DrJoePrime
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- Sep 9, 2007
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- Detector(s) used
- XP Deus, White's Surfmaster Dual Field, Tesoro Sand Shark, Garrett ATX
- Primary Interest:
- Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
Tibetan Saddle Ring...Silver!
Not a lot of targets at the beach yesterday. But still a nice time and especially nice to visit with my detecting buddy Dan while I detected one of our local beaches.
I had a forced hiatus of 7 days with no beach detecting due to being without a car...blown head gasket...expensive. I did get 4 hunts in those 7 days by walking to the local boating beach and lagoon beach which are fortunately close enough to back pack my XP Deus detector. But it was so great to see the ocean again.. finally... and to swing the Dual Field again!
After a few coins I did get something interesting. One of those .. not exactly what I want but more like what I need .. targets. Not very deep... something like 2" a strange ring a bit squashed. It was dark and my first thought was silver. But no marks at all. Really too fancy to be a junk ring.
The aluminum foil electrolysis at home confirmed the ID when it started to heat up. A bit of scrubbing with baking soda (I bought the 13-1/2 lb bag at Sam's Club) got it shiny as new.
Any opinions on age? Lots of interesting scroll work is making me think it's older.
UPDATE: Thsnks to my buddy Dan.. I learned that this is a Tibetan Saddle Ring. It weighs in at 16.6 grams...pretty heavy for a silver ring.
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Not a lot of targets at the beach yesterday. But still a nice time and especially nice to visit with my detecting buddy Dan while I detected one of our local beaches.
I had a forced hiatus of 7 days with no beach detecting due to being without a car...blown head gasket...expensive. I did get 4 hunts in those 7 days by walking to the local boating beach and lagoon beach which are fortunately close enough to back pack my XP Deus detector. But it was so great to see the ocean again.. finally... and to swing the Dual Field again!
After a few coins I did get something interesting. One of those .. not exactly what I want but more like what I need .. targets. Not very deep... something like 2" a strange ring a bit squashed. It was dark and my first thought was silver. But no marks at all. Really too fancy to be a junk ring.
The aluminum foil electrolysis at home confirmed the ID when it started to heat up. A bit of scrubbing with baking soda (I bought the 13-1/2 lb bag at Sam's Club) got it shiny as new.
Any opinions on age? Lots of interesting scroll work is making me think it's older.
UPDATE: Thsnks to my buddy Dan.. I learned that this is a Tibetan Saddle Ring. It weighs in at 16.6 grams...pretty heavy for a silver ring.
BEFORE
AFTER
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