tnt-hunter
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- Apr 20, 2018
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- Fisher CZ-21, Minelab Equinix 800, ,Garret AT Pro,
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- All Treasure Hunting
Yesterday I had a chance to go back to campus for a short 3 hour hunt. I decided to grid the area between the pole vault path and the track around the football field since it was close to where I found the gold ring last time. I have walked over this section a number of times and cherry picked coin signals finding a lot of clad and some silver jewelry, but I decided it was time to clean it up. I was digging all the mid and high tones so I was finding tabs and can slaw. The coin count was low at 25 and the value was only $.82, but I did manage to find some nice jewelry. I found an old spark plug, but I can’t find one like it on line. Anyone who can give me info about it please chime in. I really know very little about engines. I also found a broken Boy Scout bolo tie front, the crustiest copper jacket bullet I have ever seen, a broken 10-4 pendant and some jewelry.
Silver usually registers as a high tone like a coin and the low tones are usually ferrous metal on the CZ21. My first jewelry was not a high tone. It was a mixed mid and low tone. Since I was cleaning up I dug it up. The reason for the mixed signal was mixed metals. The pendant part of the earring is ferrous and the wire is silver marked 925.
A little while later I got the same signal again. So I think maybe another one, but no it was a different earring. Actually it turned out to be a pair of silver earring with the backs still on. The back on one is ferrous and almost rusted off, the other one is aluminum. I guess if you loose your good earring backs you use whatever you can find.
Then I found a pendant. I had just dug up about 12 pieces of can slaw from a Pepsi can. So the small weak mid tone I thought was another small piece of slaw was the silver mounted on the quartz heart. At one time it had an oval stone mounted on the front. You can see the glue that was used to hold it in the silver oval on the front. It is marked 925 and the marking is inside the bail.
I was lucky enough to find 2 rings. The first was a mid tone and turned out to be a slightly squashed copper name ring that belonged to CHUCK.
The second one gave a nice high tone and is a beautiful ornate silver ring marked STERLING. It is a child size ring and has what looks like crudely engraved initials inside. To me it looks like KAT with a little squiggle in front. (squiggle might be a cursive J) It is not a professional job and I could be reading it wrong. From the style of the ring I would say it has been around for awhile.
So in the past 2 hunts on campus the coin bank has been on holiday and the jewelry store has been open. Hopefully the streak will continue.
Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things.
For those who like them here are some dirty pictures.
Silver usually registers as a high tone like a coin and the low tones are usually ferrous metal on the CZ21. My first jewelry was not a high tone. It was a mixed mid and low tone. Since I was cleaning up I dug it up. The reason for the mixed signal was mixed metals. The pendant part of the earring is ferrous and the wire is silver marked 925.
A little while later I got the same signal again. So I think maybe another one, but no it was a different earring. Actually it turned out to be a pair of silver earring with the backs still on. The back on one is ferrous and almost rusted off, the other one is aluminum. I guess if you loose your good earring backs you use whatever you can find.
Then I found a pendant. I had just dug up about 12 pieces of can slaw from a Pepsi can. So the small weak mid tone I thought was another small piece of slaw was the silver mounted on the quartz heart. At one time it had an oval stone mounted on the front. You can see the glue that was used to hold it in the silver oval on the front. It is marked 925 and the marking is inside the bail.
I was lucky enough to find 2 rings. The first was a mid tone and turned out to be a slightly squashed copper name ring that belonged to CHUCK.
The second one gave a nice high tone and is a beautiful ornate silver ring marked STERLING. It is a child size ring and has what looks like crudely engraved initials inside. To me it looks like KAT with a little squiggle in front. (squiggle might be a cursive J) It is not a professional job and I could be reading it wrong. From the style of the ring I would say it has been around for awhile.
So in the past 2 hunts on campus the coin bank has been on holiday and the jewelry store has been open. Hopefully the streak will continue.
Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things.
For those who like them here are some dirty pictures.
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