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First Gold Ring fulfills New Year's Resolution
First gold ring today, which is brilliant since my new year's resolution was to switch from shooting silver coins, clads and silver jewelry to hunting for gold, and if possible, find some things from the 19th century . This would entail opening myself up to digging those lower signals, which is kind of hard for me to do psychologically when I've been digging up only coin signals for the most part since starting this hobby over a year ago.
I'd made a good start on finding older stuff already, I'd found an 1890 Indian head, my oldest coin, and an 1880's Frederick Stearns bottle - my oldest find - and a glass telephone pole insulator earlier this month. That was very novel for me, and actually, for anyone in the Miami area. Finds from the 19th century are rare indeed in these parts. I was able to find the IH because I was willing to dig a zinc signal, which I would not have done last year. Not that I ever expected an IH, no way down here in Miami. But there it was. And by digging a fairly deep (for Miami) bottle-cap signal I found a 1942 Lone Ranger Victory Corps pin - and anything Lone Ranger is good for me, I was a big 5 year old fan in 1958.
Amyway, i had a hankering after I ran to the post office today to play with my new "lucky" detector, an Eagle Spectrum, for a half hour at a local park. I had decided it was lucky when I found a big honking silver Christ pendant New Year's day, the first hunt I'd taken it on.
I dug up a little trash by the walkway, and decided to move deeper onto the soccer field where I figured less trash, more good targets. I picked a spot at random, swung the detector and got a pulltab signal. Da-dum! This ring comes out of the rootball. At first, when I saw the open band i thought it was a toy ring, though the perfect gold surface was impressive, and that had me puzzled. Then I saw that the band was broken, not made that way, and I spied the 14kt stamp.
That was it, I left. I'd been there all of 15 minutes maybe. The good thing about the band being broken, besides that I can get it on my pinky and then make it tighter, is that I can see good gold metal all the way through the band. It weighs .1580 oz; as scrap 14 kt gold its worth $140.60 today.
The band may have been clipped by a mower blade. The ring may be South American.
all my finds today
First gold ring today, which is brilliant since my new year's resolution was to switch from shooting silver coins, clads and silver jewelry to hunting for gold, and if possible, find some things from the 19th century . This would entail opening myself up to digging those lower signals, which is kind of hard for me to do psychologically when I've been digging up only coin signals for the most part since starting this hobby over a year ago.
I'd made a good start on finding older stuff already, I'd found an 1890 Indian head, my oldest coin, and an 1880's Frederick Stearns bottle - my oldest find - and a glass telephone pole insulator earlier this month. That was very novel for me, and actually, for anyone in the Miami area. Finds from the 19th century are rare indeed in these parts. I was able to find the IH because I was willing to dig a zinc signal, which I would not have done last year. Not that I ever expected an IH, no way down here in Miami. But there it was. And by digging a fairly deep (for Miami) bottle-cap signal I found a 1942 Lone Ranger Victory Corps pin - and anything Lone Ranger is good for me, I was a big 5 year old fan in 1958.
Amyway, i had a hankering after I ran to the post office today to play with my new "lucky" detector, an Eagle Spectrum, for a half hour at a local park. I had decided it was lucky when I found a big honking silver Christ pendant New Year's day, the first hunt I'd taken it on.
I dug up a little trash by the walkway, and decided to move deeper onto the soccer field where I figured less trash, more good targets. I picked a spot at random, swung the detector and got a pulltab signal. Da-dum! This ring comes out of the rootball. At first, when I saw the open band i thought it was a toy ring, though the perfect gold surface was impressive, and that had me puzzled. Then I saw that the band was broken, not made that way, and I spied the 14kt stamp.
That was it, I left. I'd been there all of 15 minutes maybe. The good thing about the band being broken, besides that I can get it on my pinky and then make it tighter, is that I can see good gold metal all the way through the band. It weighs .1580 oz; as scrap 14 kt gold its worth $140.60 today.
The band may have been clipped by a mower blade. The ring may be South American.
all my finds today
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congrats on the ring
