Hello Fellow Copper Penny Handsorters:
In March 2013, 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 2013 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 2013 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 March 31, 2013 9:24 pm forum time and earlier. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
COPPER PENNIES (NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS)
March 2013 FULL LIST (as of 4/1/13 21:08 ET)
spacemanX - 14466
cwgii - 13468
Bigsarge - 7723
Romalae - 6439
TwoAndAHalfCents - 6371
everything - 2246
Country - 1871
chris819 - 1180
sparechange - 487
plus1hdcp - 456
rosco - 213
dpwozney - 162
INDIAN HEAD PENNIES
March 2013 FULL LIST (as of 4/1/13 21:08 ET)
spacemanX - 1
WHEAT PENNIES
March 2013 FULL LIST (as of 4/1/13 21:08 ET)
spacemanX - 439
Romalae - 117
cwgii - 104
Bigsarge - 79
TwoAndAHalfCents - 71
everything - 40
dpwozney - 29
Country - 25
plus1hdcp - 15
rosco - 6
sparechange - 3
chris819 - 1
CANADIAN COPPER PENNIES
March 2013 FULL LIST (as of 4/1/13 21:08 ET)
dpwozney - 3644
spacemanX - 119
Bigsarge - 45
cwgii - 16
Romalae - 15
TwoAndAHalfCents - 15
everything - 14
plus1hdcp - 13
Country - 7
sparechange - 3
rosco - 2
1982 COPPER PENNIES
March 2013 FULL LIST (as of 4/1/13 21:08 ET)
TwoAndAHalfCents - 233
Country - 145
plus1hdcp - 58
sparechange - 35
PERCENTAGE OF COPPERS NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS
March 2013 FULL LIST (as of 4/1/13 21:08 ET)
chris819 - 59.00%
cwgii - 44.89%
everything - 29.95%
Bigsarge - 28.08%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 25.48%
Country - 24.95%
rosco - 21.30%
sparechange - 19.48%
plus1hdcp - 18.24%
spacemanX - 15.47%
Romalae - 15.15%
dpwozney - 1.62%
PERCENTAGE OF CANADIAN COPPERS
March 2013 FULL LIST (as of 4/1/13 21:08 ET)
dpwozney - 36.44%
plus1hdcp - 0.52%
rosco - 0.20%
everything - 0.19%
Bigsarge - 0.16%
spacemanX - 0.13%
sparechange - 0.12%
Country - 0.09%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 0.06%
cwgii - 0.05%
Romalae - 0.04%
chris819 - 0.00%
COPPER SEARCHER SCORE
SCORE = (COINS-SEARCHED) * (COPPERs) / 250000
March 2013 FULL LIST (as of 4/1/13 21:08 ET)
spacemanX - 5618.98
cwgii - 1630.56
Romalae - 1117.07
Bigsarge - 863.17
TwoAndAHalfCents - 645.70
dpwozney - 153.40
everything - 69.00
Country - 57.09
chris819 - 9.45
sparechange - 4.93
plus1hdcp - 4.84
rosco - 0.88
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2013 FULL YEAR STATISTICS COPPER PENNIES (NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS)
2013 FULL LIST (as of 4/1/13 21:08 ET)
cwgii - 50047
spacemanX - 26350
Bigsarge - 22202
Romalae - 14223
TwoAndAHalfCents - 11718
rexmerdinus - 8571
Country - 7434
plus1hdcp - 5685
everything - 5119
Whinstone - 2288
BenG76 - 2180
sparechange - 1917
agmoose - 1184
chris819 - 1180
MetalMonkey1980 - 1046
4 bit - 388
dpwozney - 335
rosco - 213
xippi - 146
INDIAN HEAD PENNIES
2013 FULL LIST (as of 4/1/13 21:08 ET)
spacemanX - 2
sparechange - 1
Whinstone - 1
Bigsarge - 1
WHEAT PENNIES
2013 FULL LIST (as of 4/1/13 21:08 ET)
spacemanX - 850
TwoAndAHalfCents - 427
cwgii - 343
Bigsarge - 273
Romalae - 264
Country - 144
everything - 93
plus1hdcp - 78
rexmerdinus - 56
dpwozney - 39
Whinstone - 36
agmoose - 35
BenG76 - 29
sparechange - 26
MetalMonkey1980 - 18
rosco - 6
xippi - 6
4 bit - 5
chris819 - 1
CANADIAN COPPER PENNIES
2013 FULL LIST (as of 4/1/13 21:08 ET)
dpwozney - 9035
spacemanX - 253
Bigsarge - 173
rexmerdinus - 171
cwgii - 90
Romalae - 41
Country - 40
everything - 36
TwoAndAHalfCents - 32
plus1hdcp - 28
sparechange - 13
Whinstone - 11
BenG76 - 6
agmoose - 5
4 bit - 5
rosco - 2
1982 COPPER PENNIES
2013 FULL LIST (as of 4/1/13 21:08 ET)
Country - 657
plus1hdcp - 639
TwoAndAHalfCents - 476
Whinstone - 246
sparechange - 129
agmoose - 123
rexmerdinus - 56
PERCENTAGE OF COPPERS NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS
2013 FULL LIST (as of 4/1/13 21:08 ET)
BenG76 - 87.20%
rexmerdinus - 62.56%
chris819 - 59.00%
cwgii - 41.71%
everything - 29.25%
xippi - 29.20%
Bigsarge - 28.65%
agmoose - 23.68%
4 bit - 23.52%
Whinstone - 22.88%
Country - 22.87%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 22.32%
rosco - 21.30%
MetalMonkey1980 - 20.92%
plus1hdcp - 18.34%
sparechange - 17.43%
Romalae - 14.97%
spacemanX - 13.65%
dpwozney - 1.29%
PERCENTAGE OF CANADIAN COPPERS
2013 FULL LIST (as of 4/1/13 21:08 ET)
dpwozney - 34.75%
rexmerdinus - 1.25%
4 bit - 0.30%
BenG76 - 0.24%
Bigsarge - 0.22%
everything - 0.21%
rosco - 0.20%
spacemanX - 0.13%
Country - 0.12%
sparechange - 0.12%
Whinstone - 0.11%
agmoose - 0.10%
plus1hdcp - 0.09%
cwgii - 0.08%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 0.06%
Romalae - 0.04%
chris819 - 0.00%
xippi - 0.00%
MetalMonkey1980 - 0.00%
COPPER SEARCHER SCORE
SCORE = (COINS-SEARCHED) * (COPPERs) / 250000
2013 FULL LIST (as of 4/1/13 21:08 ET)
cwgii - 24230.40
spacemanX - 21193.72
Bigsarge - 7020.88
Romalae - 5520.64
TwoAndAHalfCents - 2557.17
Country - 990.34
dpwozney - 978.54
plus1hdcp - 718.08
rexmerdinus - 482.13
everything - 367.36
Whinstone - 93.40
sparechange - 86.06
agmoose - 24.48
BenG76 - 22.15
MetalMonkey1980 - 21.28
chris819 - 9.45
4 bit - 2.63
rosco - 0.88
xippi - 0.30
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2013 FOREIGN LEGION SECTION
1 Austria 50 Groschen - '84 (found by spacemanX)
11 Bahamas 1c - '04 (found by Country), '06 (found by Country), (9) unspecified date (7 found by spacemanX, 2 found by Romalae)
1 Barbados 1c - unspecified date (found by spacemanX)
3 Bermuda 1c - '71 (found by Bigsarge), '78 (found by cwgii), unspecified date (found by spacemanX)
2 Euro 2c - (2) unspecified date (1 found by spacemanX, 1 found by Romalae)
2 France 2c Euro - '01 (found by cwgii), '07 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
3 Germany 2 Pfennig - '67 (found by cwgii), '84 (found by cwgii), unspecified date (found by spacemanX)
1 Germany 5 Pfennig - unspecified date (found by Romalae)
3 Germany 2c Euro - '07 (found by cwgii), '08 (found by cwgii), unspecified date (found by spacemanX)
2 Great Britain New Penny - '86 (found by spacemanX), '01 (found by cwgii)
1 Hong Kong 20c - unspecified date (found by Romalae)
1 Italy 2c Euro - '08 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Mexico 1c - '46 (found by cwgii)
1 Mexico 5c - '70 (found by cwgii), '74 (found by cwgii)
1 Netherlands 5c - '98 (found by plus1hdcp)
9 Panama 1c - '83 (found by plus1hdcp), '08 (found by sparechange), (7) unspecified date (4 found by spacemanX, 3 found by Romalae)
1 Spain 2c Euro - '99 (found by cwgii)
1 Switzerland 10 rappen - '83 (found by BigSarge)
1 Taiwan 1 Yuan - '96 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
NUMBER OF COINS FOUND BY COUNTRY
Austria - 1
Bahamas - 11
Barbados - 1
Bermuda - 3
Euro - 2
France - 2
Germany - 7
Great Britain - 2
Hong Kong - 1
Italy - 1
Mexico - 3
Netherlands - 1
Panama - 9
Spain - 1
Switzerland - 1
Taiwan - 1