Wheat to silver ratio

[canman678]

I forgot to say. You need to get more creative with your sites and research, or door knock.

Parks in the old part of town have probably been worked over and the silver coins cherry picked. It is true that a park is never really hunted out, and silver coins naturally emerge after rains shifting nails, and errosion, but it gets to a point where you have to put in 10-20 hours searching a park, where you could search a well researched virgin site, or knock on a door and find one in an hour or two.

Avoid obvious sites like the oldest park in town, or the oldest church in town, somewhere you know every MDer in town has tried. You never know you could find something, but a better site would be where a church or park used to be, but now it wooded or homes are there... Don't avoid those sites entirely, because you never know, but always keep looking for that site.

Also look for a smaller town just far enough away that most MDers have not bothered with it. Have you ever seen all those sleepy little speed trap towns on the way to the beach? Those just scream silver! Also I have had really good luck with those brick townhomes built between the 1920s and the 1960s. They are like parks with people living in them.

Have been hunting around a couple of old houses in our down town area. One is on a corner lot. Also, permission on 2 vacant lots across the street and one of those is a corner lot as well. So far, 6 wheats and a small amount of clad. Did find some military stuff at one house and 4 Mr. President shell game pieces and quite a few keys from the same house.

 

[TxMike]

Wow, yesterday I posted my wheat to silver ratio, which was the best i ever started a year off. Soooo today, I found 13 wheats, no silver, and ended my 5 hunt in a row silver streak. I should half never posted yesterday. Grrr

 

[clone]

All the silver will be found in the silver layer. Wheats will be found in this layer too. If you are not searching at the right depth, you will only find previously disturbed or more recent silver. Not all areas have a silver layer. In some cases it was removed by bulldozing or other means.

Look at the change in your pocket. If you drop one coin, what are the odds it is a cent, dime or quarter?

So far I find the coins I find are about 10% dimes, 3% quarters,2% nickels,85% cents.

 

[RyanChappell]

Have been hunting around a couple of old houses in our down town area. One is on a corner lot. Also, permission on 2 vacant lots across the street and one of those is a corner lot as well. So far, 6 wheats and a small amount of clad. Did find some military stuff at one house and 4 Mr. President shell game pieces and quite a few keys from the same house.

They still could have been hunted, or maybe it is just a wheat streak and it will average out...

 

[bamadigtab]

Well, after yesterday's hunt I went from a 4 to 1 ratio down to a 3 to 1 wheat to silver ratio. Yesterday I found 2 wheats and 3 silvers. I'm feeling good about my silver take this year so far. If I can continue to average 8 - 10 silvers a month I should make my 100 silver goal by years end.

 

[canman678]

They still could have been hunted, or maybe it is just a wheat streak and it will average out...

It is very likely they have been hunted already. There are at least 2 detectorists in town that I know. They have been very active for something like 20 years in this area. One house I have been going to was built back in 1890. It's the one where I have found some military relics. The owner says it hasn't been hunted. So far I have found one wheat in the yard, the relics and some clad. So I'm thinking it may have been hunted before he bought the property.

 

[tjr35]

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[porschephile]

It is very likely they have been hunted already. There are at least 2 detectorists in town that I know. They have been very active for something like 20 years in this area. One house I have been going to was built back in 1890. It's the one where I have found some military relics. The owner says it hasn't been hunted. So far I have found one wheat in the yard, the relics and some clad. So I'm thinking it may have been hunted before he bought the property.

You are right. Very little left in my area that has not been hunted before. Competently hunted? Now that's another issue altogether! LOL!

 

[canman678]

Went to a site of an old apartment tearout today and found 4 more wheats. Got that ratio up to 56 to 1 now. The club member that was with me today found 10 and no silver. He has found silver there previously. So, maybe some more will turn up.

 

[canman678]

Got out for awhile today, found 3 more wheats. Got it up to 59 to 1 now. Will keep y'all updated as those wheats keep popping up!

 

[bamadigtab]

Posted by Bamadigtab
Well, after yesterday's hunt I went from a 4 to 1 ratio down to a 3 to 1 wheat to silver ratio. Yesterday I found 2 wheats and 3 silvers. I'm feeling good about my silver take this year so far. If I can continue to average 8 - 10 silvers a month I should make my 100 silver goal by years end.

Well after my last 2 hunts I went from 3 to 1 back to 4 to 1

 

[albiediggin]

I am still at about one to one. Going out Sunday so it will probably change. Also back during those years pennies were probably used more than today. Coins had a greater value too seeing how they were made from a precious metal.

 

[Jressman]

While finding Wheat pennies is a great clue to an area that may hold Silver it may not always be the case. A pair of MD'ers I new of 20 years ago never kept any pennies and strictly took the silver.

From my understanding that was more the practice back then.

I never understood how they cherry picked like this? Even the Minelab Etrac and CTX3030 has difficulty telling a copper penny from a silver dime. I get nearly identical numbers for copper pennies and silver dimes. I find it hard to believe those ancient lunchbox on a stick detectors had a better target ID than the cream of the crop today. Maybe though.

 

[Jason in Enid]

I never understood how they cherry picked like this? Even the Minelab Etrac and CTX3030 has difficulty telling a copper penny from a silver dime. I get nearly identical numbers for copper pennies and silver dimes. I find it hard to believe those ancient lunchbox on a stick detectors had a better target ID than the cream of the crop today. Maybe though.

Hard to believe but true. The E-Trac and CTX are MUCH better than my ancient Garrett MH7 and Whites 6000 both had a amazing target ID as long as it was 5 inches or less deep and no other targets near it. My 6000 was good enough I could identify silver dimes from clad dimes most of the time. I had ZERO problem knowing the difference between pennies and dimes.

But there is no way I would go back to them, the current Machines are sooo much better.

 

[lyness_m]

My ratio is probably about 35wheats to 4silver coins ( and that includes 2 war nickels )

 

[canman678]

OOPS!!! Messed my ratio up

Got out today at a site that has been producing wheats and has been known to cough up some silver. Didn't get any wheats today, but close to darkthirty I got one of those iffy penny signals. This place has a lot of trash. Anyway, I dug it up and out comes a 1951-P Rosie. I was using the 6x8 SEF and it was somewhere between 5 and 6 inches. Well, this knocks the wheat silver ratio down to about to 30 to 1. Gonna need a bunch more wheats to get it to 100 to 1 now. Although, I would rather make the ratio go lower. Thanks for reading.

 

[canman678]

Took off from work early today and went detecting. Got 7 some more wheats today for a grand total now of 66. This puts the wheat to silver ratio at 33 to 1. It's starting to get up there again. Also 7 wheats in one hunt was a new record for me as well. Until next time GL and HH.

 

[yellowk9]

Well, I've only found one silver, so my ratio is probably not very informative In a 1/8 acre section of my property I've found around 5 wheats (very toasty, no dates), 1 '41 Merc, 1 undated Buffalo nickel, and 1 1904 "V" nickel (in addition to a few clad coins). I just KNOW there's more silver waiting on me somewhere on my property

 

[MarcS]

20:2 or 10:1 for me.. including one war nickel

 

[diggerduo]

Since march 2012 to march 2013 the hubby and I have a combined ratio of 400 wheats to about 140 or so silvers.