1980, 1982 x2, 2004, 2011)

$10.00 MWR

199 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper canadian copper cents
+5 Wheats (49, 52D, 54D, 55, 57D)
+20 Copper 1982
+1 Copper Canadian (69)

Box #1 - all 2013-D

Box #2 - $25 Brinks box

Wheats:
1 - older (1917)
8 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (15.72%):
372 - Memorial 1959-1981
21 - Memorial 1982

6 - Canada (1975, 1980, 1981, 1988, 1998, 2004)

4 - U.S. clad dimes

$25.00 Box 14

426 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper canadian copper cents
+5 Wheats (34, 46, 51D, 52D, 57)
+60 Copper 1982
+2 Copper Canadian (70, 76)

$20 in pennies



12 wheats nothing older


621 coppers 31.1%


4 Canadian

Box # 27 Loomis
Pennies: 2500

copper 698 27.92%
zinc 1802

Wheats: Total: 9

40's: 1
50's: 8



Canadian: Total: 9
Copper Total: 9

50's:
60's: 2 1 Rock Dove
70's: 4
80 - 96: 3