BOOM! Diamond Solitaire!!

[BuckleBoy]

Hello All,

I'm SO stoked! Every year my wife and I spend a week at the beach and of course I do what I do best--DIG! So it's a little early for the bulk of the tourists to get there but it was really relaxed and nice! The first two nights I got into some coin spots and dug and dug (I'll maybe add the coins to this post later on, but I dug my butt off!). The third night I got into a spot that had a lot of heavy iron and some lead sinkers. I spent most of my time there clearing it out hoping for gold, but there was no gold to be found. The last night I hit some cuts where the sand had been removed. While the tide went out I hit the first beach then got into the water. Getting down to the second beach I battled the waves for a while as the tide finished receeding, then worked my way back up the beach in reverse fashion to hit the first cut. Digging a couple pieces of deep iron and an earring, I circled around and got a dime. Then following back up the cut around 11pm, I popped out a DIAMOND SOLITAIRE! I just said "no f#$%^ way" and as soon as I saw the 14K mark I knew it was real!

This is the best gold ring I've dug in my 30 years in the hobby.

Cheers,

Buck

 

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[stewielouie]

Nice one. Those things will get you hooked on water hunting for sure.

 

[billb]

Congratulations on your beautiful recovery..well done

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Great find, so BB, did the better half lay claim to it? My wife gets first claim on all my finds, she took 6 of my 7 diamond ring finds, the 7th was a man's diamond ring.

Again great find, got to love those gold rings shining in the scoop....

 

[TheInspector]

Two thoughts.
Congrats on the diamond ring find. That always feels good.
I have been in awe of your relic finds for years and I am blown away that I am ahead of you in the diamond ring category.
The 7 diamond ring in my avatar is worn almost daily by my wife. I would estimate I have found around 15 to 20 total in the last 30 years of occasional detecting, not counting 3 or 4 wedding bands that have been found upon request for couples when they saw me detecting at the beach.

 

[Elvis]

Wow!!! Awesome find!!! Congrats!!

 

[crashbandicoot]

Really nice and pretty!Congrats.

 

[oldmxrat]

Man oh man, nice ice! Congrats!

 

[SusanMN]

Nothing more beautiful or a bigger rush than diamonds in your scoop.

 

[CASPER-2]

Just an FYI ... been water hunting over 25 yrs
for every 14k ive gotten with a real diamond - have almost as many with a CZ or fakes in them
QVC and other shows will sell actual 10k (ive gotten many 14Ks too) with fake stones
this is 10k found at my town beach - has fake stones - if real it would probably be a $50,000 ring

Congrats on yours - looks good - if you are really gonna get into waterhunting more - get yourself a diamond/precious stone tester
Continued great luck

 

[Hunk-a-lead]

beauty, big time gratz

 

[BuckleBoy]

Just an FYI ... been water hunting over 25 yrs
for every 14k ive gotten with a real diamond - have almost as many with a CZ or fakes in them
QVC and other shows will sell actual 10k (ive gotten many 14Ks too) with fake stones
this is 10k found at my town beach - has fake stones - if real it would probably be a $50,000 ring

Congrats on yours - looks good - if you are really gonna get into waterhunting more - get yourself a diamond/precious stone tester
Continued great luck

Hi Casper,

thanks so much for the excellent info in your reply! What brand of Diamond tester do you recommend?

 

[CASPER-2]

Go on the Beach detecting forum and ask there
you got the money - get one that does diamonds and other precious stones too
my GF got me mine and it is towards the lower end but does the job - there's as many out there
as there are detectors

 

[ToddsPoint]

Just think of all the tears shed by women that lost their diamond ring at the beach.(and a few men) Along the Atlantic, I'd bet there's more diamond rings in the sand than most jewelry stores have. Great find! Go back for another! Gary

 

[CASPER-2]

you will find an older article i did on Fake jewelry finds here
https://www.flickr.com/photos/casper-2

and more than a few others if you are going to get into water more
some may help you ...others may inspire

 

[CASPER-2]

There are 2 articles on returns here too
https://www.flickr.com/photos/casper-2

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

FANTASTIC !!!

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

BB, get one that tells if it is true diamond or synthetic moissanite, as some diamond testers can't tell the difference between genuine and synthetic.

https://detectorreviews.co.uk/diamond-testers/

 

[Digger RJ]

Very Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Great find Buckleboy. This is not a typical post for you, I'm use to opening your thread and seeing all those Seated coins ! When I saw your title, I just had to look.