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Hello Fellow Copper Penny Handsorters:

In January 2017, 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 2017 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 2017 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 January 1, 2017 mid-night forum time and later.

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$25 box just picked this up at the bank Saturday 1/7/17 I was pretty impressed, but average for midwest.
LMC copper 633
1982 zinc 9
1982 copper 50
1959 4
1960 4
2009 21
Bahamas 1
Canadian Copper 1
Wheat 25 1919 and a 1925S
.2872

On 01/01/17 I brought home 9 ($4.50) specific CRWs (along with many more) that when I opened the first I could tell something was very wrong. My totals I hand sorted are as follows: five Indian Head (1881, 1883, 1898, 1902 and a 1909); twenty five steel (twenty one 1943 and four 1943 D); 8 wheat (one a 1930); 9 Canadian Copper; and two 2009. I can't give you any other figures as I threw the remainder into the Ryedale.

$18.00 of CWRs:

219 Cu
90 Ugly Abes (I'm kinda strict)
14 Canadian
6 BU/AU (Good strike, clean, few of any dings on Abe, etc.)
3 Wheat (none pre-'40)
3 Dimes
.1844 (kinda low but boxes are usually higher)

$14.00 in CWRs:

223 Cu
53 Ugly Abes
20 Canadian (1 1950 Geo)
8 AU/BU
4 wheat (none pre-'40)
1 BU '09
.22

$25 box picked up from CU on 12/9/16 dirty stinky with some 2016's in it.
LMC copper 571
1982 zinc 9
1982 copper 51
1959 3
1960 4
2009 6
Canadian Copper 6 Two were older, one was a 1940
Wheat 7
.2588

Picked up some rolls at a local M & T I've never used before:

$23 in CWRs
141 CU
34 Ugly Abes
6 Canadian
5 wheat (none older than '44)
2 '09s
2 AU+/BU
1 dime
.0817
Can you say dump bank?

So far this month I've done the following:

$3.00 in CRWs

41 Cu
20 Ugly Abes
5 AU/BU
3 Canadian
1 wheat (1940)
.233


$3.50 in CWRs

76 Cu
18 Ugly Abes
3 AU/BU
3 Canadian
1 Wheat (1929)
.2885


$25.00 Box

504 Cu
116 Ugly Abes
17 AU/BU
11 Canadian
13 Wheat (one 1920)

.2644