In June 2012, 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 2012 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 2012 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 June 30, 2012 2:21 pm forum time and earlier.
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COPPER PENNIES (NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS)
June 2012 FULL LIST (as of 7/2/12 17:03 ET)
cwgii - 6200
TwoAndAHalfCents - 4153
everything - 3789
Morsecode - 3000
Whinstone - 1220
thunter - 1041
Night Hawk - 617
RTPMarine - 572
Elwood - 279
rosco - 221
Hirbonzig - 183
dpwozney - 119
CanadianCopper - 82
INDIAN HEAD PENNIES
June 2012 FULL LIST (as of 7/2/12 17:03 ET)
NONE REPORTED
WHEAT PENNIES
June 2012 FULL LIST (as of 7/2/12 17:03 ET)
cwgii - 121
Morsecode - 86
TwoAndAHalfCents - 70
everything - 64
Whinstone - 42
dpwozney - 34
Night Hawk - 14
thunter - 12
CanadianCopper - 6
RTPMarine - 3
rosco - 3
Elwood - 1
Hirbonzig - 1
CANADIAN COPPER PENNIES
June 2012 FULL LIST (as of 7/2/12 17:03 ET)
dpwozney - 6577
CanadianCopper - 2906
Morsecode - 55
cwgii - 39
everything - 35
TwoAndAHalfCents - 17
Night Hawk - 9
Whinstone - 8
thunter - 4
RTPMarine - 1
Elwood - 1
Hirbonzig - 1
1982 COPPER PENNIES
June 2012 FULL LIST (as of 7/2/12 17:03 ET)
TwoAndAHalfCents - 225
Morsecode - 199
Whinstone - 166
Elwood - 28
rosco - 12
PERCENTAGE OF COPPERS NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS
June 2012 FULL LIST (as of 7/2/12 17:03 ET)
Hirbonzig - 36.60%
everything - 30.31%
Elwood - 27.90%
thunter - 27.76%
Morsecode - 25.00%
Night Hawk - 24.68%
Whinstone - 24.40%
RTPMarine - 22.88%
rosco - 22.10%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 18.46%
cwgii - 15.50%
CanadianCopper - 1.64%
dpwozney - 1.49%
PERCENTAGE OF CANADIAN COPPERS
June 2012 FULL LIST (as of 7/2/12 17:03 ET)
dpwozney - 82.21%
CanadianCopper - 58.12%
Morsecode - 0.46%
Night Hawk - 0.36%
everything - 0.28%
Hirbonzig - 0.20%
Whinstone - 0.16%
thunter - 0.11%
Elwood - 0.10%
cwgii - 0.10%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 0.08%
RTPMarine - 0.04%
rosco - 0.00%
COPPER SEARCHER SCORE
SCORE = (COINS-SEARCHED) * (COPPERs) / 250000
June 2012 FULL LIST (as of 7/2/12 17:03 ET)
cwgii - 1017.60
TwoAndAHalfCents - 381.60
dpwozney - 215.36
everything - 194.40
Morsecode - 150.77
CanadianCopper - 59.88
Whinstone - 25.40
thunter - 15.86
Night Hawk - 6.40
RTPMarine - 5.76
Elwood - 1.12
rosco - 0.90
Hirbonzig - 0.37
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2012 FULL YEAR STATISTICS
COPPER PENNIES (NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS)
2012 FULL LIST (as of 7/2/12 17:03 ET)
Morsecode - 98980
TheJonasCollegeFund - 62841
cwgii - 38374
TwoAndAHalfCents - 22981
Country - 22340
plus1hdcp - 18894
Night Hawk - 17602
tractorman - 17502
sparechange - 15361
Hirbonzig - 14210
RichardPenny43 - 13308
Franco American - 11594
Whinstone - 11072
coinwolf - 9335
agmoose - 9314
thunter - 5588
everything - 5323
appjoe - 2835
rosco - 2589
NYSorter - 1803
cecropia_moth - 1474
Dave - 1455
Rejinx - 1420
merchoarder - 1409
Shifty51 - 943
Elwood - 880
CanadianCopper - 617
RTPMarine - 572
philadelphiafan - 509
dpwozney - 440
mitsuki3 - 246
tulaneoutlaw - 168
CrazyTom - 151
4 bit - 85
INDIAN HEAD PENNIES
2012 FULL LIST (as of 7/2/12 17:03 ET)
Morsecode - 4
cwgii - 3
CrazyTom - 2
coinwolf - 1
sparechange - 1
Dave - 1
TwoAndAHalfCents - 1
CrazyTom - 1
Franco American - 1
Night Hawk - 1
WHEAT PENNIES
2012 FULL LIST (as of 7/2/12 17:03 ET)
Morsecode - 3107
cwgii - 1465
TheJonasCollegeFund - 1056
TwoAndAHalfCents - 410
CrazyTom - 402
Country - 394
Night Hawk - 381
tractorman - 320
plus1hdcp - 262
sparechange - 250
agmoose - 220
Franco American - 197
RichardPenny43 - 181
Hirbonzig - 178
Whinstone - 173
coinwolf - 167
everything - 84
thunter - 74
appjoe - 74
Dave - 72
dpwozney - 59
NYSorter - 42
CanadianCopper - 39
rosco - 37
Shifty51 - 26
cecropia_moth - 25
merchoarder - 21
Rejinx - 12
philadelphiafan - 12
Elwood - 10
mitsuki3 - 4
4 bit - 4
RTPMarine - 3
tulaneoutlaw - 1
CANADIAN COPPER PENNIES
2012 FULL LIST (as of 7/2/12 17:03 ET)
dpwozney - 12352
CanadianCopper - 11949
Morsecode - 2194
Franco American - 692
TheJonasCollegeFund - 540
cwgii - 301
Night Hawk - 190
RichardPenny43 - 109
Hirbonzig - 107
TwoAndAHalfCents - 106
agmoose - 106
Country - 105
merchoarder - 81
plus1hdcp - 77
Whinstone - 77
sparechange - 71
tractorman - 63
everything - 52
coinwolf - 38
thunter - 36
Dave - 20
NYSorter - 19
appjoe - 17
rosco - 10
cecropia_moth - 8
philadelphiafan - 6
Rejinx - 5
mitsuki3 - 5
Shifty51 - 3
Elwood - 3
CrazyTom - 2
4 bit - 2
RTPMarine - 1
1982 COPPER PENNIES
2012 FULL LIST (as of 7/2/12 17:03 ET)
Morsecode - 5767
TheJonasCollegeFund - 4145
plus1hdcp - 2060
Country - 1792
tractorman - 1427
Whinstone - 1317
sparechange - 1197
RichardPenny43 - 1134
TwoAndAHalfCents - 1118
agmoose - 605
appjoe - 260
Night Hawk - 200
rosco - 195
merchoarder - 133
cecropia_moth - 121
Shifty51 - 105
Elwood - 80
Hirbonzig - 12
PERCENTAGE OF COPPERS NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS
2012 FULL LIST (as of 7/2/12 17:03 ET)
Dave - 58.20%
CrazyTom - 31.72%
tractorman - 30.89%
everything - 30.42%
NYSorter - 30.05%
cecropia_moth - 29.48%
appjoe - 28.35%
RichardPenny43 - 28.02%
mitsuki3 - 27.33%
TheJonasCollegeFund - 27.03%
Hirbonzig - 26.56%
merchoarder - 26.09%
Franco American - 25.76%
Morsecode - 25.65%
thunter - 25.34%
agmoose - 24.84%
Whinstone - 24.39%
Night Hawk - 24.15%
Country - 23.78%
RTPMarine - 22.88%
4 bit - 21.25%
coinwolf - 20.74%
philadelphiafan - 20.36%
sparechange - 18.93%
Shifty51 - 18.86%
Rejinx - 18.68%
plus1hdcp - 18.24%
rosco - 18.10%
tulaneoutlaw - 16.80%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 16.42%
cwgii - 15.99%
Elwood - 6.52%
CanadianCopper - 2.24%
dpwozney - 1.69%
PERCENTAGE OF CANADIAN COPPERS
2012 FULL LIST (as of 7/2/12 17:03 ET)
dpwozney - 47.51%
CanadianCopper - 43.45%
Franco American - 1.54%
merchoarder - 1.50%
Dave - 0.80%
Morsecode - 0.57%
mitsuki3 - 0.56%
4 bit - 0.50%
CrazyTom - 0.42%
NYSorter - 0.32%
everything - 0.30%
agmoose - 0.28%
Night Hawk - 0.26%
philadelphiafan - 0.24%
thunter - 0.23%
RichardPenny43 - 0.23%
Hirbonzig - 0.20%
appjoe - 0.17%
Whinstone - 0.17%
TheJonasCollegeFund - 0.16%
cecropia_moth - 0.16%
cwgii - 0.13%
Country - 0.11%
tractorman - 0.11%
sparechange - 0.09%
coinwolf - 0.08%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 0.08%
plus1hdcp - 0.07%
rosco - 0.07%
Rejinx - 0.07%
Shifty51 - 0.06%
RTPMarine - 0.04%
Elwood - 0.02%
tulaneoutlaw - 0.00%
COPPER SEARCHER SCORE
SCORE = (COINS-SEARCHED) * (COPPERs) / 250000
2012 FULL LIST (as of 7/2/12 17:03 ET)
Morsecode - 160947.30
TheJonasCollegeFund - 59926.41
cwgii - 38534.40
TwoAndAHalfCents - 13158.32
Country - 8582.90
plus1hdcp - 7970.16
Night Hawk - 5299.25
sparechange - 5090.38
tractorman - 4052.74
Hirbonzig - 3101.93
RichardPenny43 - 2583.62
Franco American - 2246.94
Whinstone - 2056.08
coinwolf - 1717.20
agmoose - 1446.00
CanadianCopper - 1386.55
dpwozney - 1336.50
thunter - 502.63
everything - 382.13
rosco - 150.78
appjoe - 117.04
Elwood - 48.22
NYSorter - 44.74
Rejinx - 43.68
merchoarder - 32.64
cecropia_moth - 30.14
Shifty51 - 19.44
Dave - 15.47
RTPMarine - 5.76
philadelphiafan - 5.27
CrazyTom - 1.06
mitsuki3 - 0.92
tulaneoutlaw - 0.68
4 bit - 0.15
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2012 FOREIGN LEGION SECTION
2 Austria 2 groschen - 1885 (found by agmoose), '26 (found by Rejinx)
1 Australia 5c - '05 (found by RichardPenny43)
27 Bahamas 1c - '77 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '85 (found by Country), '87 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), (2) '90 (1 found by Whinstone, 1 found by cwgii), (2) '92 (1 found by coinwolf, 1 found by agmoose), '96 (found by agmoose), (6) '98 (3 found by TheJonasCollegeFund, 1 found by RichardPenny43, 1 found by cwgii, 1 found by appjoe), '00 (found by agmoose), (4) '01 (1 found by TheJonasCollegeFund, 1 found by Country, 1 found by agmoose, 1 found by Whinstone), (2) '04 (1 found by cwgii, 1 found by agmoose), (6) '06 (3 found by cwgii, 1 found by coinwolf, 1 found by RichardPenny43, 1 found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
3 Barbados 1c - '95 (found by appjoe), '98 (found by Whinstone), '99 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
5 Bermuda 1c - '73 (found by cwgii), '75 (found by cwgii), '77 (found by cwgii), '78 (found by coinwolf), '97 (found by TheJonasCollegeFund)
1 Canada Large 1c - '16 (found by CrazyTom)
3 China 1 jiao - '01 (found by Night Hawk), '02 (found by Country), '06 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Denmark 2 ore - '90 (found by cwgii)
3 Euro 2c -'99 (found by plus1hdcp), '02 (found by cwgii), '06 (found by cwgii)
1 France 50c - '31 (found by CrazyTom)
2 France 2c Euro - '08 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), unspecified date (found by cwgii)
1 Germany 10 Pfennig - '18 (found by CrazyTom)
3 Germany 2c Euro - '03 (found by TheJonasCollegeFund), (2) '08 (2 found by cwgii)
1 Great Britain Large 1/2 c - 1831 (found by CrazyTom)
2 Great Britain 1 penny - '89 (found by cwgii), '00 (found by cwgii)
1 Greece 10c Euro - '02 (found by TheJonasCollegeFund)
1 Honduras 2c - '56 (found by cwgii)
1 Hong Kong 20c - '80 (found by tractorman)
1 Mexico 1c - '37 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
3 Mexico 5c - '67 (found by coinwolf), (2) '73 (2 found by cwgii)
4 Mexico 20c - '83 (found by TheJonasCollegeFund), '95 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents),(2) '07 (1 found by cwgii, 1 found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Netherlands 1c - '50 (found by thunter)
1 Netherlands 2c Euro - '01 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Netherlands Antilles 1c - '61 (found by plus1hdcp)
1 New Zealand 1 penny - '72 (found by cwgii)
1 Norway 50 ore - '02 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
11 Panama 1c - '66 (found by agmoose), '79 (found by agmoose), '83 (found by cwgii), '86 (found by coinwolf), '91 (found by agmoose), '93 (found by cwgii), '96 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '98 (found by TheJonasCollegeFund), (2) '01 (1 found by sparechange, 1 found by Country), '07 (found by cwgii)
1 Russia 15 kopek - '90 (found by Night Hawk)
1 Serbia 1 dinar - '06 (found by TheJonasCollegeFund)
1 South Africa 1c - '78 (found by sparechange)
3 Spain 2c Euro - '01 (found by agmoose), '08 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '09 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
2 Sweden 50 ore - '02 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '03 (found by RichardPenny43)
1 Switzerland 10 rappen - '92 (found by sparechange)
1 UAE 1 fils - unspecified date (found by sparechange)
NUMBER OF COINS FOUND BY COUNTRY
Austria - 2
Australia - 1
Bahamas - 26
Barbados - 3
Bermuda - 5
Canada - 1
China - 3
Denmark - 1
Euro - 3
France - 3
Germany - 4
Great Britain - 3
Greece - 1
Honduras - 1
Hong Kong - 1
Mexico - 8
Netherlands - 2
Netherlands Antilles - 1
New Zealand - 1
Norway - 1
Panama - 11
Russia - 1
Serbia - 1
South Africa - 1
Spain - 3
Sweden - 2
Switzerland - 1
UAE - 1
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