Cal_Cobra
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GOLD!!
The sun decided to make a rare appearance for a few minutes a couple of days ago
so decided to get out for a short hunt at a park behind my house and test out a jewelery program I made on my F75 LTD, and I found this chunky 2 gram 14K gold earring (I've found gold rings that weighed less):
This morning I met up with Jim (time4me) at a SF park. I was working my way around a big old tree, and got a good solid sounding, repeatable zinc penny signal (also came in as a zinc on Jim's E-Trac when we tested it). Usually on my machine if a zinc has been in the ground for any amount of time, it's bouncy, especially the more corroded it gets, so I thought it had a good chance at being a wheat or even an injun, so I decided to dig it up, but instead of a penny out pops this beauty
It's not marked, but it looked to have a high karat content and with the Chinese or Japanese signet, I figured it had a good chance at being 18K, 22K or 24K. When I got it home, I first tested it with the 18K acid test and it passed with flying colors, then hit it with the 22K test and again passed with flying colors
Unfortunately I don't have a 24K test, but I suspect there's a good chance it is. It weights in a just slightly under 7 grams.
So seateds were not in the cards this weekend
but if I have to suffer with gold instead, I think I can live with that 
Jim found a nice 1906 Barber dime, which was a great find at a hard to hunt park (clad was turning up at 8-10" 
Thanks for looking and H.H.,
Brian
The sun decided to make a rare appearance for a few minutes a couple of days ago
so decided to get out for a short hunt at a park behind my house and test out a jewelery program I made on my F75 LTD, and I found this chunky 2 gram 14K gold earring (I've found gold rings that weighed less):
This morning I met up with Jim (time4me) at a SF park. I was working my way around a big old tree, and got a good solid sounding, repeatable zinc penny signal (also came in as a zinc on Jim's E-Trac when we tested it). Usually on my machine if a zinc has been in the ground for any amount of time, it's bouncy, especially the more corroded it gets, so I thought it had a good chance at being a wheat or even an injun, so I decided to dig it up, but instead of a penny out pops this beauty
It's not marked, but it looked to have a high karat content and with the Chinese or Japanese signet, I figured it had a good chance at being 18K, 22K or 24K. When I got it home, I first tested it with the 18K acid test and it passed with flying colors, then hit it with the 22K test and again passed with flying colors
Unfortunately I don't have a 24K test, but I suspect there's a good chance it is. It weights in a just slightly under 7 grams. So seateds were not in the cards this weekend
but if I have to suffer with gold instead, I think I can live with that Jim found a nice 1906 Barber dime, which was a great find at a hard to hunt park (clad was turning up at 8-10" Thanks for looking and H.H.,
Brian
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