Odd silver ring

[capt.ken m]

I'm in the Jensen beach area doing a fishing trip. And yes I brought my detector. You never know. Well I got about an hour break before heading out to dinner, so I hit this spot where they had taken out one of the small old mobile homes from the late 60s. I pop up this ring but it looks like a steel nut from a bolt. I looked at it but it didn't have any threads inside. But it did have a 925. Yes , silver. Thanks for looking.

 

[dirtdigginfool]

Captken, great find! Stamped .925 yes...silver? I don't know for sure but it appears plated...im not trying to bust your bubble, and I hope I'm wrong, but appears the plating has worn/flaked off from being in the dirt...let's see what others have to say...but-still a great find! Rings rule...Ddf

 

[sprailroad]

I'm kind of with dirtdigginfool, If it is silver, try a baking soda & water mix, like a paste, let it sit for awhile and then rub it with fingers or perhaps a toothbrush, should come out tarnish free. I really hope it IS silver and not plate. It is stamped .925, but I've found things are not always as marked. I found a ring one time out in a desert near RR Tracks, the stone that was in it was missing, and the ring looked brown kind of, but it WAS marked 14K inside, tested it, and not a speck of gold in it. Having said that, I truly hope that the steel nut looking ring you found IS silver, it would be kind of cool.

 

[against the wind]

Cool find,, there was a time when school shop classes would drill out steel nuts and hand them out as rings.
Congrats

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on the ring and other finds

 

[MarshallMetalDetecting]

Nice haul for one hour! Sounds like you were the first to detect that site

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[OBN]

It's silver, Saltwater does bad things to silver.........yours has been under for a few years. Way better then the silver I find.

 

[redbeardrelics]

In my 1977 high school metal shop class we had a project where we cut dense Styrofoam into shapes, buried them in the proper sand, and then poured melted lead to cast our Styrofoam forms. Mine was a ring that looked just like yours after removed from the sand and cleaned up a bit. The right person might be able to cast silver the same way?

 

[xr7ator]

It's silver. Nice find! HH ALL

 

[dirtlooter]

still cool ring and I believe it is silver too. congrats

 

[Trapper340]

With the shape of the outside diameter I would have pitched that thing. Good catch and congratulations.

 

[Mzjavert]

Nuts to you!

 

[vpnavy]

..: NICE FIND Captain :..
I would have thought it was a nut!​

 

[capt.ken m]

Ring update, I did some cleaning on the "nut" ring and it cleaned up easily ,found another mark inside that says Mexico. Mexican silver? Thanks for looking and the comments.

 

[sprailroad]

Yep, Mexican Silver, I have also found a ring marked 925 Mexico, nice find capt.ken

 

[dirtdigginfool]

I stand corrected! One of the few times I'm glad I'm wrong...Ddf

 

[A2coins]

Wow I just found that same ring today with no markings look at my post of 10 minutes ago that's pretty wild... Nice find