Several months ago I went through a period where I was finding a lot of wheat pennies but no silver.
It seemed to me that my ratio was much higher than Michael Chaplan's 6-1 ratio that he suggested was the average in his excellent book, the Urban Treasure Hunter.
When I actually counted my ratio was 7.06 to 1.
I started by asking on a couple forums I frequent what ratio others were finding.
Then I expanded it to several other forums.
Below is the average ratio from each forum I asked the question on. The total number of responses is in parenthesis.
I tried to use my best judgement on less than concrete responses. If someone said 7 or 8 to 1, I averaged it to 7.5 to 1. And I only tallied reponses where actual numbers were given.
This is by no means a scientific survey, since a lot of people, most people actually, were just making a best guess. And I didn't ask in every forum. But the final results were kind of interesting.
I put these in order with the forums with the most responses on top and the least on the bottom.
Minelab Explorer - 6.6 to 1 (10 responses)
Tesoro - 9.22 to 1 (9)
White's Main Forum - 6.9 to 1 (5)
Fisher F Series - 6.75 to 1 (4)
Teknetics - 10.3 to 1 (3)
Minelab E-Trac - 5.25 to 1 (2)
White's Spectra V3 - 7 to 1 (2)
White's MXT - 2.2 to 1 (1)
Garrett - no reponses
Bounty Hunter - no responses
When you put them all together the aggregate average of all responses is 7.41 to 1. Not too far off from Chapman's book, and real close to my own average.
It seemed to me that my ratio was much higher than Michael Chaplan's 6-1 ratio that he suggested was the average in his excellent book, the Urban Treasure Hunter.
When I actually counted my ratio was 7.06 to 1.
I started by asking on a couple forums I frequent what ratio others were finding.
Then I expanded it to several other forums.
Below is the average ratio from each forum I asked the question on. The total number of responses is in parenthesis.
I tried to use my best judgement on less than concrete responses. If someone said 7 or 8 to 1, I averaged it to 7.5 to 1. And I only tallied reponses where actual numbers were given.
This is by no means a scientific survey, since a lot of people, most people actually, were just making a best guess. And I didn't ask in every forum. But the final results were kind of interesting.
I put these in order with the forums with the most responses on top and the least on the bottom.
Minelab Explorer - 6.6 to 1 (10 responses)
Tesoro - 9.22 to 1 (9)
White's Main Forum - 6.9 to 1 (5)
Fisher F Series - 6.75 to 1 (4)
Teknetics - 10.3 to 1 (3)
Minelab E-Trac - 5.25 to 1 (2)
White's Spectra V3 - 7 to 1 (2)
White's MXT - 2.2 to 1 (1)
Garrett - no reponses
Bounty Hunter - no responses
When you put them all together the aggregate average of all responses is 7.41 to 1. Not too far off from Chapman's book, and real close to my own average.