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May 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 4:42 pm
by Country
Hello Fellow Copper Penny Handsorters:

In May 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!! :mrgreen:

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 May 1, 2016 mid-night forum time and later.

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Re: May 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2016 12:17 am
by everything
Another fairly dirty box, just some poor miserable green LMC ..
$25 box
593 copper LMC
+71 1982 copper
17 1982 zincs
+3 1959
+9 1960
17 2009
10 wheat oldest 1936S
9 canadian copper oldest 1953
.278

Re: May 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Thu May 05, 2016 11:25 pm
by TwoAndAHalfCents
$50 BWRs

Wheats:
2 - older (1911, 1938)
12 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (15.44%):
731 - Memorial 1959-1981
41 - Memorial 1982

3 - Canada (1965, 1989, 1995)

Re: May 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Sat May 14, 2016 11:59 pm
by TwoAndAHalfCents
$50 BWRs

Wheats:
2 - older (1919, 1935)
18 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (15.80%):
743 - Memorial 1959-1981
47 - Memorial 1982

6 - Canada (1957, 1973, 1979, 1981, 1990, 1992)

Re: May 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Tue May 17, 2016 12:02 am
by everything
Quite a bit cleaner box, still some greens as always but way less dusty, same percentage as last box.
$25 box
594 copper LMC
+67 1982 copper
14 1982 zincs
+7 1959
+8 1960
10 2009
12 wheat oldest 1926, lowest mintage 1948S
9 canadian copper oldest 1972
1 dime, yes a dime.
1 1993 balboa.
.2784

Re: May 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Wed May 18, 2016 9:19 pm
by Gipper1985
$25 BWRs

Wheats:
1 - Pre-1938 (1919)
12 - 1938-1958

Copper:
696 - Memorial 1959-1981
38 - Memorial 1982

18 - Canada (1950 the oldest)

Re: May 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Fri May 20, 2016 8:42 pm
by Gipper1985
$25 BWRs

Wheats:
0 - Pre-1938
10 - 1938-1958

Copper:
638 - Memorial 1959-1982

30 - Canada (1955 the oldest)

1 - Other - Bermuda (2001)

27.12%

Re: May 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Sat May 21, 2016 2:25 pm
by Gipper1985
$25 BWRs

Wheats:
4 - Pre-1938
18 - 1938-1958

Copper:
635 - Memorial 1959-1982
76 - Canada (1949 the oldest)

Non-Copper:
17 - Other - Canada
29.32%

Re: May 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Sun May 22, 2016 7:11 pm
by TwoAndAHalfCents
$50 CWRs

Wheats:
1 - older (1939)
11 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (12.10%):
568 - Memorial 1959-1981
37 - Memorial 1982

4 - Canada (1976, 1989, 1991, 1999)
2 - U.S. clad dimes

Re: May 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Sun May 22, 2016 9:53 pm
by Gipper1985
$25 BWRs

Wheats:
2 - Pre-1938
11 - 1938-1958

Copper:
568 - Memorial 1959-1982
23 - Canada (1950 the oldest)

Non-Copper:
7 - Other - Canada

24.16%

Re: May 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Sun May 22, 2016 10:58 pm
by TwoAndAHalfCents
$50 BWRs

Wheats:
1 - older (1936)
9 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (12.88%):
616 - Memorial 1959-1981
28 - Memorial 1982

4 - Canada (1965, 1976, 1999, 2004)

Re: May 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Tue May 24, 2016 9:38 pm
by Gipper1985
$25 BWRs

Wheats:
3 - Pre-1938
11 - 1938-1958

Copper:
730 - Memorial 1959-1982
20 - Canada (1951 the oldest)

Non-Copper:
3 - Other - Canada
30.56%

Re: May 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Tue May 24, 2016 11:22 pm
by TwoAndAHalfCents
$50 CWRs

Wheats:
1 - older (1935-S)
4 - 1950s

Copper non-wheat (5.94%): :thumbdown:
205 - Memorial 1959-1981
92 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (1993)

A big part of this batch was someone's dump of pennies from 1982 to 2003. The 1982's had not been separated so at least I got some copper there including a 1982-S proof.

Re: May 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Thu May 26, 2016 9:47 pm
by Gipper1985
$25 BWRs

Wheats:
1 - Pre-1938
7 - 1938-1958

Copper:
585 - Memorial 1959-1982
22 - Canada (1961 the oldest)

Non-Copper:
4 - Other - Canada
24.60%

Re: May 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Fri May 27, 2016 11:30 pm
by Gipper1985
$25 BWRs

Wheats:
1 - Pre-1938
11 - 1938-1958

Copper:
696 - Memorial 1959-1982
38 - Canada (1946 the oldest)

Non-Copper:
8 - Other - Canada
1 - 1943 Wheat

29.84%

Re: May 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Sun May 29, 2016 9:48 pm
by Gipper1985
$25 BWRs

Wheats:
0 - Pre-1938
8 - 1938-1958

Copper:
713 - Memorial 1959-1982
38 - Canada (1958 the oldest)

Non-Copper:
4 - Other - Canada
1 - 1943 Wheat (second box in a row)

30.36%

Re: May 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2016 9:55 pm
by Gipper1985
$25 BWRs

Wheats:
1 - Pre-1938
8 - 1938-1958

Copper:
616 - Memorial 1959-1982
30 - Canada (1940 the oldest)

Non-Copper:
6 - Other - Canada

26.20%

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