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Hello Fellow Copper Penny Handsorters:

In February 2014, 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 2014 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 2014 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 February 01, 2014 mid-night forum time and later.

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$25 Brinks box

Wheats:
13 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (17.00%):
412 - Memorial 1959-1981
13 - Memorial 1982

3 - Canada (1967, 1987, 1991)

$20 CWR.......465 cu memorials

3 wheat ..oldest "49D"

3 Canadian...oldest "95"

1982...weighed....9 zinc...62 cu

also one 25 sumpin from state of Bahrain.....2 U.S. dimes.....1 1942 nazi Reich 5 pfennig

$25 BWRs

Wheats:
10 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (16.12%):
382 - Memorial 1959-1981
21 - Memorial 1982

2 - Canada (1965, 1996)

$25 Box

Wheats:
3 - older (1921-S, 1928-D, 1930)
3 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (16.88%):
400 - Memorial 1959-1981
22 - Memorial 1982

3 - Canada (1967, 1976, 1982)

working on the stack of unsorted boxes...

Box 1 of 4 -$25

Wheats:
8 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (18.40%):
434 - Memorial 1959-1981
26 - Memorial 1982

2 - Canada (1974, 1993)

Box 2 of 4 -$25

Wheats:
1 - older (1937)
5 - 1950s

Copper non-wheat (14.88%):
351 - Memorial 1959-1981
21 - Memorial 1982

3 - Canada (1972, 1974, 2000)

Box 3 of 4 -$25

Wheats:
8 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (17.24%):
408 - Memorial 1959-1981
23 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (1964)

Box 4 of 4 -$25

Wheats:
9 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (16.64%):
399 - Memorial 1959-1981
17 - Memorial 1982

4 - Canada (1950, 1969, 1996, 1997)

$25 CWRs

Wheats:
3 - 1950s

Copper non-wheat (17.68%):
410 - Memorial 1959-1981
32 - Memorial 1982

2 - Canada (1969, 1991)

1 - plastic cent (1996)

$25 box

#18 since start, #2 for 2014

2-3 -- 2-13 2014

# Copper 679

# Wheat 7

# Canadian 14

# Indian 0

% Copper 28%

# C82 70

# Z82 13

C82% 84.33%

1928 Wheat, balance 40-50's

1940 Canadian, balance 1972+

1 2007 PRC 1 Jiao (Steel?)

JD

BOX #5 OF 2014

PRE-82 CU - 454
82 CU - 60
68-74 "S" MINT - 6
WHEATS - 10 (40, 42, 45, 48, 50X2, 50-D, 52, 55-D, 56-D)
CANADIANS - 5 (81X2, 83, 89, 96)
21.24% OF OVERALL COPPERS

OH YEAH... MY FIRST INDIAN!!! 1891 IN BETTER THAN AVERAGE SHAPE

BOX #6 OF 2014

PRE-82 CU - 518
82 CU - 46
68-74 "S" MINT - 5
WHEATS - 17(16-D, 19, 30-D, 35-D, 39, 42, 42-D, 45X2, 45-D, 53-D, 55, 57, 57-D, 58, 58-D X 2)
23.44% OF OVERALL COPPERS

2009 LINCOLNS - 7
CANADIANS - 6 (62, 66, 86, 91, 93, 99)

$25 Customer and bank wrapped rolls

Wheats:
1 - older
11 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (15.52%):
364 - Memorial 1959-1981
24 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (2004)

100.00 penny report
1-30=2-7-14

1959 == 13 with 5 ''p''
1960--6 == 183
1968-74 == 423
1975-81 d== 597
1975-81 p== 286
1982 == 190 with 37 being zinc
wheat == 30 with 3 being pre 40 == 10S, 35, 38
canadian == 15 with 12 being pre 97
odds == 2001 2 C NEDERLAND, DIMES x 6,

100.00 penny report
2-16--24-14


1959 == 18 with 3 ''p''
1960--6 == 182
1968-74 == 449
1975-81 d== 641
1975-81 p== 287
1982 == 196 with 51 being zinc
wheat == 52 with 4 being pre 40 == 1, 20, 20, 18
canadian == 14 with 14 being pre 97
odds == DIMES x 2

OOPS , THAT WHEAT I IS AN 11

100.00 penny report
2-8--12-14


1959 == 22 with 5 ''p''
1960--6 == 180
1968-74 == 426
1975-81 d== 592
1975-81 p== 273
1982 == 167 with 43 being zinc
wheat == 33 with 3 being pre 40 == 39d, 37s, 30s
canadian == 15 with 14 being pre 97
odds == DIMES x 2

Box 3 for 2014, #18 cummulatively (previously had reported #18 in error)

Date 2/21 - 2/25/14

# Copper 723

# Wheat 11

# Canadian 11

# Indian 0

% Copper 29.8%

# C82 63

# Z82 14

C82% 81.81%

Wheats: 1956D x 2, 1918, 1957D, 1944D, 1945, 1949D, 1944, 1958D, 1947D, 1941

JD

BOX (WORTH A BOX ANYWAYS) #7 OF 2014
$15 BWR

PRE-82 CU - 356
82 CU - 40
68-74 "S" MINT - 2 (74X2)
WHEATIES - 9 (40, 41X2, 42, 45, 46, 53D, 55D, 58)
CANADIANS - 5 (70, 79, 80, 86, 91)
2009 LINCOLNS - 2

OVERALL US CU - 27.13%

ALSO FOUND ONE CLAD US DIME AND ONE 2006 G EURO 2 CENT PIECE


$10 OF CWR
PRE-82 CU - 222
82 CU - 23
68-74 "S" MINT - 3 (70, 72, 74)
WHEATIES - 2 (47, 53D)
CANADIANS - 4 (63, 64, 73, 87)
2009 LINCOLNS - 1

OVERALL US CU - 25%

100.00 penny report
2-25-28-14


1959 == 17 with 6 ''p''
1960--6 == 193
1968-74 == 409
1975-81 d== 591
1975-81 p== 274
1982 == 181 with 51 being zinc
wheat == 42 with 1 being pre 40 == 35
canadian == 17 with 15 being pre 97
odds == nothing