Mike Moutray
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- St. Louis, MO. / Naples, FL.
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I headed out to my favorite park for an early Sunday morning hunt until the oppresive heat drove me out 4 hours later. I concentrated on a 100+ year old picnic area that has given up scores of old silver coins to me in years past. 3 hours into the hunt, I didn't get many promising signals to dig and the ones I dug were deep clad or trash.
I soon get a faint hit that ID'ed around square tab... I thought, "Finally a deep old wheatie or indian cent". I also knew in the back of my mind it could be yet another trash item - like a screw cap. I dug down about 7-8 inches and uncovered a pale yellow circle in the bottom of my hole. "There's your deep screw cap" I thought, but when I popped it up to the surface, it was heavy and the dirt pushed out of the middle.
I slowly realized I had a ring and hoped it wasn't just a plated junker. The dirt wiped off clean revealing a nice 14 KT gold band with initials carved inside! This is the second gold ring I nailed in as many months after a dry spell of a few years.
This is the total nut for the morning:
Here is a close-up of the ring:
Take care and HH, Mike.
I soon get a faint hit that ID'ed around square tab... I thought, "Finally a deep old wheatie or indian cent". I also knew in the back of my mind it could be yet another trash item - like a screw cap. I dug down about 7-8 inches and uncovered a pale yellow circle in the bottom of my hole. "There's your deep screw cap" I thought, but when I popped it up to the surface, it was heavy and the dirt pushed out of the middle.
I slowly realized I had a ring and hoped it wasn't just a plated junker. The dirt wiped off clean revealing a nice 14 KT gold band with initials carved inside! This is the second gold ring I nailed in as many months after a dry spell of a few years.
This is the total nut for the morning:
Here is a close-up of the ring:
Take care and HH, Mike.
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