whilst out detecting a local wood chip play area I came found this ring looks like 9ct. The reason it scared me was because I eye balled it lying on top of the wood chips. I ran my detector over the top of it and guess what nothing not even a beep it was as if it wasn't there and yet I was finding coins at good depths. I was running in dual discrimination with zero on setting one and around iron on discrimination two.
Just makes me think what else have I missed in the last years currently saving for a newer machine.
18th c. Engraved Silver Friendship Pendant
1722 Colonies Francoises French 9 Deniers Copper
"Le Bon Temps" Pocketwatch Winder
1774 Two Reales
1797 One Real
1831 Mexican Republic One Real
Four dateless Half Reales
1740, 1799, 1807, and 1811 Half Reales
1840-O Seated Half Dollar with MS details
1847-O Seated Quarter with AU-50 details
1838 Seated Dime
1840-O and 1853-O Seated Half Dimes
1824 Matron Head LC
Dateless Matron Head LC
Regiment of Artillery button (1811-1813)
1812 era Artillery button
One piece Eagle General Militia button(GI56)
1700s Navy Cuff Button
pre-CW Navy Cuff Button
GS Eagle Button
.31 cal. Brass Bullet Mold
1873, 186?, and 18?? Shield Nickels
1884 and 1905 V Nickels
1908-D Barber Dime
Trade Beads, Musketballs, Minieballs, etc.
Any relics, coins, or other items appearing in my finds signatures were found on PRIVATE PROPERTY with total consent and permission from the owners of said property.
I experimented with a gold hoop earring I recently bought. First checked with the ear post latched, got a gold signal. Then I unhooked the latch and tried again... no signal. Not sure what can be done about it...
I was going to say the same thing - the fact that the "ring" is broken will greatly diminish the signal. I'm not sure of the exact science behind it, but ring shaped objects tend to give an intensified signal. I've had strong signals that completely changed to lower (more easily discriminated-out) tones after I broke them in the hole with my digger. Also explains why certain washers and those thin copper rings that are prevalent around a lot of older sites in my area give off great tones. As a matter of fact, I got a tiny, ring shaped low conductor today that broke in the hole. It made no signal when I ran it over my coil, with no discrimination. But when I pressed it back together and ran it over, it rang in.
I wouldn't worry about what you may have missed; I bet if you could reconnect the ring it would fall into the acceptable area of your discrimination pattern.
Nice ring, I lowered my discrimination to below foil and found a nice gold and tiny diamond bracelet that came in at 17 on my fisher F75. Thats a foil reading on it. Makes me wonder what all I missed. GL and HH
Some detectors have ground surface elimination, not sure what kind you're using but this could also be a factor. The Garrett GTI 2500 has this option and you can set it to eliminate the 1st few inches.
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time to lower the discrimination on your detector 
One third jewelry of the World are under sand so far
Originally Posted by DrJoePrime
