BIG Silver Ring

DiggingNC

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Apr 23, 2006
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Well, my wife had an outpatient surgery yesterday so I have been nursemaid for a couple of days. She was feeling alot better today, so I decided to go out for an hour to a school football field. I looked around the parking area for bit and found a few clad coins and a junk earring. I decided to go out onto the football field. I started through the gate and was starting on the sideline. I got a couple of clad pennies and a clad quarter. I filled the hole from the quarter and got a piece of a aluminum can. As I rechecked the hole from the can I got what I thought was another quarter signal about a foot away. I filled the hole from the can, and was digging for (what I thought was) the quarter. The sun had went down behind the trees and the lighting was poor. Well, to my surprise when I turned over the plug, I saw silver. I pulled it out, and there was a plug of dirt. I pushed the dirt out of the plug and was greeted with a beautiful, large, silver FFA ring. I was elated! I didn't have a camera with me, so I was unable to get a pic in the dirt. But here is this beauty cleaned up a bit. There is no name on it. Inside the band it reads, "Balfour Sterling" The weight was 17.2 g. Thanks for looking. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
 

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CRUSADER

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Very Nice!

What does FFA stand for?
 

Srhoads

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Future farmers of America.

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pl8man

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Great find ! I found one last year but yours looks to be in great condition ! My is very worn . Congrats
Glen
 

davehky

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Nice looking silver ring! Congrats :)
 

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DiggingNC

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Apr 23, 2006
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Minelab E-Trac, Garrett ProPointer, SunRay Pro Gold Headphones. Previousdetectors were White's, Garrett's and others.
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Thanks for all the comments.
 

jewelerguy

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excellent ring! probably dates to the 1950's
 

nov2101

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Good that you double cheked... nice find
 

okerraine

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I bet it blew your ears off! Congrats
 

leprechaun

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That one's a beauty.:icon_thumleft:
 

JRIVER20

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Aug 5, 2012
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DiggingNC said:
Well, my wife had an outpatient surgery yesterday so I have been nursemaid for a couple of days. She was feeling alot better today, so I decided to go out for an hour to a school football field. I looked around the parking area for bit and found a few clad coins and a junk earring. I decided to go out onto the football field. I started through the gate and was starting on the sideline. I got a couple of clad pennies and a clad quarter. I filled the hole from the quarter and got a piece of a aluminum can. As I rechecked the hole from the can I got what I thought was another quarter signal about a foot away. I filled the hole from the can, and was digging for (what I thought was) the quarter. The sun had went down behind the trees and the lighting was poor. Well, to my surprise when I turned over the plug, I saw silver. I pulled it out, and there was a plug of dirt. I pushed the dirt out of the plug and was greeted with a beautiful, large, silver FFA ring. I was elated! I didn't have a camera with me, so I was unable to get a pic in the dirt. But here is this beauty cleaned up a bit. There is no name on it. Inside the band it reads, "Balfour Sterling" The weight was 17.2 g. Thanks for looking. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Wow that is a nice finding! I was a member of the FFA back in puerto Rico. I got to win contest but never knew they had a silver ring. Wow very nice!
 

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