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Hello Fellow Copper Penny Handsorters:

In April 2016, 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 2016 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 2016 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 April 1, 2016 mid-night forum time and later.

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Date 3/23 - 3/31/2016

Box # 40 100,000 cents


# Copper 672

# Wheat 7

# Canadian 10

# Indian 0

% Copper 27.56

# C82 49

# Z82 10

%C82 83.05

Wheat 1935S,1942D, 1947D, 1948, 1950D, 1952D, 1952S

Best roll 21 x2, Worst roll 7

JD

$50 BWRs

Wheats:
17 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (14.40%):
687 - Memorial 1959-1981
33 - Memorial 1982

3 - Canada (1974, 1983, 1998)
1 - Bahamas 1 cent (1984)

$25 box
618 copper LMC
10 1982 zinc
27 1982 copper
7 1959
8 1960
17 2009
9 wheat oldest 1929
1 Indian head 1897
9 canadian copper oldest 1932, 1944
.27

$50 BWRs

Wheats:
3 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (6.52%):
310 - Memorial 1959-1981
16 - Memorial 1982

2 - Canada (1971, 2000)

What a terrible batch of rolls. There were so many rolls of new 2015-D and 2016-D pennies in the mix. I hope the next batch is better.

$50 BWRs

Wheats:
1 - older (1920)
17 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (14.80%):
710 - Memorial 1959-1981
30 - Memorial 1982

4 - Canada (1967, 1978, 2002, 2010)

$50 CWRs

Wheats:
1 - older (1935)
40 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (14.56%):
696 - Memorial 1959-1981
32 - Memorial 1982

7 - Canada (1943, 1962, 1973, 1976, 1978, 2000, 2004)
1 - Panama 1 centesimo (1996)
1 - Italy 2 euro cent (2002)
1 - Spain 2 euro cent (2007)
1 - U.S. clad dime

$50 BWRs

Wheats:
1 - older (1934)
9 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (17.14%):
822 - Memorial 1959-1981
34 - Memorial 1982

3 - Canada (1977, 1979, 1998)

Box 1 of 3
Wheats:
9 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (13.64%):
320 - Memorial 1959-1981
21 - Memorial 1982

3 - Canada (1974, 1979, 1983)

Box 2 of 3
Wheats:
1 - older (1937)
2 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (13.48):
324 - Memorial 1959-1981
13 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (1972)
1 - Bermuda 1 cent (1977)

Box 3 of 3
just another box of 2016-D pennies

$50 CWRs

Wheats:
1 - steel (1943)
10 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (43.32%):
2,066 - Memorial 1959-1981
100 - Memorial 1982

3 - Canada (1941, 1963, 1981, 1989)
1 - U.S. clad dime

$50 CWRs

Indian:
1 - 1884

Wheats:
2 - older (1936, 1939)
17 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (13.42%):
642 - Memorial 1959-1981
29 - Memorial 1982

2 - Canada (1964, 1975)
1 - U.S. clad dime
1 - 1981-S proof penny

$50 BWRs

Wheats:
1 - older (1936)
5 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (5.22%):
258 - Memorial 1959-1981
18 - Memorial 1982

4 - Canada (1983, 1989, 2000 x2)
1 - U.S. clad dime

A lot of rolls of new 2015-D and 2016-D pennies in this batch

$25 box
627 copper LMC
+56 1982 copper
+7 1959
+8 1960
13 2009
13 wheat oldest 1941
5 canadian copper oldest 1948
.2876

It seems like the stinkier the box the more copper it has, just a dirty box..
$25 box
683 copper LMC
+63 1982 copper
9 1982 zincs
+8 1959
+4 1960
14 2009
7 wheat oldest 1941
2 canadian 1 of them copper
.3064

$50 CWRs

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

Copper non-wheat (15.44%):
724 - Memorial 1959-1981
48 - Memorial 1982

3 - Canada (1977, 1978, 2000)