Goes4ever, let us know what park you bury those wheats in!
Wheats are better than nothing, i'll take 'em.
Those are nice finds. Around here, that would be a good day.
Unusual to see a religious medal with a date, an old date at that.
Yeah, those strange silver/wheat ratios.
I searched a pounded turn of the Century park with a great history 8 or 9 times where i found around three dozen wheats averaging about 7-8 inches deep.
Only found 3 silver dimes (one paper thin Barber, 2 mercs), one silver ring and one Indian there all elbow deep except the ring.
Those 3 silver dimes just might be the last silver left in that park. The wheat to silver ratio is way way off in that park. Similar story with another large local turn of the Century park.
Sqeezing out any remaining silver in some of these old parks can be a formidable challenge.
Only things i can think:
-Freshly dropped silver is easier to spot whereas pennies blend in more with the turf.
-Back in the day, kids were more apt to carry pennies instead of higher value coins.
-Silver cherry picking by dectorists over the past decades. The shallower silver a few decades ago was easier to detect even with the machines of that time period.
These large old city parks with histories have been and still continue to be detectorist magnets.
Door knocking is probably the only answer in some areas for finding silver.
