Boobydoo
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Hello again to you all!
Another beautiful Michigan day, got out and hit two schools that I have never hunted. Yep, two diamond rings today. More about that later. Got some more goodies too, happy days!!
I took the old trustie Garrett TR out to cover school playground woodchips. The first school had a lot of play areas, structures, swings, and slides. I was getting quite a few signals and lots of coins and jewelry, a pouch full. Around one of the play structures I found a sweet earring hallmarked 925 and it was 15 CZ stones. Nice start. While I was walking between one of the woodchip areas, I always keep the detector scanning, I hit a nice pocket spill. So I was digging the coins out of the grass and then scanning around that area making sure I had found all the coins and on one of the signals, a sweet 10kt gold ring popped out. It's a kids ring, pretty small and has 3 diamond chips in it too. YES!! Gold! Dumb luck huh. I covered all the woodchip areas and had no more keepers so I drove to the next school.
At this school, there were only a few play areas as it was under construction on half the playground. In the first area, a set of swings, I dug a sweet earring. It's a double CC design with lots of white stones. I though it was a Coach earring and my 16 year old daughter is totally into Coach purses and everything so I was pumped. After I showed it to her she clued me in, it's a Chanel earring. I looked it up on eBay and a pair of them are selling for $250 to $350! It's gold plated over sterling. I moved on and covered the rest of the areas. During that time, I found a pair of Sterling hoop earings cinched together. A rare find, a "Pair" of earrings. The very last area was a set of swings, directly under the second the last swing, a sweet sight, out pops a diamond solitare ring, whoohoo! Also, right on top of it, actually touching the ring was a junk trinket earring. What are the chances, both things being lost in the same square inch. The diamond is not huge, but a nice little stone measuring 3mm across and sparkles big time. The ring is 18kt and very dainty, definitely a womens ring, about size 7.
What a great day it was. 4 hours search time total, $7.05 total clad, 157 coins, a lot of pennies. I found a lot of trinket jewelry. A nice little Turtle bracelet, 4 other junk rings, 9 junk pendants, and 4 other junk earrings. My back is feeling better too this weekend so I took all my treasures and headed home. There are 4 more schools in that area to hit, but there is always another day.
Here's some photos of today's finds. Thanks for reading and best of luck to you all! HH!!
Smiles!
BDoo
Another beautiful Michigan day, got out and hit two schools that I have never hunted. Yep, two diamond rings today. More about that later. Got some more goodies too, happy days!!
I took the old trustie Garrett TR out to cover school playground woodchips. The first school had a lot of play areas, structures, swings, and slides. I was getting quite a few signals and lots of coins and jewelry, a pouch full. Around one of the play structures I found a sweet earring hallmarked 925 and it was 15 CZ stones. Nice start. While I was walking between one of the woodchip areas, I always keep the detector scanning, I hit a nice pocket spill. So I was digging the coins out of the grass and then scanning around that area making sure I had found all the coins and on one of the signals, a sweet 10kt gold ring popped out. It's a kids ring, pretty small and has 3 diamond chips in it too. YES!! Gold! Dumb luck huh. I covered all the woodchip areas and had no more keepers so I drove to the next school.
At this school, there were only a few play areas as it was under construction on half the playground. In the first area, a set of swings, I dug a sweet earring. It's a double CC design with lots of white stones. I though it was a Coach earring and my 16 year old daughter is totally into Coach purses and everything so I was pumped. After I showed it to her she clued me in, it's a Chanel earring. I looked it up on eBay and a pair of them are selling for $250 to $350! It's gold plated over sterling. I moved on and covered the rest of the areas. During that time, I found a pair of Sterling hoop earings cinched together. A rare find, a "Pair" of earrings. The very last area was a set of swings, directly under the second the last swing, a sweet sight, out pops a diamond solitare ring, whoohoo! Also, right on top of it, actually touching the ring was a junk trinket earring. What are the chances, both things being lost in the same square inch. The diamond is not huge, but a nice little stone measuring 3mm across and sparkles big time. The ring is 18kt and very dainty, definitely a womens ring, about size 7.
What a great day it was. 4 hours search time total, $7.05 total clad, 157 coins, a lot of pennies. I found a lot of trinket jewelry. A nice little Turtle bracelet, 4 other junk rings, 9 junk pendants, and 4 other junk earrings. My back is feeling better too this weekend so I took all my treasures and headed home. There are 4 more schools in that area to hit, but there is always another day.
Here's some photos of today's finds. Thanks for reading and best of luck to you all! HH!!
Smiles!
BDoo
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WTG Ear ring are not usually found in pairs. That alone is rare. I am glad for you.Thanks for sharing your finds. H.H.
You found all that loot in one day? Detecting playground woodchip piles must be like shooting fish in a barrell. Man, I never should have moved from Michigan, way to go. That's a great days work, congrats.
