Another Short Sidewalk Tear Out Hunt | Cool Vintage Ring + Silver

Loomis · Jul 8, 2015

Been working a sidewalk tear out for a good week now and after the holiday they are now doing work again. Didn't get much but I'm happy with anything, beats parks / begging for permissions any day. I did run into some trouble though as i forgot to bring my headset this time and the beeping must of gotten to this older lady, she comes out on her porch and says, "Why you been doin' dat beepin' **** all day"(I was there for an hour tops). Long story short I had to explain that it was public right of way yadda yadda and it wasn't her property. In the end she lightened up and started asking question about the hobby. At least she didn't call the cops so i guess i diffused the situation as best as i could.

On top of my posted pic's of my best finds i also found 9 wheat pennies ranging from oldest 1912 to 1955, 1 wheat is so beat I can't grab a date off it just yet. The ring below I have had a hard time ID'ing so maybe the community has an idea on what that mint mark says. Cool ring though, seems pretty vintage, I'm guessing 40's-60's. It's 20.4 grams.

Argentium · Jul 8, 2015

Wow , nice hunt ! The ring obviously is made in Mexico , and I'm guessing more on the 60's side of your date range from
the style of it . I cant make out the center hallmark in your pic -which might pin down the dating a bit . The coins look like
they were dropped the month they were minted .

Loomis · Jul 8, 2015

Argentium said:
Wow , nice hunt ! The ring obviously is made in Mexico , and I'm guessing more on the 60's side of your date range from
the style of it . I cant make out the center hallmark in your pic -which might pin down the dating a bit . The coins look like
they were dropped the month they were minted .

Yeah that mint mark pic is the best I could do with my phone sadly

. The silver is in great shape, I agree, most of the very few silver coins I've collected since I started the hobby in march have always been in great shape, no complaints there lol. I'm going back to see what new sections they've dug up. I also asked the workers if they could park the excavator on the street and not on the freshly uncovered dirt(That's what they have been doing since the beginning, it really kills my total finds I think since I can't go even a foot from the thing without getting un-huntable falsing. The guys didn't have a problem with my request so I guess we'll see tonight! Thanks for checking out my hunt.

Argentium · Jul 9, 2015

There is something so exciting about sidewalk tear out hunts - basically you are exposed to a time capsule - in most cases
dirt that has never been looked at by a detector . Hope you can grab some more !

sutphin · Jul 9, 2015

DOC LOOMIS, BOY COINS AND RING , IS IT GOLD OR SILVER OR IS IT PLAIN ? FROM THE LOOKS OF IT A VERY NICE FIND , FOR ON THE FACE OF IT A VERY COOL LOOKING COMPASS DESIGN. NEAT..............