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Hello Fellow Copper Penny Handsorters:

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

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$80 BWRs and CWRs

Wheats:
17 - copper 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (16.38%):
1,234 - Memorial 1959-1981
76 - Memorial 1982

5 - Canada (1980, 1981, 1991, 1999, 2003)
1 - France 1 euro cent (2001)
1 - Germany 1 pfennig (1975)

3 - U.S. clad dimes

Box 1 of 3

Wheats:
5 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (16.04%):
378 - Memorial 1959-1981
23 - Memorial 1982

2 - Canada (1957, 1974)
1 - France 2 euro cent (2008)

Box 2 of 3

Wheats:
8 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (16.52%)
389 - Memorial 1959-1981
24 - Memorial 1982

3 - Canada (1962, 1978, 1982)

Box 3 of 3

Wheats:
1 - older (1937)
16 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (17.92%)
426 - Memorial 1959-1981
22 - Memorial 1982

3 - Canada (1976, 1988 x2)

$52 BWRs and CWRs

Wheats:
1 - older (1934)
19 - copper 1940s/1950s
1 - steel (1943)

Copper non-wheat (16.02%):
791 - Memorial 1959-1981
42 - Memorial 1982

2 - Canada (1988, 2003)
1 - Bahamas 1 cent (1995)
1 - France 2 euro cent (2012)
1 - Ireland 2 euro cent (2004)
1 - Spain 2 euro cent (2001)
1 - Hong Kong 10 cents (1998)
1 - Taiwan 1 yuan (1981)

3 - U.S. clad dimes

I did not include the $23 in new 2014 rolls of pennies I also received from my credit union. Those were exchanged at a couple of banks for other rolls which are included in the totals above.

BOX 28 OF 2014

PRE-82 CU - 405
82 CU - 38
WHEATIES - 3 (18, 43, 52D)
"S" MINT - 3 (70X2, 71)
TOTAL KEEPER US CU % - 17.96%

CANUCKS - 5 (80, 82, 98X2, 04)
2009 LINCOLNS - 6

$5.00 MWR

89 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper Canadian copper cents
+2 Wheats (55D, 56D)
+14 Copper 1982
+1 Copper Canadian (92)

106 Keepers 21.20%

Not much but it's another 100 coppers added to the stack. Always remember September 11, 2001

$62 BWRs and CWRs

Wheats:
13 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (17.81%):
1,031 - Memorial 1959-1981
73 - Memorial 1982

5 - Canada (1965, 1969, 1976, 1998, 2001)
1 - Taiwan 1 Yuan (1981)

3 - U.S. clad dimes

I picked up a box of pennies - all shiny new 2014's. So I took the box to another bank and exchanged it for a batch of customer wrapped rolls. it was a pretty average batch but it sure beats the box of pure zinc.

$25 CWRs

Wheats:
10 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (16.40%):
396 - Memorial 1959-1981
14 - Memorial 1982

4 - Canada (1962, 1974, 1980, 1981)

Box 1 of 2

Wheats:
10 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (13.88%):
328 - Memorial 1959-1981
19 - Memorial 1982

2 - Canada (1990, 2003)
1 - Barbados 1 cent (1990)

Box 2 of 2

Wheats:
1 - older (1939)
7 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (16.08%):
380 - Memorial 1959-1981
22 - Memorial 1982

2 - Canada (1964, 1980)

$25 CWRs

Wheats:
5 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (17.32%):
414 - Memorial 1959-1981
19 - Memorial 1982

2 - Canada (1985, 2002)

3 - U.S. clad dimes

BOX 29 OF 2014

PRE-82 CU - 431
82 CU - 38
WHEATIES - 3 (42, 45, 58)
"S" MINT - 3 (70X2, 74)
TOTAL US CU KEEPER % - 19.00%

CANUCKS - 4 (73, 81, 82, 92)
2009 LINCOLNS - 3

***BONUS*** - A 2000 WIDE "AM"

$2.00

1 wheat 1954
36 coppers 18%

162 Zinc
also $2.00 bill in change

$47.50 BWRs and CWRs

Wheats:
2 - older (1919, 1939)
10 - copper 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (16.95%):
764 - Memorial 1959-1981
41 - Memorial 1982

9 - Canada (1967, 1976, 1979, 1981, 1985 x2, 1994, 2001, 2007)
1 - Bahamas 1 cent (1998)

The totals above do not include an additional $9 in rolls of 2014's that I also picked up.