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July 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 8:41 am
by Country
Hello Fellow Copper Penny Handsorters:

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

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Re: July 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 8:20 pm
by TwoAndAHalfCents
Box 1 of 2
Wheats:
1 - older (1930)
9 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (14.88%):
345 - Memorial 1959-1981
27 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (1981)

Box 2 of 2
Wheats:
1 - older (1928-S)
6 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (14.84%):
347 - Memorial 1959-1981
24 - Memorial 1982

3 - Canada (1964, 1966, 1991)

Re: July 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 3:57 pm
by TwoAndAHalfCents
$50 CWRs

Wheats:
2 - 1950s

Copper non-wheat (17.84%):
836 - Memorial 1959-1981
56 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (1982)

Re: July 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 10:27 pm
by PennysaverCP
$ 25.00 box
601 memorial coppers
31 Canadian coppers
9 wheats
1 dime

25.68% keepers

Re: July 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Mon Jul 04, 2016 8:19 am
by PennysaverCP
$ 25.00 box # 2
597 memorial coppers
27 Canadian coppers
4 wheats

25.12% keepers

Re: July 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 11:43 pm
by TwoAndAHalfCents
$50 CWRs

Wheats:
1 - older (1939)
10 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (16.10%):
761 - Memorial 1959-1981
44 - Memorial 1982

7 - Canada (1963, 1983, 1986, 1991, 1995, 2000, 2002)

Re: July 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Sun Jul 17, 2016 10:27 pm
by TwoAndAHalfCents
$50 CWRs

Wheats:
11 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (9.72%):
464 - Memorial 1959-1981
22 - Memorial 1982

3 - Canada (1978, 1985, 2005)

Re: July 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 11:08 pm
by TwoAndAHalfCents
$25 box

Wheats:
14 - 1950s

Copper non-wheat (16.04%):
381 - Memorial 1959-1981
20 - Memorial 1982

3 - Canada (1983, 1984, 1996)
1 - U.S. clad dime

Re: July 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2016 10:09 pm
by TwoAndAHalfCents
$50 CWRs

Wheats:
15 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (13.58%):
639 - Memorial 1959-1981
40 - Memorial 1982

6 - Canada (1976 x2, 1981 x2, 1985, 2002)
6 - U.S. clad dimes

Re: July 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Sat Jul 23, 2016 12:51 am
by TwoAndAHalfCents
$50 BWRs

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

Copper non-wheat (6.50%):
309 - Memorial 1959-1981
16 - Memorial 1982

4 - Canada (1969, 1976, 2002, 2006)
1 - Germany 2 euro cent (2003)

There were an awful lot of rolls of brand new pennies in this batch :thumbdown:

Re: July 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 3:07 pm
by TXSTARFIRE
$50 Bag from 11-10-2014 Lots of old wheats in this bag.

Wheats:
6 - older (19-19S-27-34-36D-39D)
12 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (25.2%):
1175 - Memorial 1959-1981
85 - Memorial 1982 (72.6% of the 82s were copper)

19 - Canada (58-64-64-73-74-75-78-81-94-95-97-97-97-99-00-00-00-00-11)

50-2009
1st Design P-1
1st Design D-16
2nd Design P-3
2nd Design D-5
3rd Design P-7
3rd Design D-12
4th Design P-zero
4th Design D-6

Re: July 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 11:20 am
by plus1hdcp
Almost hate to post this because it was only $2 worth but I actually enjoyed the sort

$2.00 MWR

55 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper Canadian copper cents
+1 Wheats (44)
+4 Copper 1982
+0 Copper Canadian ()

60 Keepers 30.00%

Re: July 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 12:21 pm
by TXSTARFIRE
Nice copper percentage!

Re: July 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 7:58 pm
by TwoAndAHalfCents
Go back and get all you can from where those $2 worth came from. It's not too often that a batch like that shows up.

Re: July 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Thu Jul 28, 2016 9:49 pm
by plus1hdcp
TwoAndAHalfCents wrote:Go back and get all you can from where those $2 worth came from. It's not too often that a batch like that shows up.


I was very happy with a 30% pull. Doesn't happen very often. I do happen to live in a rural area where cash is still used by many (especially the farmers) so every now and then I happen on some hand rolls with high percentages too. I will be by that bank tomorrow and will try a couple more rolls.

Re: July 2016 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

PostPosted: Fri Jul 29, 2016 12:19 am
by TwoAndAHalfCents
$50 CWRs

Wheats:
3 - older (1920, 1935, 1936)
13 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (13.52%):
639 - Memorial 1959-1981
37 - Memorial 1982

2 - Canada (1980, 1999)
1 - plastic penny "school money"