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Hello Fellow Copper Penny Handsorters:

In March 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 March 28, 2015 6:53 am forum time and earlier.

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COPPER PENNIES (NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS)
March 2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 15:44 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 3110
PennysaverCP - 728
Hirbonzig - 684
mrlaufer - 473
plus1hdcp - 327
J_Dodge - 215



INDIAN HEAD PENNIES
March 2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 15:44 ET)



NONE FOUND YET



WHEAT PENNIES
March 2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 15:44 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 42
mrlaufer - 9
Hirbonzig - 8
J_Dodge - 8
plus1hdcp - 3
PennysaverCP - 2



CANADIAN COPPER PENNIES
March 2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 15:44 ET)



Hirbonzig - 14
TwoAndAHalfCents - 11
mrlaufer - 10
PennysaverCP - 9
J_Dodge - 6
plus1hdcp - 3



1982 COPPER PENNIES
March 2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 15:44 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 169
plus1hdcp - 39
J_Dodge - 21



PERCENTAGE OF COPPERS NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS
March 2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 15:44 ET)



PennysaverCP - 29.12%
Hirbonzig - 27.36%
plus1hdcp - 21.80%
mrlaufer - 18.92%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 15.40%
J_Dodge - 8.60%



PERCENTAGE OF CANADIAN COPPERS
March 2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 15:44 ET)



Hirbonzig - 0.56%
mrlaufer - 0.40%
PennysaverCP - 0.36%
J_Dodge - 0.24%
plus1hdcp - 0.20%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 0.05%



COPPER SEARCHER SCORE
SCORE = (COINS-SEARCHED) * (COPPERs) / 250000
March 2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 15:44 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 255.57
PennysaverCP - 7.39
Hirbonzig - 7.06
mrlaufer - 4.92
J_Dodge - 2.29
plus1hdcp - 2.00


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2015 FULL YEAR STATISTICS

COPPER PENNIES (NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS)
2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 15:44 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 11311
Sullysullinburg - 5037
J_Dodge - 1321
mrlaufer - 997
PennysaverCP - 728
Hirbonzig - 684
plus1hdcp - 437
Whinstone - 317



INDIAN HEAD PENNIES
2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 15:44 ET)



NONE FOUND YET



WHEAT PENNIES
2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 15:44 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 451
Sullysullinburg - 103
J_Dodge - 26
mrlaufer - 22
Hirbonzig - 8
Whinstone - 6
plus1hdcp - 4
PennysaverCP - 2



CANADIAN COPPER PENNIES
2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 15:44 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 41
Sullysullinburg - 30
J_Dodge - 28
mrlaufer - 17
Hirbonzig - 14
PennysaverCP - 9
Whinstone - 5
plus1hdcp - 5



1982 COPPER PENNIES
2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 15:44 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 625
Sullysullinburg - 421
J_Dodge - 103
plus1hdcp - 49
Whinstone - 38



PERCENTAGE OF COPPERS NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS
2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 15:44 ET)



PennysaverCP - 29.12%
Hirbonzig - 27.36%
Sullysullinburg - 25.19%
Whinstone - 21.13%
plus1hdcp - 20.81%
mrlaufer - 19.94%
J_Dodge - 17.61%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 15.60%



PERCENTAGE OF CANADIAN COPPERS
2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 15:44 ET)



Hirbonzig - 0.56%
J_Dodge - 0.37%
PennysaverCP - 0.36%
mrlaufer - 0.34%
Whinstone - 0.33%
plus1hdcp - 0.24%
Sullysullinburg - 0.15%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 0.06%



COPPER SEARCHER SCORE
SCORE = (COINS-SEARCHED) * (COPPERs) / 250000
2015 FULL LIST (as of 8/2/15 15:44 ET)



TwoAndAHalfCents - 3422.87
Sullysullinburg - 413.60
J_Dodge - 41.25
mrlaufer - 20.72
PennysaverCP - 7.39
Hirbonzig - 7.06
plus1hdcp - 3.75
Whinstone - 1.97



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2015 FOREIGN LEGION SECTION

1 Austria 2c Euro - '04 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
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 France 2c Euro - '01 (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)
3 Panama 1c - (3) '01 (2 found by TwoAndAHalfCents, 1 found by Sullysullinburg)
1 Switzerland 10 rappen - '65 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)

NUMBER OF COINS FOUND BY COUNTRY

Austria - 1
Bahamas - 3
Domincan Republic - 1
Euro - 1
France - 1
Malta - 1
Mexico - 1
Norway - 1
Panama - 3
Switzerland - 1

$25 Box

Wheats:
12 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (15.36%):
354 - Memorial 1959-1981
30 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (1962)

$25.00 box

728 US coppers
9 Canadian coppers
2 wheats
29.56% keepers

$42 BWRs and CWRs

Wheats:
1 - older (1928-S)
8 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (16.33%):
652 - Memorial 1959-1981
34 - Memorial 1982

3 - Canada (1966, 1982, 2005)

1 - France 2 euro cent (2001)

1 - U.S. clad dime

This batch brings the total sorted to one million

Congrats on 1 Million sorted!!

One $25 Box
684 coppers--27.3%
8 wheats--all 40's and 50's
14 Canadian coppers

TwoAndAHalfCents wrote:$42 BWRs and CWRs

This batch brings the total sorted to one million

Can you imagine if you did that many pennies without washing your hands? I wonder what they'd look like...there are probably some funny photos out there.

The second million is off to a great start.

$40 BWRs and CWRs

Wheats:
6 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (28.03%):
1,067 - Memorial 1959-1981
54 - Memorial 1982

5 - Canada (1960, 1964, 1977, 1981, 2003)

1 - Canada 10 cents (1980)

1 - Switzerland 10 rappen (1965)

$5.00 MWR

90 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper Canadian copper cents
+3 Wheats (38, 51D, 57D)
+9 Copper 1982
+1 Copper Canadian (1961)

103 Keepers 20.60%

$25 box

Wheats:
9 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (14.24%):
337 - Memorial 1959-1981
19 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (1981)

Mar 2- 13, 2015 Box # 34

# Copper 215

# Wheat 8

# Canadian 6

# Indian 0

% Copper 9.16%

# C82 21

# Z82 26

%C82 44.68%


Best roll 17, Worst roll 0x6


JD

$5.00 CWR

158 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper Canadian copper cents
+0 Wheats ()
+22 Copper 1982
+1 Copper Canadian (1985)

181 Keepers 36.20%

No wheats to be found but a good CU percentage

$40 BWRs and CWRs

Wheats:
6 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (14.08%):
531 - Memorial 1959-1981
32 - Memorial 1982

6 - Canada (1965, 1984, 1986, 2001, 2005, 2010)

1 - Austria 2 euro cent (2004)

6 - U.S. clad dimes

$25 BOX

PRE-82 CU - 473
WHEATIES - 9 (19, 39, 41, 44, 44D, 49, 50D, 52, 57D)
68-74 "S" MINT - 1 (74)
CANADIAN - 11 (40, 63, 64, 76, 78, 80, 85, 89, 93, 95, 02)
2009 ZINCOLNS - 2

$5.00 CWR

40 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper Canadian copper cents
+0 Wheats ()
+8 Copper 1982
+1 Copper Canadian ()

49 Keepers 9.80%