Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

[Rosco]

$4.00 cust wrap

104 coppers 26%

1 Wheat 1942 almost something

[Gipper1985]

$25 Brinks Box

711 US Memorial Copper
17 US Wheats (40's & 50's)
33 Canadian pre-1997 Copper

[Gipper1985]

$25 Brinks Box

714 US Memorial Copper
23 US Wheats (19,25,25D,35,37, 40's & 50's)
79 Canadian pre-1997 Copper

[Country]

$25 Brinks Box

711 US Memorial Copper
17 US Wheats (40's & 50's)
33 Canadian pre-1998 Copper

WELCOME!!!

Be sure to post your pre-1940 finds in the "PRE-1940 LINCOLN TRACKING TREAD" to get credit for them.

[Gipper1985]

$25 Brinks Box

711 US Memorial Copper
17 US Wheats (40's & 50's)
33 Canadian pre-1997 Copper

WELCOME!!!

Be sure to post your pre-1940 finds in the "PRE-1940 LINCOLN TRACKING TREAD" to get credit for them.

Thank you. I have learned a lot from you guys and I have been wanting to post to your thread.

For purposes of this thread do you consider pre-1997 Canadians as copper or do you cut-off earlier. If the cut off is 1979, for example, then I would have to revise my numbers by approx. 50% to be conservative.

Also, what do consider and ugly Abe?

[appjoe]

$25 String box
- 802 Copper non-wheats (32.08%)
- 616 Nice coppers
- 116 Ugly Abes
- 6 S-mint copper ( 68-74 )
- 64 1982's copper (Scale checked)
13 1982 Zinc
27 Wheats - Oldest 1925
7 Canadian copper 1867-1967x2, 78, 79x2, 84, 88
other 0

Country I want to thank you for all your work here. Keeping track of all the statistics the way you do really makes it interesting and enjoyable.

[cwgii]

18 s-mints (1968-1974)(still working on that box, too)

Do you mean a box of S-mint memorials? Interesting. How far are you? And how much total have you sorted to get to that point?

I'm about half way there. It's been a long hard strugle. Since I'm in Hoosierland, I don't seem to get many s-mints.

hmmmmmm, i just finished my 4th box...100.00 of 's' mints

[CardsNCoins]

$25 Brinks Box (December #7)
694 Non Wheat and Non Canadian Copper (27.8%)
19 Wheat - with 1923, 1936, 1939, 1946-s, 1950-s, and 1950-s.
12 Canadian copper - from 1961 to 1991

[appjoe]

$4.00 String rolls ( I stopped at a bank I was passing and asked the teller if she had any penny rolls hoping for CWRs and she gave me 8 string rolls)
- 99 Copper non-wheats (24.75%)
- 76 Nice coppers
- 13 Ugly Abes
- 9 1982's copper (Scale checked)
3 1982 Zinc
1 S-mint copper 1969s
1 Wheats - 1958
Canadian copper 0
other 0

[gothboi30]

$25 Brinks box of cents

5 Canadian ('64(x2), '89, '00, '05) 0.2%
10 wheats ('28D, '29, '39, '41, '44D, '45, '53D, '55D(x2), '58D) 0.4%
71 1982 (52 cu/19 zn) 2.8%
715 cu 28.6%
1,699 zn 67.96%

Just over 28% cu....not bad for my area, though I've had boxes as high as 34%.....
Oops....I forgot to include the bonus clad dime....2nd one found in a cents box recently....

[agmoose]

$25 Brinks box:

518 coppers
13 wheats (1 pre-40, 1919)
4 canadians (all pre 1981)
1 dime

Gobs and gobs of nasty, grubby 2010's.

[gothboi30]

$25 NF String box of cents

7 Canadian ('63, '69, '74, '81, '84(x2), '90) .028%
12 wheats ('16, '42D, '45, '46, '50, '51D, '53D, '54D, '54S, '56D, '57D, '58D) .048%
75 1982 (62 cu/13 zn) 3%
579 cu 23.16%
1,827 zn 73.08%

Below average box, though the '16 wheat was a nice surprise...

[gothboi30]

$25 Brinks box of cents

4 Canadian ('55, '82, '84, '88) 0.16%
26 wheats ('19, '25, '34, '40D, '42, '44(x2), '45, '46(x2), '47D(x2), '49D, '50D(x2), '51D(x2), '52D(x3), '53D, '55, '55D, '57D, '58D(x2)) 1.04%
103 1982 (79 cu/24 zn) 4.12%
648 cu 25.92%
1,719 zn 68.76%

Not a bad box....I believe that the 26 wheats is the 2nd highest number I've ever pulled from a $25 box....

[gothboi30]

$25 Brinks box of cents

3 Canadian ('81, '84, '05) 0.12%
17 wheats ('29, '40, '41, '44, '44D, '46(x2), '46D, '53S(x2), '54D, '56D(x4), '57D(x2)) 0.68%
89 1982 (68 cu/21 zn) 3.56%
653 cu 26.12%
1,738 zn 69.52%

Average box.....

[AGCoinHunter]

$25 in cents

509 - CU cents
4 - Wheats
1 - 1998 Wide AM

[Country]

$25 Brinks Box

711 US Memorial Copper
17 US Wheats (40's & 50's)
33 Canadian pre-1997 Copper

WELCOME!!!

Be sure to post your pre-1940 finds in the "PRE-1940 LINCOLN TRACKING TREAD" to get credit for them.

Thank you. I have learned a lot from you guys and I have been wanting to post to your thread.

For purposes of this thread do you consider pre-1997 Canadians as copper or do you cut-off earlier. If the cut off is 1979, for example, then I would have to revise my numbers by approx. 50% to be conservative.

Also, what do consider and ugly Abe?

When I'm handsorting and separating out my coppers, I put all the green, corroded, scratched, bent, and dark unnatural looking coppers together. I roll them up and when I get $25 of them, I seal the box and mark it UGLY ABES. Gotta keep the good guys separate from the clean stuff. Some folks don't pull their Ugly Abes, but batch all their COPPER LMCs together.

When I tabulate COPPERs found, it is the number of COPPER LMCs found. That includes the number of 1982 COPPER LMCs you find too. The wheats and COPPER Canadians are counted separately. Any Canadian 1996 or earlier counts for the Canadian COPPERs found. Canadian pennies 1997 or later are just COPPER coated steelies. For myself, I roll the 1953-1977 Canadians, the 1978-1979, the 1980-1981, and the 1982-1996 found separately since each variety has a slightly different COPPER weight.

In what state do you find your COPPERs? You get a lot of Canadian COPPERs; you gotta be close to Canada. In Virginia, I only get a few Canadians.

[Country]

$25 String box
- 802 Copper non-wheats (32.08%)
- 616 Nice coppers
- 116 Ugly Abes
- 6 S-mint copper ( 68-74 )
- 64 1982's copper (Scale checked)
13 1982 Zinc
27 Wheats - Oldest 1925
7 Canadian copper 1867-1967x2, 78, 79x2, 84, 88
other 0

Country I want to thank you for all your work here. Keeping track of all the statistics the way you do really makes it interesting and enjoyable.

THANK YOU... Everybody have a great Christmas season.

[Country]

Everyone - Please be sure to post your pre-1940 finds in the "PRE-1940 LINCOLN TRACKING TREAD" to get credit for them.

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

$25 String Box + $40 partial Bank Bag
$65 total searched

1909 (nice number) non-wheat/non-copper 82's/non-canadian copper cents
+37 wheat (oldest 1927, 1934, 1936-d, 1936x2, 1939)
+156 copper 82's (scale checked) (had 40 zinc 82's just shy of 80% copper...used to be more than 90% here)
+15 canadian copper (oldest 1956 hottie) (still working on that box)

other finds:

s-mints-19 (1968-1974) (still working on that box)
1-10 cent 1991 from singapore. (thought I had silver in the roll...damn)
AND...best find in the bag....the smoking Abe. Counterstamped ciggy or joint in Abe's mouth with smoke rings. Somebody recently posted a picture of this example...I'll look for it to add to this post.

[Gipper1985]

When I'm handsorting and separating out my coppers, I put all the green, corroded, scratched, bent, and dark unnatural looking coppers together. I roll them up and when I get $25 of them, I seal the box and mark it UGLY ABES. Gotta keep the good guys separate from the clean stuff. Some folks don't pull their Ugly Abes, but batch all their COPPER LMCs together.

When I tabulate COPPERs found, it is the number of COPPER LMCs found. That includes the number of 1982 COPPER LMCs you find too. The wheats and COPPER Canadians are counted separately. Any Canadian 1996 or earlier counts for the Canadian COPPERs found. Canadian pennies 1997 or later are just COPPER coated steelies. For myself, I roll the 1953-1977 Canadians, the 1978-1979, the 1980-1981, and the 1982-1996 found separately since each variety has a slightly different COPPER weight.

In what state do you find your COPPERs? You get a lot of Canadian COPPERs; you gotta be close to Canada. In Virginia, I only get a few Canadians.

Thank you for the reply Country. I sort in central/upstate New York and we tradiationally have a ton of of Canadian shoppers roll through town. I live about three hours from the boarder. I have become very fond of the Canadian coins especially the young Queens.

You must have a very high standard for your abes because I generally only find a few of what I consider really ugly. Those I do roll seperately. I would consider raising my standards, but then I would have to re-roll several thousand coins. I would not actually have to ofcoarse, but some form of OCD would kick in and I would end up doing it.

My last $25 Brinks Box

652 US Memorial Copper
13 US Wheats (1929, 40's & 50's)
28 Canadian pre-1997 Copper

[CardsNCoins]

$25 String Box (December #8)
711 Non Wheat and Non Canadian Copper (29.3%)
21 Wheat - with 1928d and 1947s
4 Canadian copper - 1959, 1964, 1964, and 1982.

[dp2007]

$50 CWRs

1102 CU non wheat non canadian Cu
plus
12 wheats
4 Canadian Cu
(22.36%) total copper
1 dime
1 nickel, yes a nickel

[appjoe]

$25 Brinks box
659 Copper non-wheats (26.36%)
- 524 Nice coppers
- 72 Ugly Abes
- 6 S-mint copper (68-74)
- 57 1982's copper (Scale checked)
10 - 1982 Zinc
15 Wheats - Oldest 1920
1 Canadian copper 1972

[appjoe]

Country,
I noticed that you didn't post any of your own penny sorting for December is everything alright or did you just decided to take a little time off form penny sorting?

[Country]

Country,
I noticed that you didn't post any of your own penny sorting for December is everything alright or did you just decided to take a little time off form penny sorting?

I'll be getting back to sorting COPPER tomorrow. I've got a stack of 41 boxes of pennies from my source bank to keep me busy for awhile.

This month, I've been spending a lot of time searching out SILVER bargains, breaking down some foreign SILVER lots, and of course Christmas is always busy.

Have a great Christmas everyone.