Realcent.org

Hello Fellow Copper Penny Handsorters:

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

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

7-25 - 7-31-14 Box 26, #11 YTD

# Copper 673

# Wheat 15

# Canadian 11

# Indian 0

% Copper 27.96%

# C82 52

# Z82 13

%C82 80%


Wheat 1947D x 2, 1940, 1944, 1934, 1944D, 1958D, 1957D x 3, 1950D, 1956D x 2, 1945D, 1940D

Best roll 19 x 3
Worst roll 7 x 2

$25 Box (1 of 2)

Wheats:
1 - older (1927)
7 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (14.04%):
331 - Memorial 1959-1981
20 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (1990)

$25 Box (2 of 2)

Wheats:
6 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (16.36%):
383 - Memorial 1959-1981
26 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (1965)

Two Sorts this weekend

$5.00 MWR

110 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper Canadian copper cents
+3 Wheats (42, 44 x 2)
+6 Copper 1982
+1 Copper Canadian (1987)

120 Keepers 24.00%

$5.00 CWR

132 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper Canadian copper cents
+2 Wheats (51S, 58)
+20 Copper 1982
+0 Copper Canadian ()

154 Keepers 30.80%

$17 CWRs

Wheats:
2 - older (1920-S, 1935)
4 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (15.47%):
254 - Memorial 1959-1981
9 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (1992)
1 - Great Britain 1 penny (1988)
1 - Germany 1 pfennig (1978)
1 - Germany 2 pfennig (1969)

1 - U.S. clad dime

BOX 23 OF 2014

PRE-82 CU - 474
82 CU - 65
WHEATIES - 21 (28, 37, 41X2, 42, 43, 44X2, 46X2, 48X2, 49S, 50D, 51, 52D, 53D, 54S, 55D, 56D, 58D)
68-74 "S" MINT - 7 (69, 71, 72, 74X4)

TOTAL KEEPER % OF US CU - 22.68%

CANUCKS - 3 (52, 69, 08)
2009 LINCOLNS - 7

$25 Box

Wheats:
1 - older (1916)
4 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (16.64%):
390 - Memorial 1959-1981
26 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (1984)

$5.00 MWR

85 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper Canadian copper cents
+0 Wheats ()
+7 Copper 1982
+0 Copper Canadian ()

92 Keepers 18.40%

8-4 - 8-7-14 Box 27, #12 YTD


# Copper 745

# Wheat 10

# Canadian 5

# Indian 0

% Copper 30.4%

# C82 51

# Z82 27

%C82 65.38%

Wheat 1934, 1946D, 1940, 1952D x 2, 1944, 1937D, 1944D, 1954D, 1935

Best roll 22 x 2, Worst roll 7

1 clad dime

JD

BOX 24 OF 2014

PRE-82 CU - 437
82 CU - 50
WHEATIES - 11 (39, 47D, 50X2, 53S, 54D, 56DX2, 57DX2, 58D)
68-74 "S" MINT - 1 (74)

TOTAL US KEEPER % - 20%

CANUCKS - 3 (73, 74, 78)
2009 LINCOLNS - 2

Box 1 of 3
Box of shiny new 2014-D pennies

Box 2 of 3
Box of shiny new 2014-D pennies

Box 3 of 3
Wheats:
10 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (16.72%):
399 - Memorial 1959-1981
19 - Memorial 1982

5 - Canada (1988, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000)

$2.50 bank wrapped rolls
- all shiny new 2013-D pennies


$65.50 CWRs

Wheats:
1 - older (1929)
1 - date unreadable
1 - steel (1943-S)
10 - copper 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (15.92%):
981 - Memorial 1959-1981
62 - Memorial 1982

3 - Canada (1961, 1970, 2005)
1 - New Zealand 10 cents (2006)

$10 CWRs

Wheats:
4 - older (1916-D, 1920, 1935, 1939)
98 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (37.10%):
361 - Memorial 1959-1981
10 - Memorial 1982

20 - Canada (1940, 1943, 1956, 1962 x2, 1964, 1965 x2, 1966 x2, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1977, 1979, 1980 x3, 1981, 2001)

7 - U.S. clad dimes (6 shiny ones in the second roll, the other was a dirty one that someone might mistake for a penny)

It's batches like this that make up for all of those low percentage boxes.

[Edited to add the dimes]

BOX 25 PF 2014

PRE-82 CU - 468
82 CU - 53
WHEATIES - 10 (29, 45, 48, 52, 52D, 53DX2, 56X2, 57D)
68-74 "S" MINT - 3 (71, 74X2)
TOTAL US CU KEEPER % - 21.36%

CANUCKS - 6 (74, 77, 81X2, 94, 02)
2009 LINCOLNS - 5

Got a 1949-S Lincoln in change today.

$50 CWRs

Wheats:
8 - copper 1940s/1950s
2 - steel (1943 x2)

Copper non-wheat (15.44%):
726 - Memorial 1959-1981
46 - Memorial 1982

2 - Canada (1967, 2008)
1 - Great Britain 1 penny (2010)
1 - France 1 euro cent (2004)
1 - U.S. clad dime
1 - token marked "J & K"
----------

$5 Brinks rolls

Wheats
1 - older (1939)

Copper non-wheat (15.80%)
75 - Memorial 1959-1981
4 - Memorial 1982
----------

$25 Box

Wheats
1 - older (1919)
6 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (14.64%):
341 - Memorial 1959-1981
25 - Memorial 1982

4 - Canada (1967, 1980, 2004, 2005))

BOX 26 OF 2014

PRE-82 CU - 511
82 CU - 54
WHEATIES - 11 (13, 41X2, 42D, 45, 46, 50S, 51D, 52, 55D, 58)
68-74 "S" MINT - 1 (74)
TOTAL KEEPER US CU % = 23.08%

CANUCKS - 6 (72, 80, 84, 87, 96, 00)
2009 LINCOLNS - 6

8-19 - 8-29-14 Box 29, #13 YTD

# Copper 756

# Wheat 6

# Canadian 12

# Indian 0

% Copper 30.96%

# C82 86

# Z82 22

%C82 79.62%

Wheat 1946, 1953D, 1951D x 2, 1952S, 1948

Best roll 25, Worst roll 8

51 rolls in box (pennys in extra roll not included in this report)

JD

$15.00 MWR

526 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper Canadian copper cents
+8 Wheats (16, 29S, 40, 44, 52D, 55, 57D, 58D)
+33 Copper 1982
+1 Copper Canadian (82)

568 Keepers 37.87%

BOX 27 OF 2014

PRE-82 CU - 532
82 CU - 48
WHEATIES - 9 (40, 41, 45, 49, 53, 56DX2, 58DX2)
"S" MINT - 1 (74)
TOTAL KEEPER US CU % = 23.6%

CANUCKS - 11 (61, 65, 69X2, 72, 74, 82, 86X2, 96, 97)
2009 LINCOLNS - 11

***EXTRA*** - (2) 1996 JAMAICAN DOLLAR COINS

Sadly I have no more pennies to sort. .