🏆 HONORABLE MENTION Hunting Nickels Has A Benefit...Gold!

pepperj · May 1, 2015

Gee I had to go back and see if it was true-yes it was, congrats OD on the gold and is a bonus finding the ring, and getting a silver isn't half bad either.

Carolina Tom · May 1, 2015

Very well done OD! That is a really sweet find. Jelly.

Scrappy · May 1, 2015

Nice Dude. I never found a class ring. When I dig nickel signals I get nickels(sometimes). Lol.

Great hunt and I'm glad to hear people aren't getting scared away by Chris as much when you guys door knock. Lol

bill from lachine · May 1, 2015

OD,

Good score on the gold ring....a bit of toothpaste and an old brush should remove the staining nicely.

Regards + HH

Bill

cjon455 · May 1, 2015

Scrappy said:
Nice Dude. I never found a class ring. When I dig nickel signals I get nickels(sometimes). Lol.

Great hunt and I'm glad to hear people aren't getting scared away by Chris as much when you guys door knock. Lol

Well, I don't think im that unattractive lol!!

Old Dude · May 1, 2015

deershed said:
Now that's a Sweet find!!
Congrats on the gold and your third class ring!! I'm still looking my first class ring but, I at least have one gold ring to my credit.
Unlike you I was out today looking for gold and not a war nickel. Lol
I was digging the low tones and found me a few nickels in the process, 3 to be exact and all three came from one hole.
I got a pocket spill of buffalo's with a silver in the mix.
I think my next hunt I'll concentrate on pull tabs and see what I find, maybe pull tabs and nickels both....

Congrats again and Good Luck on that war nickel!!

Thank you Ds! Great job on that spill!

Ahab8 said:
Easy OD! Leave some gold for the rest of us buddy. I for one am goldless. Great job buddy. We all know it's a pain to dig everything but my theory is that if you dig everything your entire career you will no doubt end up with a handful of gold items. I hope just once I find some colonial gold. Is that too much to ask for?

Abe, I highly doubt a 20th century find has you feeling lacking in any way lol!

trdking said:
Not sure if I have told you but…. I LOVE GOOOOOOLD!!!!!!!

Now that is odd...that is exactly what the other half said when I got home.

CoinandRelicMan said:
Nice class ring save there Old Dude , not sure what else a flat button reads out like, would it be close to a partly ate zinc cent ??

CRM, I am sure the size and material will affect the reading, but the last few 1800's small brass ones have been in the 60's on the ATP.

Nepa-Will said:
Way to go OD. Great way to come out of my our slump. Wish I was able to get out with you and Cjon, but I was broke down in the work truck on 309. Just wanted you to know. Ever since a little birdie told me about your War Nickel problem. I have been finding them at all my sites. Seems as if that same little birdie is doing some war nickel voodoo on you. Just saying.
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Will, I Suspect that little birdie is the same one that was texting you while you were broken down lol.

pepperj said:
Gee I had to go back and see if it was true-yes it was, congrats OD on the gold and is a bonus finding the ring, and getting a silver isn't half bad either.

PJ, I hate to admit it, but finding that lonely silver doubled my silver count for the year!

Carolina Tom said:
Very well done OD! That is a really sweet find. Jelly.

Tom, it isn't the well earned silver that you guys in Carolina cherish and seek, but it will suffice lol.

Scrappy said:
Nice Dude. I never found a class ring. When I dig nickel signals I get nickels(

Great hunt and I'm glad to hear people aren't getting scared away by Chris as much when you guys door knock. Lol

Scraps, I have had a positive influence on the young man. He now owns a hairbrush and a luffa for bathing. Now if I could teach him to iron...

cjon455 · May 1, 2015

Old Dude said:
Scraps, I have had a positive influence on the young man. He now owns a hairbrush and a luffa for bathing. Now if I could teach him to iron...

Bill D. (VA) · May 1, 2015

Nice haul man! Love the ring - been a while since I dug one of those. And BTW - if your birth year was '62 then you're not an "old dude". Not even close ..... :laughing7:

Old Dude · May 1, 2015

Bill D. (VA) said:
Nice haul man! Love the ring - been a while since I dug one of those. And BTW - if your birth year was '62 then you're not an "old dude". Not even close .....

Bill, colonial class rings are more scarce than hen's teeth! When asked before about why I chose " Old Dude ", I explained " middle aged dude " didn't have the same ring, and since I plan on still doing this when the name fits...well, you get the picture lol. Thanks!

WHADIFIND · May 1, 2015

Bill D. (VA) said:
Nice haul man! Love the ring - been a while since I dug one of those. And BTW - if your birth year was '62 then you're not an "old dude". Not even close .....

Not true, "old" is NOT a number. It depends on what one does with life.
I've known some VERY old "youngsters".

cjon455 · May 1, 2015

WHADIFIND said:
Not true, "old" is NOT a number. It depends on what one does with life.
I've known some VERY old "youngsters".

I'm pretty sure I was born in the wrong era lol, my friends my age (36) think I'm nerdy for my hobby, well they are just boring dudes who work/eat/sleep/ lather, rinse repeat, I've been at this 2 and a half years and freakin love it, nothing like digging up history!

Old Dude · May 1, 2015

***Update***
Just got off the phone with the gentleman who the ring belonged to. His old girl friend " lost " the ring many years ago he said. I could hear in his voice how surprised he is and appreciative. We are meeting next week so I can return it. It's a very good feeling to get to do this again. Now I can post this " cleaned " pic lol.

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Nepa-Will · May 1, 2015

Great job finding the owner. Bravo!

cjon455 · May 1, 2015

geez, I need to put my sunglasses on to view that pic of the ring all cleaned up!! 8-)

Goldiver · May 1, 2015

Nice chunk of gold!

Steve

deershed · May 1, 2015

Awesome you found the owner and a return is in the works, sounds like a "Honorable Mention".

You the Man, well done!!

Davers · May 2, 2015

Yep .
Sometimes it helps to dig almost everything.
3 rd Class Ring Huh.
Never found one myself , Def on the playlist for the Gig in the Sky,.."GIS"

Crazy took 2 diff, friends to a local lake on 2 diff, occasions while Detecting & both Eyeballed One.
Those 2 occasions still 'Ill ' me. LOL "Not really LOL"

Old Dude · May 2, 2015

Nepa-Will said:
Great job finding the owner. Bravo!

Thanks Will. This one wasn't too bad. There was a number posted for a couple ladies that are doing the reunion committee thing for this class and school. One of them helped me with matching the initials to a name, and from there I just had to do a little online searching.

cjon455 said:
geez, I need to put my sunglasses on to view that pic of the ring all cleaned up!!

Lol, Chris. I admit I did a little tweaking with the lighting and definition of the pic, but I can guarantee you that the ring is in much better shape having been lost all this time than it would have been had he been wearing it the last 40+ years.

Goldiver said:
Nice chunk of gold!

Steve

Yes sir it is. Chris kept telling me that and wanting to hold it all the way home lol!

deershed said:
Awesome you found the owner and a return is in the works, sounds like a "Honorable Mention".

You the Man, well done!!

Thanks Ds! This will be my second class ring return. I just wish I had been able to do the other also.

Davers said:
Yep .
Sometimes it helps to dig almost everything.
3 rd Class Ring Huh.
Never found one myself , Def on the playlist for the Gig in the Sky,.."GIS"

Crazy took 2 diff, friends to a local lake on 2 diff, occasions while Detecting & both Eyeballed One.
Those 2 occasions still 'Ill ' me. LOL "Not really LOL"

Davers, I have dug more beaver tails and pull tabs in the last month than all of last year probably. True story ~ I dug my second class ring while I was waiting on the owner of the first one to call me so we could set up a meeting for the return!