Wheat to silver ratio?

[Cutaplug]

Went hunting yesterday and pulled out 17 old copper coins before I pulled any silver. Then bam 2 silvers in a row. Most of the time I see a ration of about 6 wheats to 1 silver found. Is that about average? In your opinion do you think this is because:

1. There were less silver coins than wheats.
2. Silver coins weight more and go deeper on average.
3. Other detectorists have gone through and pulled out the "high" signals thus getting most the silver coins.

 

[birdman]

Love the half and the bullet most of all. I dug 32 wheats yesterday and 4 silvers,5 nickles out of a virgin yard.

 

[LandOLincoln]

My average depending on homesite or park is usually 5:1 wheat to silver. Homesites I'm usually around 8-10:1 silver.

 

[E-TREC-Virginia]

I think more penny's are lost then silver coins. I would guess that most of the penny drops are from children who tend to carry mostly pennies vs. silver/chad. For virgin sites, the silver ratio may be higher because no cherry picking has taken place.

 

[gunwolf]

well I have 118 wheats this year and 10 silver coins , when I find wheats I almost never find silver in the same area. on days I pull silver my wheat count is way down. I guess it just depends what you swinging over on that day.

 

[ronfin]

I haven't been digging a lot of those signals that much lately, and it's been about 100 Wheats to 51 silvers in the last 3 months. The Wheat signals sometimes turn out to be trash most of the time.

 

[Jason in Enid]

I've looked at my totals from past years and overall it seems to be about 5 to 1 wheats to silver.

 

[Phillip_in_NM]

As you can see from my totals, my ratio of wheats to silver coins is about 4.5:1 since I started keeping track at the first of the year. Funny thing is, until I got the Etrac, I didn't bother even keeping track because there were so few of either!!!

 

[Cutaplug]

I haven't been digging a lot of those signals that much lately, and it's been about 100 Wheats to 51 silvers in the last 3 months. The Wheat signals sometimes turn out to be trash most of the time.

Can you tell the difference between a 9" wheat and a barber dime? I've found that a lot of times they sound the same, especially on deeper coins.

 

[Goes4ever]

Last two yrs with etrac I have been averaging just a tad over 4 to 1 for wheats to silver, and no silver is never deeper in my area