Wheat Problem

Scrappy · Oct 24, 2014

Have hammered a spot on 6 different days. I got (wheat cents) 12, 10, 5, 8 after a rain, 4, and 8 with a new coil after another rain, respectively. Dates range from 1919-1953. Most are in the 30's.

That's 47 wheats! This is only a 20x15 foot area. No other denominations and tragically no silv. I've picked all iffy signals but I'm out of gas. I hit it often since it's 2 minutes from my house and it's a corner of a park. It makes me wonder what used to be back there

Ever have this problem?

MUD(S.W.A.T) · Oct 24, 2014

I was hunting an area in a baseball field... Good silver signal every 4 inches all around, I dug like 30 wheat's and nothing else.. I was very disappointed, I thought for sure I would find a silver after finding all those wheat's... :icon_scratch:

Keep @ it and HH !! :hello2:

CoinHunterAZ · Oct 24, 2014

I would go back again and go r-e-e-e-a-a-a-l-l-l-y slow, I bet there's more deep ones there.

Tuggerman · Oct 24, 2014

Got a spot that I've pulled 30 pennies. Mostly 20s and older and 6 Indians thrown in. Hardly any trash so I dig everything and have no nickels or silver to show for it (not counting clad which is sparse but present). Boggles my mind!!

Argentium · Oct 24, 2014

Seems strange to me that earlier generations of detectorists would have cherry picked the silver , and left all those wheats , cause some of them could have been
silver dimes or Indian Head cents .

boysie.okelley · Oct 25, 2014

[emoji4]

fistfulladirt · Oct 25, 2014

Remember what a dime would've bought back then, I do.
If someone dropped a dime back then, bigger deal than today.
Pennies, not so much.

I-DIG-IT · Oct 25, 2014

Nice digs.

WheatWaffle · Oct 25, 2014

Nice finds!

Msbeepbeep · Oct 25, 2014

At lest your coin spill is wheats! Congrats! Two weeks back I dug a zinc coin spill 18x18" area 1-2" deep. 106 of the little boogers! And there's still more! I had to give up because my back was hurting.
Well now you have the wheats out of the way there maybe silver there too. :icon_thumleft:

Possible a corner newspaper stand or where the ice cream truck used to stop?

Scrappy · Oct 25, 2014

Thanks for the comments -great insights around this forum. Ok I'm pumped, once again, to go back in the wheat pit and find some more. Here's a pendant I found over there. About the only other thing I found that's of interest

Argentium · Oct 25, 2014

Nice watch fob ! Gotta be more goodies in there

WHADIFIND · Oct 25, 2014

I've heard the saying, "Where there's wheats, there's silver." And it's used to death and as a gospel truth.
But, the rest of that thought is never mentioned. Sure, there's silver! OR, (and this is important), there used to be.

I swear! I do believe that some people actually think that silver coins are a crop that just needs to be harvested every so often. They don't grow in there folks! LOL

Also, that a place can NEVER be hunted out. There's ALWAYS something there. This is close to true but a place is never hunted out UNTIL it's all gone.

As it applies to your situation, if you are finding plentiful wheats, your odds of finding silver is way high! It might take removing the pennies to get to them. Or maybe cleaning out the "trash". Or maybe, even, checking the holes dug very closely for deeper signals.

Anyone who was doing a "cherry picking" excursion, has absolutely missed things. Even if they didn't dig "penny" signals, a lot of deeper silver dimes might ring up as a penny, or less. Keep at it and see where the wheats stop. Pay attention to the iffy signals.

jewelerguy · Oct 25, 2014

Scrappy said:
Ever have this problem?

sounds like a good problem to have

beez0404 · Oct 25, 2014

I liken wheat pennies while metal detecting to finding black sand in my pan when gold mining. You will NOT always find gold if you are finding black sand BUT your odds are improved. Same with metal detecting. If you're finding wheat pennies then the targets are of an age that silver coins are possible. I happen to love finding wheat pennies for some odd reason. They get me pumped up and anticipating a silver coin signal.

CoinandRelicMan · Oct 25, 2014

Nice spot even if no silver, doing good lately to find even one wheat per hunt here !

treblehunter · Oct 26, 2014

jewelerguy said:
sounds like a good problem to have

Yeah, first thing that popped into my head, great minds think alike.

Keep hitting that spot, I mean look at that FOB, that is so cool, if you had just said, darn wheats, nothing but wheats here, then you wouldn't have hit on that great FOB.

We all should have these problems, lol.