Cross My (Half) Heart,...I Think I Found My Second Gold Ring In A Week!

[Subterranean]

Greetings TNetters! I dug a few new parks in a city about an hour from my house. They were new-to-me and loaded me down with clad, for which I am thankful. (About $12.00 worth!) A grassy area next to a basketball court gave up the cool alloy-metal cross still on the pukka shell necklace. Haven't seen one of those since I used to wear one in the late 1970's!



On the way back home, I stopped in to a local school playground in the late afternoon. I dug up the "Half a BFF heart" pendant, and while trolling the bark in the tot lot, I swung under a tree and got a solid, repeating 63 VDI on the ATPro. I looked down to see a glint of golden yellow hiding in the bark. Inspection revealed a really pretty, wide but thin, gold band. It is marked on the inside in block Roman (?) letters, "Solid (Maltese Cross) Gold." It weighed in at an exact 3 grams. It looks like a small wedding band.



If any of my esteemed TNet friends could explain the hallmark to me, It would be much appreciated. It kind of looks like a very old hallmark or one made to look like it is old? Thanks for looking, I wish you all happy hunting this weekend! Sub

 

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[l2hunt]

congrats on the nice gold.

 

[A2coins]

Great job sub!!!!!!Good to see good people making great finds!!!!!!

 

[mikeraydj]

That is the first time I have seen a ring marked solid gold. Congrats!

 

[Qball]

great find! dig the lows. Be excellent.

 

[against the wind]

Sweet Gold Sub,,
You're on a roll.
Congratulations

 

[ScubaDetector]

I have only seen solid gold once. It was 14K. Hope yours is that or higher. Very nice old ring congrats

 

[Chizzy]

2017 must be your "Year of Gold", Sub...........congrats and keep the prospecting vibes goin'!!

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on the gold and other finds

 

[sprailroad]

Interesting, I've never seen a ring marked "solid gold", my thought would be 24k, which I understand would be to soft for a ring, but there it is marked inside yours, a heart stopper! If you test it for purity, I would sure like to know. That is a great find.

 

[ScubaDetector]

Interesting, I've never seen a ring marked "solid gold", my thought would be 24k, which I understand would be to soft for a ring, but there it is marked inside yours, a heart stopper! If you test it for purity, I would sure like to know. That is a great find.

The color is off for 24K. This is a very old marking. Any gold 10K and over was considered gold in the USA. Not pure gold. Solid Gold. I also would like to know what he snagged. Hope he can have it tested and give us an update.

 

[park pirate]

That's a nice one congrats....

 

[Wildcat1750]

Congratulations, that's a nice looking ring!

 

[Carolina Tom]

Well done Lance!

I hope that ring turns out to be 14K or higher. It looks good in the pic!

Best of luck to you!

 

[dsdigger]

Congrats on the finds, nice ring!

 

[White Wolf]

Congrats!!! The cross and the ring are both sweet finds!!!!

 

[deershed]

Congrats on some nice finds!! That ring is Sweet gold or not but, I'm betting it's the real deal and that's Awesome!!

 

[Loco-Digger]

Nice digs sub, my fingers are crossed that that test's out to be real.

 

[Jamie1993]

Congrats on the Gold ring and your other find. Nothing sweeter than hearing a mid tone and seeing yellow.

 

[MackinawGirl]

Saweeeeet Find !