October 2012 Copper Penny Handsorter Tracking

[Country]

Hello Fellow Copper Penny Handsorters:

In October 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 October 31, 2012 4:32 pm forum time and earlier.

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COPPER PENNIES (NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS)
October 2012 FULL LIST (as of 11/17/12 21:25 ET)



cwgii - 6668
Country - 3208
TwoAndAHalfCents - 2430
everything - 2185
Hirbonzig - 1361
sparechange - 919
plus1hdcp - 919
thunter - 793
OtusLotus - 639
agmoose - 529
Elwood - 338



INDIAN HEAD PENNIES
October 2012 FULL LIST (as of 11/17/12 21:25 ET)



cwgii - 1



WHEAT PENNIES
October 2012 FULL LIST (as of 11/17/12 21:25 ET)



cwgii - 129
everything - 47
Country - 44
TwoAndAHalfCents - 28
OtusLotus - 23
plus1hdcp - 17
agmoose - 16
Hirbonzig - 14
sparechange - 12
thunter - 12
Elwood - 2



CANADIAN COPPER PENNIES
October 2012 FULL LIST (as of 11/17/12 21:25 ET)



cwgii - 67
Country - 27
TwoAndAHalfCents - 17
everything - 15
agmoose - 14
Hirbonzig - 9
sparechange - 6
thunter - 6
OtusLotus - 4
plus1hdcp - 2
Elwood - 1



1982 COPPER PENNIES
October 2012 FULL LIST (as of 11/17/12 21:25 ET)



Country - 270
TwoAndAHalfCents - 123
plus1hdcp - 93
sparechange - 83
Elwood - 33
agmoose - 31



PERCENTAGE OF COPPERS NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS
October 2012 FULL LIST (as of 11/17/12 21:25 ET)



thunter - 32.37%
everything - 29.13%
Hirbonzig - 27.22%
Country - 25.66%
OtusLotus - 25.56%
Elwood - 24.14%
agmoose - 21.16%
plus1hdcp - 18.38%
sparechange - 16.71%
cwgii - 16.67%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 16.20%



PERCENTAGE OF CANADIAN COPPERS
October 2012 FULL LIST (as of 11/17/12 21:25 ET)



agmoose - 0.56%
thunter - 0.24%
Country - 0.22%
everything - 0.20%
Hirbonzig - 0.18%
cwgii - 0.17%
OtusLotus - 0.16%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 0.11%
sparechange - 0.11%
Elwood - 0.07%
plus1hdcp - 0.04%



COPPER SEARCHER SCORE
SCORE = (COINS-SEARCHED) * (COPPERs) / 250000
October 2012 FULL LIST (as of 11/17/12 21:25 ET)



cwgii - 1098.24
Country - 163.95
TwoAndAHalfCents - 148.50
everything - 67.41
Hirbonzig - 27.68
sparechange - 20.61
plus1hdcp - 18.76
thunter - 7.95
OtusLotus - 6.66
agmoose - 5.59
Elwood - 1.91


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2012 FULL YEAR STATISTICS

COPPER PENNIES (NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS)
2012 FULL LIST (as of 11/17/12 21:25 ET)



Morsecode - 98980
cwgii - 67629
TheJonasCollegeFund - 62841
Country - 44429
TwoAndAHalfCents - 33603
plus1hdcp - 19813
sparechange - 19166
Hirbonzig - 18235
Night Hawk - 17602
tractorman - 17502
Whinstone - 16349
everything - 15844
RichardPenny43 - 13308
Franco American - 11594
agmoose - 9843
coinwolf - 9335
thunter - 6381
appjoe - 2835
Elwood - 2793
rosco - 2685
NYSorter - 1803
Pij17 - 1674
cecropia_moth - 1474
Dave - 1455
Rejinx - 1420
merchoarder - 1409
slickeast - 998
Shifty51 - 943
duane1966 - 752
OtusLotus - 639
CanadianCopper - 617
dpwozney - 596
RTPMarine - 572
philadelphiafan - 509
mitsuki3 - 246
tulaneoutlaw - 168
CrazyTom - 151
4 bit - 85



INDIAN HEAD PENNIES
2012 FULL LIST (as of 11/17/12 21:25 ET)



Morsecode - 4
cwgii - 4
CrazyTom - 2
Country - 2
coinwolf - 1
sparechange - 1
Dave - 1
TwoAndAHalfCents - 1
CrazyTom - 1
Franco American - 1
Night Hawk - 1



WHEAT PENNIES
2012 FULL LIST (as of 11/17/12 21:25 ET)



Morsecode - 3107
cwgii - 2030
TheJonasCollegeFund - 1056
Country - 811
TwoAndAHalfCents - 609
CrazyTom - 402
Night Hawk - 381
tractorman - 320
sparechange - 300
plus1hdcp - 279
Whinstone - 269
everything - 267
agmoose - 236
Hirbonzig - 233
Franco American - 197
RichardPenny43 - 181
coinwolf - 167
dpwozney - 110
thunter - 86
appjoe - 74
Dave - 72
NYSorter - 42
CanadianCopper - 39
rosco - 37
Elwood - 33
Pij17 - 27
Shifty51 - 26
cecropia_moth - 25
OtusLotus - 23
merchoarder - 21
slickeast - 19
Rejinx - 12
philadelphiafan - 12
duane1966 - 11
mitsuki3 - 4
4 bit - 4
RTPMarine - 3
tulaneoutlaw - 1



CANADIAN COPPER PENNIES
2012 FULL LIST (as of 11/17/12 21:25 ET)



dpwozney - 16070
CanadianCopper - 11949
Morsecode - 2194
Franco American - 692
TheJonasCollegeFund - 540
cwgii - 524
Country - 208
Night Hawk - 190
TwoAndAHalfCents - 160
Hirbonzig - 136
everything - 128
agmoose - 120
Whinstone - 112
RichardPenny43 - 109
sparechange - 93
merchoarder - 81
plus1hdcp - 79
tractorman - 63
thunter - 42
coinwolf - 38
Dave - 20
NYSorter - 19
appjoe - 17
Pij17 - 13
rosco - 12
duane1966 - 11
Elwood - 10
cecropia_moth - 8
philadelphiafan - 6
Rejinx - 5
mitsuki3 - 5
OtusLotus - 4
slickeast - 4
Shifty51 - 3
CrazyTom - 2
4 bit - 2
RTPMarine - 1



1982 COPPER PENNIES
2012 FULL LIST (as of 11/17/12 21:25 ET)



Morsecode - 5767
TheJonasCollegeFund - 4145
Country - 3687
plus1hdcp - 2153
Whinstone - 1935
TwoAndAHalfCents - 1733
sparechange - 1489
tractorman - 1427
RichardPenny43 - 1134
agmoose - 636
appjoe - 260
Elwood - 259
rosco - 207
Night Hawk - 200
merchoarder - 133
cecropia_moth - 121
Shifty51 - 105
slickeast - 84
Hirbonzig - 12



PERCENTAGE OF COPPERS NON-WHEATS, NON-CANADIANS
2012 FULL LIST (as of 11/17/12 21:25 ET)



Dave - 58.20%
Pij17 - 32.82%
CrazyTom - 31.72%
tractorman - 30.89%
duane1966 - 30.08%
NYSorter - 30.05%
cecropia_moth - 29.48%
everything - 28.81%
appjoe - 28.35%
RichardPenny43 - 28.02%
mitsuki3 - 27.33%
TheJonasCollegeFund - 27.03%
Hirbonzig - 26.62%
merchoarder - 26.09%
thunter - 26.04%
Franco American - 25.76%
Morsecode - 25.65%
OtusLotus - 25.56%
agmoose - 24.61%
Whinstone - 24.57%
Country - 24.15%
Night Hawk - 24.15%
RTPMarine - 22.88%
4 bit - 21.25%
coinwolf - 20.74%
philadelphiafan - 20.36%
Shifty51 - 18.86%
sparechange - 18.76%
Rejinx - 18.68%
plus1hdcp - 18.24%
rosco - 18.14%
tulaneoutlaw - 16.80%
slickeast - 16.63%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 16.39%
cwgii - 16.10%
Elwood - 13.05%
CanadianCopper - 2.24%
dpwozney - 1.66%



PERCENTAGE OF CANADIAN COPPERS
2012 FULL LIST (as of 11/17/12 21:25 ET)



dpwozney - 44.64%
CanadianCopper - 43.45%
Franco American - 1.54%
merchoarder - 1.50%
Dave - 0.80%
Morsecode - 0.57%
mitsuki3 - 0.56%
4 bit - 0.50%
duane1966 - 0.44%
CrazyTom - 0.42%
NYSorter - 0.32%
agmoose - 0.30%
Night Hawk - 0.26%
Pij17 - 0.25%
philadelphiafan - 0.24%
everything - 0.23%
thunter - 0.23%
RichardPenny43 - 0.23%
Hirbonzig - 0.20%
TheJonasCollegeFund - 0.17%
appjoe - 0.17%
Whinstone - 0.17%
cecropia_moth - 0.16%
OtusLotus - 0.16%
cwgii - 0.12%
Country - 0.11%
tractorman - 0.11%
sparechange - 0.09%
coinwolf - 0.08%
rosco - 0.08%
TwoAndAHalfCents - 0.08%
plus1hdcp - 0.07%
slickeast - 0.07%
Rejinx - 0.07%
Shifty51 - 0.06%
Elwood - 0.05%
RTPMarine - 0.04%
tulaneoutlaw - 0.00%



COPPER SEARCHER SCORE
SCORE = (COINS-SEARCHED) * (COPPERs) / 250000
2012 FULL LIST (as of 11/17/12 21:25 ET)



Morsecode - 160947.30
cwgii - 117907.44
TheJonasCollegeFund - 59926.41
Country - 33440.64
TwoAndAHalfCents - 28185.04
plus1hdcp - 8762.28
sparechange - 7991.81
Night Hawk - 5299.25
Hirbonzig - 5097.50
Whinstone - 4452.19
tractorman - 4052.74
everything - 3572.58
RichardPenny43 - 2583.62
dpwozney - 2415.74
Franco American - 2246.94
coinwolf - 1717.20
agmoose - 1631.84
CanadianCopper - 1386.55
thunter - 637.96
Elwood - 242.76
rosco - 161.85
appjoe - 117.04
NYSorter - 44.74
Rejinx - 43.68
Pij17 - 34.97
merchoarder - 32.64
cecropia_moth - 30.14
slickeast - 24.50
Shifty51 - 19.44
Dave - 15.47
duane1966 - 7.74
OtusLotus - 6.66
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 Austria 10 groschen - '83 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
1 Australia 5c - '05 (found by RichardPenny43)
30 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), (8) '98 (3 found by TheJonasCollegeFund, 1 found by RichardPenny43, 1 found by cwgii, 1 found by appjoe, 1 found by Whinstone, 1 found by Country), '00 (found by agmoose), (5) '01 (1 found by TheJonasCollegeFund, 1 found by Country, 1 found by agmoose, 1 found by Whinstone, 1 found by sparechange), (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 10c - '85 (found by cwgii)
1 France 50c - '31 (found by CrazyTom)
3 France 2c Euro -'04 (found by cwgii), '08 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), unspecified date (found by cwgii)
1 Germany 10 Pfennig - '18 (found by CrazyTom)
4 Germany 2c Euro - '02 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '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)
2 Ireland 2c - '02 (found by cwgii), '06 (found by cwgii)
2 Mexico 1c - '26 (found by cwgii), '37 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents)
3 Mexico 5c - '67 (found by coinwolf), (2) '73 (2 found by cwgii)
6 Mexico 20c - '83 (found by TheJonasCollegeFund), '94 (found by cwgii), '95 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), '06 (found by cwgii), (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)
13 Panama 1c - '66 (found by agmoose), '79 (found by agmoose), '83 (found by cwgii), '86 (found by coinwolf), '91 (found by agmoose), (2) '93 (1 found by cwgii, 1 found by Country), (2) '96 (1 found by TwoAndAHalfCents, 1 found by cwgii), '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)
2 Taiwan 1 Yuan - '93 (found by TwoAndAHalfCents), unspecified date (found by cwgii)
1 UAE 1 fils - unspecified date (found by sparechange)

NUMBER OF COINS FOUND BY COUNTRY

Austria - 3
Australia - 1
Bahamas - 30
Barbados - 3
Bermuda - 5
Canada - 1
China - 3
Denmark - 1
Euro - 3
France - 5
Germany - 5
Great Britain - 3
Greece - 1
Honduras - 1
Hong Kong - 1
Ireland - 2
Mexico - 11
Netherlands - 2
Netherlands Antilles - 1
New Zealand - 1
Norway - 1
Panama - 13
Russia - 1
Serbia - 1
South Africa - 1
Spain - 3
Sweden - 2
Switzerland - 1
Taiwan - 2
UAE - 1

[OtusLotus]

I guess I will start it off this month!

639 coppers
6 CA (4 coppers)
23 Wheats
1 LA penny (cent with Louisianna state stamp)
25.56% US copper
Central NJ

[everything]

Box #1 9/14 bank pickup, loomis $25 box, Central WI
746 copper LMC
5 copper Canadian
13 wheat
.3056

[Elwood]

$14 BWR

1959-1981-----------305
1982 Cu--------------33
1982 zinc------------8
Canadian Copper---1
Wheat----------------2 (1951, 1944d)

24%

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$25 Brinks box

Wheats:
11 - 1950s

Copper non-wheat (16.40%):
389 - Memorial 1959-1981
21 - Memorial 1982

3 - Canada (1948, 1960, 1966)

[Country]

$25 - Brink's Box
635 Copper non-wheats (25.4%)
- 463 Nice coppers
- 120 Ugly Abes
- 52 1982's (ACE checked)
6 Wheats - 1937 and 5 others
4 Canadian copper - '49(George!),'76,'80,'82

[Country]

$25 - Brink's Box
641 Copper non-wheats (25.6%)
- 480 Nice coppers
- 117 Ugly Abes
- 44 1982's (ACE checked)
9 Wheats - 1937 and 8 others
6 Canadian copper - '72,'75,'78,'82,'87,'94
1 Bahamas Starfish - '98

[sparechange]

$10 BWR

180--Coppers--nonwheat/Canadian(18%)
95--Nice Cu
66--Ugly Cu
19--'82's

1--common wheat
1--Canadian--1970

[Country]

$25 - Brink's Box
630 Copper non-wheats (25.2%)
- 467 Nice coppers
- 108 Ugly Abes
- 55 1982's (ACE checked)
8 Wheats - 1929, 1955 (Shiny!) and 6 others
8 Canadian copper - '41(George!),'66,'70,'73,'74,'78,'83,'91

[Country]

$25 - Brink's Box
647 Copper non-wheats (25.9%)
- 454 Nice coppers
- 132 Ugly Abes
- 61 1982's (ACE checked)
10 Wheats - Oldest 1944
6 Canadian copper - '63,'74(2),'75,'79,'81

[agmoose]

$25 Dunbar box

498 copper (59-81)
31 1982 coppers
16 wheat, oldest 1935
545 total


14 Canadian coppers, oldest 1951

[sparechange]

$25 Box

421 coppers--Non wheat/Canadian(16.8%)
256 Nice coppers
126 Ugly Cu
39 '82's

6 Wheats--all common
4 Canadians--87,88,91,92

[Country]

$25 - Brink's Box
655 Copper non-wheats (26.2%)
- 476 Nice coppers
- 121 Ugly Abes
- 58 1982's (ACE checked)
11 Wheats - 1937, 1939, AND 9 others
3 Canadian copper - '67,'83,'87

[everything]

Box #2 10/5/12 bank pickup, loomis $25 box, Central WI
707 Copper LMC
5 Canadian Copper
24 Wheat
.2944

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$25 Box

Wheats:
1 - 1950s

Copper non-wheat (14.16%):
334 - Memorial 1959-1981
20 - Memorial 1982

2 - Canada (1957, 1980)

[cwgii]

1 -100.00
9-27---10-17-12


1959 == 24 with 3 "p"
60-67 == 187
68-74 == 461
75-81d== 632
75-81p== 261
82 == 201

wheat == 59 with 9 , pre 40== 36, 19, 36, 35d, 29, 21, 34, 37, 39

cdn == 15 with 14 , pre 1997

odds == first 10.00 lot all rolls were 'long' by 3-13 coins. dime, nickel , yes a nickel stuffed into the end of the roll.

I WAS THINKING I WAS DUE FOR A IH.......... 1907. IN A BWR .

[cwgii]

1 -100.00
10-11-19==12

1959 == 17 with 1 "p"
60-67 == 199
68-74 == 498
75-81d== 668
75-81p== 311
82 == 194

wheat == 24 with 1 , pre 40, == 37d

cdn == 11 with 9 , pre 1997

odds == one dime

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$25 Box

Wheats:
4 - 1940s
3 - 1950s

Copper non-wheat (18.16%):
434 - Memorial 1959-1981
20 - Memorial 1982

5 - Canada (1978, 1987, 1995, 1999, 2007)

[everything]

Box #3 10/19/12 bank pickup, loomis $25 box, Central WI
732 Copper LMC
5 Copper Canadian
10 Wheats
.2988

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$25 Brinks box

Wheats:
3 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (15.28%):
364 - Memorial 1959-1981
18 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (1943)

[cwgii]

1 -100.00
10-19--24

1959 == 27 with 5 "p"
60-67 == 210
68-74 == 517
75-81d== 826
75-81p== 316
82 == 227

wheat == 23 with 2 , pre 40,== 36, 25

cdn == 37 with 35 , pre 1997

odds == dime x 5, stamped dcm '67'

[thunter]

2450 searched

793 Cu
6 Canadian CU
12 Wheats

811 Total CU MTD

[plus1hdcp]

Back from a 7 month layoff from sorting - sold my house and moved - but am returning to add to the stack

$12.50 Half of a Strings Box

204 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper canadian copper cents
+6 wheats (42, 44D, 45, 53, 53D, 57)
+18 copper 1982's
+0 copper canadian ()

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

$25 Brinks box

Wheats:
4 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (16.80%):
401 - Memorial 1959-1981
19 - Memorial 1982

4 - Canada (1940, 1976, 1986, 2001)

[plus1hdcp]

$12.50 Half of a Strings Box

213 non-wheat/non-copper 1982's/non-copper canadian copper cents
+5 wheats (34, 41, 46, 46D, 56D)
+20 copper 1982's
+1 copper canadian (87)

Odd Find -> 1975 Honest Abe smoking a cigar