In December 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 December 30, 2015 12:49 am forum time and earlier.
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COPPER PENNIES (NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS)
December 2015 FULL LIST (as of 1/4/16 14:23 ET)
TwoAndAHalfCents - 1089
everything - 668
INDIAN HEAD PENNIES
December 2015 FULL LIST (as of 1/4/16 14:23 ET)
NONE REPORTED
WHEAT PENNIES
December 2015 FULL LIST (as of 1/4/16 14:23 ET)
TwoAndAHalfCents - 27
everything - 11
CANADIAN COPPER PENNIES
December 2015 FULL LIST (as of 1/4/16 14:23 ET)
TwoAndAHalfCents - 6
everything - 5
1982 COPPER PENNIES
December 2015 FULL LIST (as of 1/4/16 14:23 ET)
TwoAndAHalfCents - 75
PERCENTAGE OF COPPERS NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS
December 2015 FULL LIST (as of 1/4/16 14:23 ET)
everything - 26.72%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 14.52%
PERCENTAGE OF CANADIAN COPPERS
December 2015 FULL LIST (as of 1/4/16 14:23 ET)
everything - 0.20%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 0.08%
COPPER SEARCHER SCORE
SCORE = (COINS-SEARCHED) * (COPPERs) / 250000
December 2015 FULL LIST (as of 1/4/16 14:23 ET)
TwoAndAHalfCents - 33.66
everything - 6.84
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2015 FULL YEAR STATISTICS
COPPER PENNIES (NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS)
2015 FULL LIST (as of 1/4/16 14:23 ET)
TwoAndAHalfCents - 43490
cwgii - 17929
Country - 13518
Hirbonzig - 5836
Sullysullinburg - 5037
J_Dodge - 4143
PennysaverCP - 3636
mrlaufer - 2633
Whinstone - 2296
everything - 1375
plus1hdcp - 750
TheJonasCollegeFund - 616
INDIAN HEAD PENNIES
2015 FULL LIST (as of 1/4/16 14:23 ET)
cwgii - 2
PennysaverCP - 1
WHEAT PENNIES
2015 FULL LIST (as of 1/4/16 14:23 ET)
TwoAndAHalfCents - 1255
cwgii - 422
Country - 382
Sullysullinburg - 103
Hirbonzig - 100
PennysaverCP - 60
J_Dodge - 55
Whinstone - 44
mrlaufer - 43
everything - 25
TheJonasCollegeFund - 16
plus1hdcp - 6
CANADIAN COPPER PENNIES
2015 FULL LIST (as of 1/4/16 14:23 ET)
TwoAndAHalfCents - 170
PennysaverCP - 154
cwgii - 103
Country - 76
Hirbonzig - 76
J_Dodge - 69
mrlaufer - 33
Sullysullinburg - 30
Whinstone - 15
everything - 12
plus1hdcp - 5
TheJonasCollegeFund - 3
1982 COPPER PENNIES
2015 FULL LIST (as of 1/4/16 14:23 ET)
TwoAndAHalfCents - 2235
Country - 1149
cwgii - 1010
Sullysullinburg - 421
J_Dodge - 368
Whinstone - 289
plus1hdcp - 85
PERCENTAGE OF COPPERS NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS
2015 FULL LIST (as of 1/4/16 14:23 ET)
everything - 27.50%
PennysaverCP - 25.61%
Sullysullinburg - 25.19%
TheJonasCollegeFund - 24.64%
Hirbonzig - 24.32%
J_Dodge - 23.67%
Country - 21.63%
Whinstone - 20.87%
plus1hdcp - 20.83%
mrlaufer - 17.55%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 16.25%
cwgii - 16.30%
PERCENTAGE OF CANADIAN COPPERS
2015 FULL LIST (as of 1/4/16 14:23 ET)
PennysaverCP - 1.08%
J_Dodge - 0.39%
Hirbonzig - 0.32%
everything - 0.24%
mrlaufer - 0.22%
Sullysullinburg - 0.15%
plus1hdcp - 0.14%
Whinstone - 0.14%
Country - 0.12%
TheJonasCollegeFund - 0.12%
cwgii - 0.09%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 0.06%
COPPER SEARCHER SCORE
SCORE = (COINS-SEARCHED) * (COPPERs) / 250000
2015 FULL LIST (as of 1/4/16 14:23 ET)
TwoAndAHalfCents - 48068.03
cwgii - 8119.76
Country - 3494.00
Hirbonzig - 577.15
Sullysullinburg - 413.60
J_Dodge - 298.69
PennysaverCP - 218.68
mrlaufer - 162.54
Whinstone - 103.62
everything - 28.24
plus1hdcp - 10.96
TheJonasCollegeFund - 6.35
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2015 FOREIGN LEGION SECTION
1 Austria 2c Euro - '04 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
7 Bahamas 1c - '84 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '87 (found by Whinstone), '90 (found by cwgii), (2) '04 (1 found by TwoAndAHalfCents, 1 found by Sullysullinburg), '06 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), unspecified date (found by everything)
2 Bermuda 1c - '71 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), unspecified date (found by everything)
1 Cayman Islands - '82 (found by cwgii)
1 Croatia 10 lipa - '01 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Domincan Republic 1c - '78 (found by Sullysullinburg)
2 Euro 2c - '00 (found by Sullysullinburg), unspecified date (found by J_Dodge)
1 France 2c Euro - '01 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Germany 1 pfennig - '91 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
2 Germany 2c Euro - '02 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '12 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
3 Great Britain New Penny - '75 (found by cwgii), '94 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '04 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Ireland 2c Euro - '06 (found by cwgii)
1 Luxembourg 2c Euro - '02 (found by cwgii)
1 Malta 1c - '01 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
2 Mexico 5c - '71 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '76 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Mexico 20c - '92 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 New Zealand 6 pence - '43 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Norway 50 ore - unspecified date (found by Sullysullinburg)
10 Panama 1c - '83 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '86 (found by cwgii), '87 (found by Country), (2) '96 (2 found by TwoAndAHalfCents), (4) '01 (3 found by TwoAndAHalfCents, 1 found by Sullysullinburg), '08 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
2 South Korea 10 won - '11 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '12 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Spain 5c Euro - '03 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Switzerland 10 rappen - '65 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Taiwan 1 yuan - '82 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
NUMBER OF COINS FOUND BY COUNTRY
Austria - 1
Bahamas - 7
Bermuda - 2
Cayman Islands - 1
Croatia - 1
Domincan Republic - 1
Euro - 2
France - 1
Germany - 3
Great Britain - 3
Ireland - 1
Luxembourg
Malta - 1
Mexico -3
New Zealand - 1
Norway - 1
Panama - 10
South Korea - 2
Spain - 1
Switzerland - 1
Taiwan - 1
