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Hello Fellow Copper Penny Handsorters:

In February 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 February 26, 2015 11:05 pm forum time and earlier.

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COPPER PENNIES (NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS)
February 2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 13:19 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 3455
J_Dodge - 404
plus1hdcp - 110



INDIAN HEAD PENNIES
February 2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 13:19 ET)



NONE FOUND YET



WHEAT PENNIES
February 2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 13:19 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 124
J_Dodge - 9
plus1hdcp - 1



CANADIAN COPPER PENNIES
February 2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 13:19 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 15
J_Dodge - 9
plus1hdcp - 2



1982 COPPER PENNIES
February 2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 13:19 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 200
J_Dodge - 34
plus1hdcp - 10



PERCENTAGE OF COPPERS NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS
February 2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 13:19 ET)



plus1hdcp - 18.33%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 16.81%
J_Dodge - 16.16%



PERCENTAGE OF CANADIAN COPPERS
February 2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 13:19 ET)



J_Dodge - 0.36%
plus1hdcp - 0.33%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 0.07%



COPPER SEARCHER SCORE
SCORE = (COINS-SEARCHED) * (COPPERs) / 250000
February 2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 13:19 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 295.43
J_Dodge - 4.22
plus1hdcp - 0.27


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2015 FULL YEAR STATISTICS

COPPER PENNIES (NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS)
2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 13:19 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 8201
Sullysullinburg - 5037
J_Dodge - 1106
mrlaufer - 524
Whinstone - 317
plus1hdcp - 110



INDIAN HEAD PENNIES
2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 13:19 ET)



NONE FOUND YET



WHEAT PENNIES
2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 13:19 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 409
Sullysullinburg - 103
J_Dodge - 18
mrlaufer - 13
Whinstone - 6
plus1hdcp - 1



CANADIAN COPPER PENNIES
2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 13:19 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 30
Sullysullinburg - 30
J_Dodge - 22
mrlaufer - 7
Whinstone - 5
plus1hdcp - 2



1982 COPPER PENNIES
2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 13:19 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 456
Sullysullinburg - 421
J_Dodge - 82
Whinstone - 38
plus1hdcp - 10



PERCENTAGE OF COPPERS NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS
2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 13:19 ET)



Sullysullinburg - 25.19%
J_Dodge - 22.12%
Whinstone - 21.13%
mrlaufer - 20.96%
plus1hdcp - 18.33%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 15.68%



PERCENTAGE OF CANADIAN COPPERS
2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 13:19 ET)



J_Dodge - 0.44%
Whinstone - 0.33%
plus1hdcp - 0.33%
mrlaufer - 0.28%
Sullysullinburg - 0.15%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 0.06%



COPPER SEARCHER SCORE
SCORE = (COINS-SEARCHED) * (COPPERs) / 250000
2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 13:19 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 1807.49
Sullysullinburg - 413.60
J_Dodge - 22.92
mrlaufer - 5.44
Whinstone - 1.97
plus1hdcp - 0.27



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2015 FOREIGN LEGION SECTION

3 Bahamas 1c - '84 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), (2) '04 (1 found by TwoAndAHalfCents, 1 found by Sullysullinburg)
1 Domincan Republic 1c - '78 (found by Sullysullinburg)
1 Euro 2c - '00 (found by Sullysullinburg)
1 Malta 1c - '01 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Mexico 5c - '71 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Norway 50 ore - unspecified date (found by Sullysullinburg)
3 Panama 1c - (3) '01 (2 found by TwoAndAHalfCents, 1 found by Sullysullinburg)

NUMBER OF COINS FOUND BY COUNTRY

Bahamas - 3
Domincan Republic - 1
Euro - 1
Malta - 1
Mexico - 1
Norway - 1
Panama - 3

$25 CWRs

Wheats:
1 - older
5 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (17.80%):
429 - Memorial 1959-1981
16 - Memorial 1982

3 - Canada (1975, 1989, 1990)

4 - U.S. clad dimes

Box 34

1/8/15 - 2/7/15

# Copper 403

# Wheat 9

# Canadian 9

# Indian 0

% Copper 16.84

# C82 34

# Z82 14

%C82 70.83

Best roll 24

Worst roll 0 X 12

Box contained a 1932 George V, 1918D Wheat, and 1976 w/ NM stamp


JD

$30 CWRs

Wheats:
12 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (21.03%):
589 - Memorial 1959-1981
42 - Memorial 1982

5 - Canada (1969, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1997)

1 - U.S. clad dime

$79 BWRs and CWRs

Wheats:
1 - older (1936)
23 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (15.37%):
1,135 - Memorial 1959-1981
79 - Memorial 1982

8 - Canada (1979, 1981, 1986, 1988, 1993, 1995, 2001, 2006)

1 - Panama 1 centesimo (2001)

1 - U.S. clad dime

$200 boxes

Pre 1940 wheats- (16)
1913D 1914 1916 1919S 1920 1925 1927 1928 1929 1930 1936x2 1937 1938S 1939x2
Post 1940 wheats- (109) including 1952D MS+ 1955S BU 1958 BUx2


Coppers
Will post when I count them all


Canadiens
Coppers (30) including 1942


Notable finds
1971S Proof
1993 grease filled die
1982 Gold plated
1959 1960D 1962x2 1964 1968 all MS+
2000 2 euro cent
2004 1 cent Bahamas
2001 Un Centesimo De Baloba
1978 Un Centavo Dominican Republic

$25 CWRs

Wheats:
8 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (20.84%):
496 - Memorial 1959-1981
25 - Memorial 1982

2 - Canada (1969, 1982)

1 - U.S. clad dime

$6.00 MWR

101 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper Canadian copper cents
+1 Wheats (51)
+10 Copper 1982
+2 Copper Canadian

114 Keepers 19.00%

$46.50 BWRs and CWRs

Wheats:
12 - older (1935, 1935-D, 1936-D, 1936-S, 1937, 1937-D, 1937-S, 1938, 1938-D, 1938-S, 1939, 1939-S)
3 - steel (1943, 1943-D, 1943-S)
59 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (15.66%):
690 - Memorial 1959-1981
38 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (1998)

1 - U.S. clad dime

not a report , just an , oh yeah.

10$ that were over 50% cu last night.

Sullysullinburg wrote:$200 boxes

Pre 1940 wheats- (16)
1913D 1914 1916 1919S 1920 1925 1927 1928 1929 1930 1936x2 1937 1938S 1939x2
Post 1940 wheats- (109) including 1952D MS+ 1955S BU 1958 BUx2


Coppers
Will post when I count them all


Canadiens
Coppers (30) including 1942


Notable finds
1971S Proof
1993 grease filled die
1982 Gold plated
1959 1960D 1962x2 1964 1968 all MS+
2000 2 euro cent
2004 1 cent Bahamas
2001 Un Centesimo De Baloba
1978 Un Centavo Dominican Republic

Since I didn't get the number of coppers, can't include your coppers in the stats.