Gold drought is over! First gold in over 5 years

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The millions of pull tabs I have been digging looking for gold ever since I got my ETrac finally paid off!! Thanks for Josh for putting me on my first gold in a long time!

Josh (Mangum) and I had to meet in Charlotte to buy prizes for a club hunt so we went to hunt a small yard he had permission to hunt before the rains came.

The first signal on the first swing came up just like a pull tab. He checked it with his MXT Pro and said "Might be a nickel". Well, imagine my surprise when I flipped the plug and saw a gold signet staring up at me! He thought I was playing with him when I almost shouted "I got gold!". I had to say it again to get him to believe me. There was some adhesive left from tape wrapped around the bottom of the ring.

The ring appears to be hand cast and has a TRIANGLE and STAR (Can't get picture of it) hallmark stamped under the signet with no carat marking. Does anyone know this mark??

The next signal turned out to be a 1951 D Roosevelt dime. In the end we ended up with 3 wheaties and the gold and silver from his friends yard.

We went to the coin shop and bought all the goodies for our club hunt and went back to the place he found his NC button last week. It was a mess from logging and skidders running everywhere.

I found my last silver in a skidder track at 1" deep. A 1923 Mercury. Josh got a wheatie.

Thanks again Josh for putting me on my first gold in a long time!!

 

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[thrillathahunt]

That's a beauty! An oldie too.

 

[Terry Soloman]

That is a beautiful gold ring! Congratulations on the super finds!!!

 

[BradVA]

Congratulations, cool looking ring!

 

[mangum]

Congrats Hardy! I'm glad I could put you on some gold! That is a stunning ring & will do great on the board. Yesterday was definitely your day. It was a fun one, I really enjoyed buying all that silver!

 

[mangum]

Here's the pic I took if you want it

 

[SusanMN]

Stunning old gold ring!

 

[pl8man]

Beautiful ring !

 

[Mudslide]

Terrific find!!!

 

[g-olden years]

CONGRATS ON LOVELY GOLD! My only gold in my two years of detecting came last month in an iron-infested, boulder-strewn tiny beach -- a wonderful heavy custom-made gold ring which I still can't believe I dug, lol. I'd forced myself to go back once again to dig that "nasty little beach" once more because I figured the other detectorists had given up on it. My ring had been under there for decades! Definitely it's where we find it, NOT where we WANT to find it. Hope you never have such a lengthy gold drought in the future! Andi

 

[kilmer]

Man, what a way to break the drought. That is awesome. I love the old style rings. Nice, thanks for sharing.

 

[mariposagold]

Fabulous Gold Ring.

Notice: If I go 5 years with no Gold, Please Shoot me.

 

[stewielouie]

Love those old rings, they do not make them like that anymore!! Congrats

 

[digger27]

5 years!
A huge congratZ!

 

[Pigstick]

Very nice!

 

[Silver Slayer]

Now thats what Im talking about! Shes a beauty

 

[Atomic Ed]

wow what cool finds and an exciting time

 

[ajaj]

Awesome find! Nice ring and what a thrill!

aj

 

[merideeanna]

That is SO awesome! I wanna find gold someday too!

 

[VERDE]

CONGRATS!! Great Find!! GOOD HUNTING!! VERDE!!