Frozen Ground Yields Tiny Silver Ring

[jp4077]

Today I took my new White's VX3 out to Belmont Lake State Park and played around in the Coin and Jewelry program. I worked in one area for a couple of hours and was able to dig a good handful of clad coins. When I moved to the grassy area in the back of the park, I started hitting some frozen patches of ground. I had a couple of coin hits in the 4-5 inch range that I had to pass up on because the ground was to frozen to dig. Well, I finally came to a spot where the machine said it was a zinc penny at 1 1/2 inches but it was in frozen ground. So I gave it a shot and tried to dig the coin out. I was able to dig it out but barely. If it was deeper I would've had to let it go. It turned out to be a small silver ring instead of a coin and I'm glad I was able to dig it out. It's the first ring with my VX3. Because of the force I had to apply to the digger to cut through the frozen ground, I dinged it a little as you can see if you look at the posted picture. I still went away a happy man with the silver piece. I'm really liking the new VX3 after using a DFX for all these years.
Have a look. You can see it's size compared to a dime.

 

[Terry Soloman]

Nice find Joe!

 

[weregolf]

A very good hit for the Vx

 

[jp4077]

Thanks Terry. 1st with the new machine. That's the park where we get the permits.

 

[jp4077]

Thanks weregolf. Only had the machine for 2 whole weeks.

 

[against the wind]

Nice score,
Congratulations

 

[jp4077]

Thanks AtW.

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on the ring

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congratualtions on the nice silver ring!

 

[UnderMiner]

That's a good detector you got! Maybe a ring for a baby, that thing is tiny!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Nice looking ring.

 

[jp4077]

Thanks for the nice comments and thanks for looking, Professor, trapperart, UnderMiner,and Trezurhunter. Let's hope we can get some more digging days before the real deep freeze sets in.

 

[treblehunter]

Good find, bet your glad you dug in the ice?

 

[jp4077]

Good find, bet your glad you dug in the ice?

It wasn't ice. It was frozen turf. It was only down 1 1/2" so I had to give it a shot. And yes I'm glad I gave it a shot.

 

[deershed]

Congrats on the ring!! Glad this hit was only 1 1/2" and not 4".