September 2011 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

[RichardPenny43]

$25 String Box

614 non wheat/canadian (24.56%)

54 82cu

24 wheat (1 1920)

2 Canadian cu

1 dime

Realized I've been tossing my 82's in the wheat can and wheats in the 82 can , just spent an hour sorting that out.

[plus1hdcp]

$25 String Box

360 non-wheat/non-copper canadian/non-copper 1982 cents

+ 3 wheats (51, 53D, 57)
+ 3 copper canadian cents (72, 76, 93)
+ 54 copper 1982's (9 zincer's)

[Morsecode]

[quote="RichardPenny43"

Realized I've been tossing my 82's in the wheat can and wheats in the 82 can , just spent an hour sorting that out.

[/quote]

Done that!

I'm penniless tonight...bored to death. Maybe I'll go sort the laundry.

[Bartender]

$25 Brinks Box:

686 copper (27.44%)
62 - 82cu
10 Wheat
36 Canadian cu

[Bartender]

$25 Brinks Box:

834 copper (33.36%)
57 - 82cu
14 Wheat
39 Canadian cu

[Bartender]

$25 Brinks Box:

732 copper (29.28%)
64 - 82cu
9 Wheat
35 Canadian cu

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$25 Brinks box

Wheats:
3 - older (1930-D, 1934, 1939)
12 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (17.41%):
410 - Memorial 1959-1981
25 - Memorial 1982

Zinc:
25 - Memorial 1982
1761 - Memorial 1983-2008
36 - Anniversary 2009
225 - Shield 2010-2011

Canada: 1965

[crazypennyguy]

Handsorting's going a little slow for me - must be because the blogging gets in the way

Anyways, here's the stats for my first 100 rolls. They came from Trillim Coin Services of Toronto, and are a fairly good represenation of what's floating around the city. I should say that a bank roll would be better for "finds" - i.e., curiosities that don't have much numismatic value but would be likely be kept by a novice or sentimental penny collector.

So here's the stats, for my first 5,000 Toronto pennies:

* 1942 - 1977: 481, or 9.62%.
* 1978 - 1979: 190, or 3.80%.
* 1980 - 1981: 251, or 5.02%.
* 1982 - 1996: 1377, or 27.54%
* U.S. pre-'82: 132, or 2.64%.
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Total coppers: 2431, or 48.62%.

I really lucked out, particularly in the '82-'96 category. These figures suprised me; for some odd reason, I thought I was getting unlucky.

Two other tracking categories of interest:

* "Keepers," or semi-numismatic coppers that a naive or sentimental collector would keep: 32, or 0.64%. (These are all coppers.) Not bad for regular circulation rolls.

* U.S. pennies, '82 and after: 312, or 6.24%. Total U.S.: 444, or 8.88%.


I'd better stop now, because the jerky form is telling me I've run on too long.

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$25 Brinks box

Wheats:
7 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (18.61%):
437 - Memorial 1959-1981
28 - Memorial 1982

Zinc:
35 - Memorial 1982
1703 - Memorial 1983-2008
43 - Anniversary 2009
243 - Shield 2010-2011

Canada: 1965,1992,1999

[Bartender]

$50 CWR

1836 copper (36.72%)
114 - 82cu
27 Wheat (1911, '18, '20, '26, '29, '30, '36-D, '39 oldest)
83 Canadian cu

[crazypennyguy]

No category for this one, but it's a real find even for a Canuck roll-searcher. I scored a 1933 George V penny - in low VF, no less. Roll #133 of 10,000.

http://crazypennyguy.blogspot.com/2011/09/special-pennygeorge-v.html

It's not as momentous as finding an Indian head, but it's moreso than finding a Wheatie. I've found more than seven Wheaties already, and I'm in Toronto. The George V small penny was the first after Canada ditched the large cent. (1920-36.)

[Morsecode]

Nice George

9/26

$50 bag

1205 '59-'81
83 '82 cu
24 wheat
20 Canada pre-'97
93 mixed cu ugly

[RichardPenny43]

$25 String Box

684 non wheat/canadian (27.36%)

69 82cu

12 wheat

6 Canadian cu

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

2-$50 Bank Bags...$100 searched

3117 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-canadian copper cents

+33 wheats best...(18D,21S,31,36x2,37x2)
+187 copper 1982's (scale checked)
+13 canadian coppers

other:

1987 singapore 10 cents

1-counterstamp with the American Flag + The Liberty Bell

[crazypennyguy]

Got myself a real Canadian error coin: a 1968 curved clip variety. Here's the baby:

http://crazypennyguy.blogspot.com/2011/09/i-found-error-coin.html

It's only worth a few bucks, but it's a real brag. Lucky me!

[fasteddy]

I found my first two steel pennies from circulation...rarer than IH's for me. Probably because I am getting bags of pennies along with the boxes.

[crazypennyguy]

I'm now up to 200 rolls, or four boxes. The highlight of this 100 is a real 1968 error coin, which I was lucky enough to find in my 151st roll.

Anyhoo, here's the stats for rolls 101-200:

* 1942 - 1977: 540, or 10.80%.
* 1978 - 1979: 218, or 4.36%.
* 1980 - 1981: 235, or 4.70%.
* 1982 - 1996: 1084, or 21.68%
* U.S. pre-'82: 157, or 3.14%.
* "Keepers," or semi-numismatic coppers that a naive or sentimental collector would keep: 50, or 1.00%
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Total coppers: 2284, or 45.68%.

This percentage was less than the one for the first 100, but 45% ain't bad.

Another tracking category of interest:
* U.S. pennies, '82 and after: 335, or 6.70%. Total U.S.: 492, or 9.84%.

[Country]

First roll of 10,000 and the stats look good. 29/50 regular copper. The thirtieth copper was a 1939 penny in F-VF shape: a "King's Speech" coin. First roll lucky

I need the exact number of non-wheat/non-Canadian/non-82 Copper to include you in the stats. Thanks..

[Country]

found a 1998 hong kong 20 cent...while running my coins through the counter, it came out of $25 of CWR's...ended up with 52% Cu with many 1961 throught 1974 AU's.

I need the exact number of non-wheat/non-Canadian/non-82 Copper to include you in the stats. Thanks..

[CardsNCoins]

$25 Brinks Box (September #7)
729 Non Wheat and Non Canadian Copper (29.2%)
18 Wheat - including a 1938x2
3 Canadian copper - 1976, 1988, and 1991

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$5 in rolls from Brinks box the teller had open

Wheats:
2 - 1953 and 1955-D

Copper non-wheat (19.00%):
92 - Memorial 1959-1981
3 - Memorial 1982

Zinc:
4 - Memorial 1982
336 - Memorial 1983-2008
10 - Anniversary 2009
52 - Shield 2010-2011

Canada: 1935 (My first King George V)

[uthminsta]

My sister and bro-in-law have been accumulating change for 2+ years. They took all the "silver" coins out recently and spent them... so when we visited them in Florida, I saw a jar of just pennies, and offered to buy them. Here's the deets:

$20.67 sorted

COPPER STUFF
335 basic copper 1961-1981
Plus 6 wheats including 1920
Plus 7 early mems 1959-1960
Plus 1 s-mint mem 1974
Plus 45 copper 82s
Plus 1 Canadian copper
So that comes to a total of 395 coppers for a measly 19.1%

ZINC STUFF
Only 20 cents from 2009-2010-2011...
Also kept a zinc with a very large 6 stamped on the obverse...

[morris14ccm]

$25 Box and $9.50 in Rolls
1767 Copper - non wheat/Canadian (51.2%)
67 82cu
24 wheat
17 Canadian

[Morsecode]

9/28

$25 String box

597 '59-'81
33 '82 cu
10 wheat
9 Canada pre-'97
66 mixed cu ugly

[Whinstone]

(2) $25 Brink boxes

First box

656 memorial coppers

11 wheat pennies oldest "1923"

7 cu Canadian pennies oldest "1965"

105 1982 memorials 88 cu 17 zinc

2nd box

552 memorial coppers

7 wheat oldest 1942D

6 Canadians copper oldest "1942"

89 1982 memorials 79 cu 10 zinc