Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

$50 bank bag sorted! (Lots of finds!)
1527 Non-wheat/non-canadian/non-82's copper!
+23 wheats(all-40's/50's) (3-55s in AU condition)
+27 canadian copper(15 from 50's)
+131 copper 82's
other finds....(1998 wide AM) (3 counterstamped coppers-1 kennedy 2-liberty bell)(1907 IH) (5-clad dimes) (1-broadstrike) (37 s-mints 68s-74s)

[dp2007]

200 CWR's rolls
Total CU 2230 (22.3%)
Wheats 30
Can CU 15

[fasteddy]

Country..you must have a time tree...where do you find the time to do these tracking threads....they are interesting indeed to read about others treasure finds....I haven't been tracking my pennie finds lately....I did return $205.44 in zincs this morning...Claudia is so nice..it's such a pleasure for her to change the bags for me...at least thats what she says.

thanks for doing these threads Country. Will be back on the silver tracking thread soon.

[Country]

$25 Brink's Box
515 Copper non-wheats (20.6%)
- 418 Nice coppers
- 44 Ugly Abes
- 53 1982's (ACE checked)
8 Wheats - 1936 and 7 others
4 Canadian copper - '63,'67,'87,'96

[Country]

Country..you must have a time tree...where do you find the time to do these tracking threads....they are interesting indeed to read about others treasure finds....I haven't been tracking my pennie finds lately....I did return $205.44 in zincs this morning...Claudia is so nice..it's such a pleasure for her to change the bags for me...at least thats what she says.

thanks for doing these threads Country. Will be back on the silver tracking thread soon.

Thanks....

The Copper Tracking threads are easy for me to do. I've got them pretty much automated. The Half Dollar SILVER thread is the one that takes me a few hours to update. I only do the updates for that one once a week.

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

$25 Brinks rolls. (not a great sort tonight)
611 Non-wheat/non-canadian/non-82's coppers.
+11 wheats (1917) (the rest 40's/50's)
+6 canadian coppers
+67 copper 82's

other finds (2004 bahamas cent) (1986 kennedy counter-stamped lincoln)

[ZigMeister]

I was in the right place at the right time. Picked up $102 in CWRs from a local coin shop...someone had come in and used them to make a purchase. The owner was just going to take them to the bank to cash in so I offered to buy them all which I did. Took 4 days to hand sort and turned out to be a Cu bonanza.

$102 CWRs
8813 1/10 toz .950 fine US coined Copper Bullion (86.4%)
26 Wheats (2-'36, '39D)
1967 "JFK" image counterstamp
2002 MS State counterstamp
and the Best of all
a 1972 Double Die DDO-1

http://i692.photobucket.com/albums/vv28 ... 1285249574

[Sanford02]

$25 N.F. String box
2 copper Canadians
12 wheats
15 1982 zinc
60 1982 copper
672 from 1959-1981.

[Country]

$25 Brink's Box
523 Copper non-wheats (20.9%)
- 406 Nice coppers
- 56 Ugly Abes
- 61 1982's (ACE checked)
3 Wheats - Oldest 1944
1 Canadian copper - '91

[Country]

I was in the right place at the right time. Picked up $102 in CWRs from a local coin shop...someone had come in and used them to make a purchase. The owner was just going to take them to the bank to cash in so I offered to buy them all which I did. Took 4 days to hand sort and turned out to be a Cu bonanza.

$102 CWRs
8813 1/10 toz .950 fine US coined Copper Bullion (86.4%)
26 Wheats (2-'36, '39D)
1967 "JFK" image counterstamp
2002 MS State counterstamp
and the Best of all
a 1972 Double Die DDO-1

http://i692.photobucket.com/albums/vv28 ... 1285249574

Nice pickup!!

[PreservingThePast]

$30.00 (SHORTED 17 PENNIES TOTAL) - 28 CRWs & 2 BWRs --
OOPS.......This should be $15.00 (SHORTED 17 PENNIES TOTAL)
Sorry. Brain mal-functioned again. Caught it as I was compiling statistics for next post in this thread. (Edited on 09/29/10 to make correction in dollar amount.)
1959 - 1981 Cu pennies - 286

Cu "S" Mint Mark - 2 (1970S, 1969S)

1982 Cu - 33

1982 Zinc - 4
(1982 Pennies are checked on a digital scale)

Indian Head - None

Wheats - 10 (No Pre-40s)

Canadian Cu - 5 (including one Rock Dove and one King George VI)

2009 - LP1 - 1
2009 - LP2 - 3
2009 - LP3 - 8
2009 - LP4 - 0
(2009 is the year our son married so I keep the 2009 coins for anniversary coin jars for future anniversary gifts.)

Other - 5 US Dimes, 1 Canadian Non-Copper Penny, 7 - 2010 Shield Pennies (all P mint mark)

*Please Note: I do not keep track of the kids' birth years (both are zinc years) any longer, although I save them, unless it is some spectacular amount in a roll.


Enjoy your coin searches, everyone.

[Jackson]

Hello guys. I am new to this website as I found it checking spot prices on Kitco. This is very exciting news for me. I have been hand sorting copper penny's for the past three years. (140,500+ coppers rolled and boxed in my basement, to inculde a full box of wheat ears.)

My wife and friends have been calling me a nut for this hobby of mine, so I can't emphasize enough how fun it is for me to find this site with fellow penny hoarders. I think the idea is a smart one and have even considered finding a mechanical sorter and starting a business like the Portland Mint (another site I found on kitco last week.) However i am simply too busy with evrything else to really start that type of operation.

Great to find you guys but I was having a few problems figuring out your abbreviations. Also, what exactly do you consider an 'ugly abe'. I have been rolling all of my copper's 1959-1981 in the same paper roll regardless of condition. Am I making a mistake by doing so?

Please fill me in,

Thanks,

Jackson

[Jackson]

Sorry for my ignorance, but please fill me in on the following ;
CRW ?
BWR ?
CU ?
ACE Checked ?
LP1 ?
LP2 ?
LP3 ?
LP4 ?

Also, what do you guys consider as "ugly Abes" and have I been making a mistake by rolling all of my 1959-1982 (copper 1982 only) together?

Thanks for the input.

[dp2007]

$25.00 CWRs
595 total copper (23.6%)
9 wheats
1 Can Cu

[Country]

Sorry for my ignorance, but please fill me in on the following ;
CRW ?
BWR ?
CU ?
ACE Checked ?
LP1 ?
LP2 ?
LP3 ?
LP4 ?

Also, what do you guys consider as "ugly Abes" and have I been making a mistake by rolling all of my 1959-1982 (copper 1982 only) together?

Thanks for the input.

WELCOME!!!

CWR - Customer Wrapped Roll - paper rolls customers cash in at the bank; known to have a high percentage of coppers and wheats.
BWR - Bank Wrapped Roll - paper rolls/plastic rolls that are in the bank provider's $25 boxes
CU - Copper pennies; usually noted that way to denote 1959-1982 coppers, separate from the wheats
ACE Checked - The Rydale ACE is a hand feeding machine that sorts pennies into two cups; coppers on the right and zincs on the left. Running 1982s through this machine to double-check copper 1982s from zinc 1982s is far easier than weighing each of them. I use the Ryedale ACE (available for $109 shipped) to hand sort all my pennies as I am watching TV.
LP1 - 2009 Lincoln Penny; design featuring Lincoln log cabin on reverse
LP2 - 2009 Lincoln Penny; design featuring Lincoln formative years, Lincoln as a log splitter on the reverse
LP3 - 2009 Lincoln Penny; design featuring Lincoln as a lawyer/politician on the reverse
LP4 - 2009 Lincoln Penny; design featuring the Capitol on the reverse, commemorating Lincoln as the President

http://2009lincolnpennies.com/

Ugly Abes - I keep these, but roll them separately apart from the clean coppers. An Ugly Abe is the green-crusty coppers with corrosion, damaged/scratched/bent coppers, coppers with a disgusting patina, coppers that are green in some way, coppers that are dark, etc. It's sort of subjective, but these coppers are the bad boys.

I paper roll separately the Ugly Abes, Clean Coppers, 1982s, and Wheats. When I get 50 rolls of any of these, I put each category in a $25 box and seal it for storage. Some folks don't go this far because it is time consuming, but I like to keep everything separate; especially the Ugly Abes which can have a bad influence on my good coppers over time....

[dp2007]

"Sorry for my ignorance, but please fill me in on the following ;
CRW ?
BWR ?
CU ?
ACE Checked ?
LP1 ?
LP2 ?
LP3 ?
LP4 ?

Also, what do you guys consider as "ugly Abes" and have I been making a mistake by rolling all of my 1959-1982 (copper 1982 only) together?"

I'll give it a shot--
CRW= customer wrapped rolls
BRW+ Brinks or Bank wrapped rolls (could be either, I guess)
CU = copper
ACE checked= I assume someone uses a Ryedale Ace sorter to sort out the 82 zinc from the 82 copper.
LP1- LP4 = the 4 different series of cents issued in 2009.
As far as "ugly Abes" I'll let someone else answer. I too wrap all my copper together ugly or not.

[Country]

$25 Brink's Box
481 Copper non-wheats (19.2%)
- 398 Nice coppers
- 40 Ugly Abes
- 43 1982's (ACE checked)
6 Wheats - 1919, 1928, and 6 others
1 Canadian copper - '83

My copper percentage seems to going down. First time under 20% copper. The boxes I got in July produced 24+%. Lately, it's down around 20%. As times passes, I know there will be a diminishing supply of copper.

[Sanford02]

Just finished a $5 sort. N.F. string rolls:

2 copper Canadians
4 wheats
5 1982 zinc
16 1982 copper
154 from 1959-1981

about 31% copper

[ZigMeister]

CU (both Capital letters = Credit Union)
Cu (Capital "C" and lower case "u" = Copper Memorial Pennies...Cu is the chemical element symbol in the Periodic Table for Copper.)

[Rosco]

$8.50 CW
247 copper 32%
2Cdn
4 Wheat's oldest 1937s

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

$7.52 sorted from a penny jar!

207 non-wheat/non-canadian/non-82's coppers (1959-1981)
+7 wheats (oldest 1936...very rare)
+4 canadian (oldest 1946)
+29 copper 82's

***I had an earlier post about finding another bahamas cent...this one 2004***** #2 this month!

[Rev.Jaye]

I store them unrolled in 10 pound Walmart Donut frosting buckets. I have 82 pounds currently and am working on 4 boxes a week. My best find so far is a 2009 ( double thumb) CDDR-002 MS 64 that is now in it's ICG slab. Kind of overkill on the getting slabbed but, is my first cool find. Maybe my someday grandkids will enjoy it.
I would like to sell my wheats but don't know how yet.

[Rodebaugh]

$75 face sorted 9/25/10

pre82 Cu...1846
82 cu......232
Wheat......21
Can Cu.....12

[PreservingThePast]

$30.00 (SHORTED 17 PENNIES TOTAL) - 28 CRWs & 2 BWRs

1959 - 1981 Cu pennies - 286

Cu "S" Mint Mark - 2 (1970S, 1969S)

1982 Cu - 33

1982 Zinc - 4
(1982 Pennies are checked on a digital scale)

Indian Head - None

Wheats - 10 (No Pre-40s)

Canadian Cu - 5 (including one Rock Dove and one King George VI)

2009 - LP1 - 1
2009 - LP2 - 3
2009 - LP3 - 8
2009 - LP4 - 0
(2009 is the year our son married so I keep the 2009 coins for anniversary coin jars for future anniversary gifts.)

Other - 5 US Dimes, 1 Canadian Non-Copper Penny, 7 - 2010 Shield Pennies (all P mint mark)

*Please Note: I do not keep track of the kids' birth years (both are zinc years) any longer, although I save them, unless it is some spectacular amount in a roll.


Enjoy your coin searches, everyone.

Country.......Am I not eligible for the 1982 Cu pennies since I check them by a digital scale rather than by an ACE?

Thanks, Country, for this tracking thread too.

[Country]

$30.00 (SHORTED 17 PENNIES TOTAL) - 28 CRWs & 2 BWRs

1959 - 1981 Cu pennies - 286

Cu "S" Mint Mark - 2 (1970S, 1969S)

1982 Cu - 33

1982 Zinc - 4
(1982 Pennies are checked on a digital scale)

Indian Head - None

Wheats - 10 (No Pre-40s)

Canadian Cu - 5 (including one Rock Dove and one King George VI)

2009 - LP1 - 1
2009 - LP2 - 3
2009 - LP3 - 8
2009 - LP4 - 0
(2009 is the year our son married so I keep the 2009 coins for anniversary coin jars for future anniversary gifts.)

Other - 5 US Dimes, 1 Canadian Non-Copper Penny, 7 - 2010 Shield Pennies (all P mint mark)

*Please Note: I do not keep track of the kids' birth years (both are zinc years) any longer, although I save them, unless it is some spectacular amount in a roll.


Enjoy your coin searches, everyone.

Country.......Am I not eligible for the 1982 Cu pennies since I check them by a digital scale rather than by an ACE?

Thanks, Country, for this tracking thread too.

Thanks....
A digital scale is fine. That's what I used before I got my Ryedale ACE (a handsorter's gift from the Copper gods!!)