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Hello Fellow Copper Penny Handsorters:

In January 2015, 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 2015 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 2015 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 January 24, 2015 1:41 am forum time and earlier.

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COPPER PENNIES (NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS)
January 2015 FULL LIST (as of 2/15/15 15:34 ET)



Sullysullinburg - 5037
TwoAndAHalfCents - 4746
J_Dodge - 702
mrlaufer - 524
Whinstone - 317



INDIAN HEAD PENNIES
January 2015 FULL LIST (as of 2/15/15 15:34 ET)



NONE FOUND YET



WHEAT PENNIES
January 2015 FULL LIST (as of 2/15/15 15:34 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 285
Sullysullinburg - 103
mrlaufer - 13
J_Dodge - 9
Whinstone - 6



CANADIAN COPPER PENNIES
January 2015 FULL LIST (as of 2/15/15 15:34 ET)



Sullysullinburg - 30
TwoAndAHalfCents - 15
J_Dodge - 13
mrlaufer - 7
Whinstone - 5



1982 COPPER PENNIES
January 2015 FULL LIST (as of 2/15/15 15:34 ET)



Sullysullinburg - 421
TwoAndAHalfCents - 256
J_Dodge - 48
Whinstone - 38



PERCENTAGE OF COPPERS NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS
January 2015 FULL LIST (as of 2/15/15 15:34 ET)



J_Dodge - 28.08%
Sullysullinburg - 25.19%
Whinstone - 21.13%
mrlaufer - 20.96%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 14.95%



PERCENTAGE OF CANADIAN COPPERS
January 2015 FULL LIST (as of 2/15/15 15:34 ET)



J_Dodge - 0.52%
Whinstone - 0.33%
mrlaufer - 0.28%
Sullysullinburg - 0.15%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 0.05%



COPPER SEARCHER SCORE
SCORE = (COINS-SEARCHED) * (COPPERs) / 250000
January 2015 FULL LIST (as of 2/15/15 15:34 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 640.84
Sullysullinburg - 413.60
J_Dodge - 7.24
mrlaufer - 5.44
Whinstone - 1.97


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2015 FULL YEAR STATISTICS

COPPER PENNIES (NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS)
2015 FULL LIST (as of 2/15/15 15:34 ET)



Sullysullinburg - 5037
TwoAndAHalfCents - 4746
J_Dodge - 702
mrlaufer - 524
Whinstone - 317



INDIAN HEAD PENNIES
2015 FULL LIST (as of 2/15/15 15:34 ET)



NONE FOUND YET



WHEAT PENNIES
2015 FULL LIST (as of 2/15/15 15:34 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 285
Sullysullinburg - 103
mrlaufer - 13
J_Dodge - 9
Whinstone - 6



CANADIAN COPPER PENNIES
2015 FULL LIST (as of 2/15/15 15:34 ET)



Sullysullinburg - 30
TwoAndAHalfCents - 15
J_Dodge - 13
mrlaufer - 7
Whinstone - 5



1982 COPPER PENNIES
2015 FULL LIST (as of 2/15/15 15:34 ET)



Sullysullinburg - 421
TwoAndAHalfCents - 256
J_Dodge - 48
Whinstone - 38



PERCENTAGE OF COPPERS NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS
2015 FULL LIST (as of 2/15/15 15:34 ET)



J_Dodge - 28.08%
Sullysullinburg - 25.19%
Whinstone - 21.13%
mrlaufer - 20.96%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 14.95%



PERCENTAGE OF CANADIAN COPPERS
2015 FULL LIST (as of 2/15/15 15:34 ET)



J_Dodge - 0.52%
Whinstone - 0.33%
mrlaufer - 0.28%
Sullysullinburg - 0.15%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 0.05%



COPPER SEARCHER SCORE
SCORE = (COINS-SEARCHED) * (COPPERs) / 250000
2015 FULL LIST (as of 2/15/15 15:34 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 640.84
Sullysullinburg - 413.60
J_Dodge - 7.24
mrlaufer - 5.44
Whinstone - 1.97



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2015 FOREIGN LEGION SECTION

2 Bahamas 1c - '84 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '04 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Malta 1c - '01 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Mexico 5c - '71 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Norway 50 ore - unspecified date (found by Sullysullinburg)
1 Panama 1c - '01 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)

NUMBER OF COINS FOUND BY COUNTRY

Bahamas - 2
Malta - 1
Mexico - 1
Norway - 1
Panama - 1

$80 BWRs and CWRs

Wheats:
2 - older (1919-S, 1937)
20 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (15.66%):
1,176 - Memorial 1959-1981
77 - Memorial 1982

6 - Canada (1962, 1978, 1981, 1985 x2, 1993)

1 - Mexico 5 centavos (1971)

1 - Panama 1 centesimo (2001)

7 - U.S. clad dimes

$25 Box

Wheats:
17 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (13.24%):
320 - Memorial 1959-1981
11 - Memorial 1982

$200 boxes


Wheats pre 1940- (13) 1910 1918 1919 1929x2 1930 1935x2 1936 1938x2 1939x2
Wheats post 1940- (90)


Copper 1959-1981 4616
Copper 1982 421
Non copper 1982 120
Total copper 5037
% of copper 25.185

Copper Canadians 30
Non copper Canadians 5


Notable finds
1988-S Proof
1973-D Kissing Kennedy
1989 four leaf clover stamp
1996 copper coating error
1975 maybe double struck reverse
50 öre

12-19 - 12-30-14 Box 17, last one of 2014

# Copper 702

# Wheat 9

# Canadian 13

# Indian 0

% Copper 28.96

# C82 48

# Z82 13

%C82 78.68


Wheat 1937, 1945 x 2, 1951D, 1955D, 1956D x 2 1957D, 1958D

Best roll 20, worst roll 9 x 5


This does not include 6-7 boxes I had previously searched - I went back thru them looking copper 82's. Those 82's I
found I used to purchase silver - about $8.50 in cents, every cent counts.

JD

$25 Box

Wheats:
7 - 1950s

Copper non-wheat (15.60%):
368 - Memorial 1959-1981
22 - Memorial 1982

2 - Canada (1945 x2)

$30 BWRs and CWRs

Wheats:
10 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (15.03%):
426 - Memorial 1959-1981
25 - Memorial 1982

5 - Canada (1982, 1991, 2001, 2002 x2)

1 - Malta 1 cent (2001)

2 - U.S. clad dimes

1 - state stamped cent 'IN' (too bad it was a zinc 2002)

Tailed off at the end of 2014, I quit saving ALL 1982's. I've read in some places that selling is hard enough, with the 82's it just makes it harder. Been going through the hoard and rolling the 59-81 and recycling the 82's. I currently have 5 coffee cans filled with rolls, $48 face each with more left to roll. Now...

1st box of 2015:

PRE 1982 CU - 524
WHEATIES - 13 (34-D, 44X2, 48, 48-D, 53-D, 54-DX2, 56, 57-DX2, 58-DX2)
68-74 "S" MINT - 2 (68, 74)

TOTAL US CU KEEPER % - 21.56%

NORTH OF THE BORDER - 7 (64, 71, 75, 76, 80, 83, 92)
2009 "KEEPER" LINCOLNS - 2

It's good to be back sorting. I've missed going through a box of pennies and listening to music while chilling after a week of work.

$32.50 BWRs and CWRs

Wheats: 200 total - mostly S mint marks
5 - older (1924, 1926-D, 1929 x2, 1929-D)
31 - steel (1943 x11, 1943-D x6 1943-S x14)
38 - 1940s (1940-S, 1941-S x2, 1944, 1944-S x12, 1945-S x6, 1946-S x6, 1947-S x4, 1948-S, 1949-D, 1949-S x4)
126 - 1950s (1950-S x9, 1951, 1951-S x34, 1952-D, 1952-S x40, 1953-S x38, 1954-S x2, 1957-D)

Copper non-wheat (14.49%):
453 - Memorial 1959-1981
18 - Memorial 1982

3 - Canada (1967, 1991, 1999)

3 - U.S. clad dimes

]$15 CWR....317 Cu memorials......1982's....20 Zinc....38 Cu....5 Canadian....oldest "61".....6 wheats...oldest "19"

$25 BWRs and CWRs

Wheats:
1 - older (1929)
9 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (18.16%):
433 - Memorial 1959-1981
21 - Memorial 1982

2 - Canada (1961, 1983)

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Box 1 of 3

Wheats:
1 - older (1910)
5 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (11.56%)
268 - Memorial 1959-1981
21 - Memorial 1982

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Box 2 of 3

Wheats:
4 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (13.44%)
320 - Memorial 1959-1981
16 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (1964)

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Box 3 of 3
Wheats:
1 - older (1919)
4 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (16.96%)
404 - Memorial 1959-1981
20 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (2011)

2 - Bahamas 1 cent (1984, 2004)

$25 BWRs and CWRs

Wheats:
4 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (13.88%):
322 - Memorial 1959-1981
25 - Memorial 1982

1 - U.S. clad dime