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Wheat to silver ratio?

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marcomo

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In Michael Chaplan's excellent book, The Urban Treasure Hunter, he said the expected wheat to silver ratio when detecting is 6 to 1.

A couple weeks ago I actually counted mine.

It was 7.06:1 which is lower than I would have guessed before I counted.

I'm curious as to what ratio others here are finding?
 
I guess I've never thought about it. I'm tickled just to see that silver coming out of the soil! :bouncy: The blacker the soil, the prettier it is! [attachment 138805 smileys.jpg]

HH to all,
Nancy
 
When was the book printed? Our library never have up to date detecting books. The depth examples in them could only be good if the coins have not moved for the last 15 years.

Years ago guys were after the silver and didn't even bother with the pennies. So if you hunted a virgin yard you might get one ratio, and if the area had been hunted before you would get another ratio. If it had been hunted before earlier, the ratio would be different if it had been hunted more recently. I've never checked the ratio. Rob
 
I only hunt public areas like parks that have been detected before and have been very lucky this year. This year I've got 76 wheats and 34 silver coins, so about 2.2:1. I know a guy that is close to 1:1 for the year, so I think that there is a whole lot of variables involved. Wheats are keepers in my book, and any keepers is good keepers, HH
Jon
 
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