Batch
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Hello all,
Below is the result of yesterday's hunt at the recently drained local village lake. Found two rings (one sterling, one 14k), the box link necklace, and an assortment of other "treasures". Of course I dug pound of beer bottle caps in the process! The trash is pretty dense and masks a bunch of the targets so I just started digging everything that wasn't iron...and still ended up with a lot of nails. At times I'd pull 3-4 trash targets to get to the good stuff in an area less than 18" on a side - that was the case with the 14k ring - and this was even with my small "double-d" coil!
I can't find a stamp on the gold necklace but it came out of the ground corrosion free and just as shiney as you see in the photo. It was about 6 inches down in the sand in an area that would have been about 4 feet under water a couple of weeks ago. No one can remember this lake ever being emptied before. I plan to take the necklace to a jeweler later today (or Monday - I work Saturday) to get verification it is "real" and "solid" and the karat value...I don't want to get my hopes up too much though. I put it on a small electronic scale and it comes up about 45 grams. I posted a close-up of the ring and necklace...any conjecture is welcome!
I also learned that the larger corroded/encrusted coins I'd been finding were German 10 Pfennings (pennies). It seems they were copper-coated steel and the sand/water combo "eats 'em up".
Until next time...HAPPY HUNTING TO ALL!
Batch
P.S. Yes, the resemblance to a "smiley face" in the photo was intentional
Below is the result of yesterday's hunt at the recently drained local village lake. Found two rings (one sterling, one 14k), the box link necklace, and an assortment of other "treasures". Of course I dug pound of beer bottle caps in the process! The trash is pretty dense and masks a bunch of the targets so I just started digging everything that wasn't iron...and still ended up with a lot of nails. At times I'd pull 3-4 trash targets to get to the good stuff in an area less than 18" on a side - that was the case with the 14k ring - and this was even with my small "double-d" coil!
I can't find a stamp on the gold necklace but it came out of the ground corrosion free and just as shiney as you see in the photo. It was about 6 inches down in the sand in an area that would have been about 4 feet under water a couple of weeks ago. No one can remember this lake ever being emptied before. I plan to take the necklace to a jeweler later today (or Monday - I work Saturday) to get verification it is "real" and "solid" and the karat value...I don't want to get my hopes up too much though. I put it on a small electronic scale and it comes up about 45 grams. I posted a close-up of the ring and necklace...any conjecture is welcome!
I also learned that the larger corroded/encrusted coins I'd been finding were German 10 Pfennings (pennies). It seems they were copper-coated steel and the sand/water combo "eats 'em up".
Until next time...HAPPY HUNTING TO ALL!
Batch
P.S. Yes, the resemblance to a "smiley face" in the photo was intentional
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