Ring Marked .916 No Kidding 22k Gold!

[LawrencetheMDer]

Hit the water today metal detecting with the Excal and made the mistake of wearing my shorty wetsuit in 72 deg water for 5 hrs. I think I was covering more ground with each swing because I was shivering so much! These old bones need a full 2-3mm wetsuit in low 70s degree water. But during my shivering I hit a good target in about 4 ft of water and saw gold in the scoop. I started to have second thoughts about the ring when I went back to the car and could see something like 925 without my loop. When I got home my 10x loop revealed .916 as shown in the photos. Now I was worried it wasn't even silver (.925), but had some inventory mark and that the ring was junk. Decided to Google it [this is where my wife chimes in and says something like "You Google? The Man who knows everything?"] ...Decide to Google ".916 and wedding band" and viola - The ring is probably British and 22k gold (.916) is big there; like 14k in the USA for wedding bands. Rings in somewhere around $500. Not bad for "junk".
This cool gold ring puts me in for 6 this year and brings my coin : gold ratio to 280 : 1 for 2017. This matches my long term ratio of 250 - 300 : 1. I'm Happy. Have just one more day to MD the beach as my days are numbered here in Florida. Leave next week. One more chance for gold.

 

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[tlane38003]

That's a nice one congrsts

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[ivan salis]

Arabic middle eastern countries and India use 22 k --which is rather soft really -- in most places over there nothing less than 18 K -750 is thought of as being gold

 

[stpauli914]

I found this 22k beauty a couple years ago. Took the day off work after a good storm rolled through and got rewarded

 

[Fitzwilk]

Wow.... what a beauty! Still waiting for my first 22K find. Maybe this is the year.