Indian/Wheat cents

[Anonymous]

I was wondering what the find ratio of I.H. to wheat to memorial cents is for most of you. My father in law says he can remember a lot of indians still in circulation in the late 30's. I've found a lot of wheats, but no indians.

 

[Anonymous]

IH's don't read like wheats or Memorial pennys. Because they were made of bronze they almost come in like a zincer or a notch below. In 5 1/2 yrs., I have only found 2, but there are some out there. Just keep swinging and one will show up one day!!

 

[Anonymous]

Six (Wheats) to one (IH) ratio, here in old NH. They should real two notches below the penny notch.
HH, Eric

 

[Anonymous]

Depends on where you are. They are as scarce as hens teeth out here.
Bill

 

[Anonymous]

have found my share of indians, even a 1864 bronze,, but not nearly as many as wheats. I have a huge jar of wheat pennies ive found. ratio, who knows. later tim

 

[Anonymous]

The site is the most important way of improving your IH count. I hunt mostly pre-1900 homesites with my fisher cz-3d. I lurk on here because I recently talked a friend of mine into buying an ACE 250. I have found 17 IHs so far this year on old homesites. I found around 30 last year. You won't come up with as many coins from old homes as you do a park but you will find more old coins and that's you're really after. Remember, if they're not in the ground you're hunting, you can't find them. Sounds stupidly basic but a lot of people expect to find old coins where they'll never be.
The 3D is designed to bring older IHs up into the zinc penny icon to get you to dig them. IHs will fall under regular pennies, zincers, and some will come in as a tab on most machines. If you're digging in an old yard, you'll have to dig all of these to be sure. I was glad to see that my buddy's 250 ID'ed some of my 1880's IHs as zincers. But that was on top of the ground. I don't know how it would act in the ground.
Good Luck,
Dave

 

[Anonymous]

Been averaging about 100 IHs to 700-800 wheats for last three years. Certainly do believe that they circulated into the 1930s, should be able to find them about anywhere in the USA.
Chris

 

[Anonymous]

circulated commonly into the '40s & somewhat into the '50s. I found a 1903 Indian at an elementary school built in 1952 (the area was previously rural).
Part of the problem is places like parks may be relandscaped frequently with lots of fill dirt. I remember in the '70s I would find lots of Indian cents at some old places & few or none at other old places. It's the fill dirt thing, pretty sure. I once got some annual reports from park districts & they said things like "due to erosion, 8 inches of fill dirt was added to Island Park". Once I saw a school where the entire front yard was excavated to a depth of several feet or more, got to feel sorry for whoever detected there after that.
Besides fill dirt, other park renovations bury the old stuff where we can't get it: asphalt parking lots, asphalt or concrete basketball courts, concrete around picnic tables, newer park buildings sitting on old coins, volleyball pits or beaches where they take away old dirt & replace it with soft sand, etc.
Rivers & oceans deposit silt atop old coins or carry them away. And those places where the old coins were shallow were heavily detected in the '70s. Hope I haven't discouraged anyone with these comments. HH, George (MN)