Ring marked 995 Help ID

[A2coins]

Sorry about all the pics this ring has some inscription looks Chinese and is marked 995 it weighs 7.45 grams Let me know if I need more pics Im using my Daughters old I pad is this look to be gold....Thanks Tommy

 

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[jewelerguy]

if it's marked 995, it means the ring is 99.5% pure gold (24kt)

 

[A2coins]

I like you I wasnt sure if it says 995 or 999 I dont know what you think from the pics also got this black hills gold 10k ring. Yard sales are great I got 15 or so silver forks Gorman and a huge goblet and 2 gold 14 ear rings for 6 dollars a few weeks ago. Thanks Jewelry Guy.

 

[namxat]

Hi,

I cannot really seen the hallmark, much less identify it. Yet prima facie, you do have a 99.5 chinese gold ring. Congrats!!

Asians are yellow-gold crazy and the do not accept low purities. Today in Hongkong straight 24k is quite normal, 18k shoddy and anything below not worth considering:

https://www.chowsangsang.com/en/product/Jewellery-ByMetal-24kGold?page=0

Thai standard is 23k. Nobody in Asia caares if this scratches easy since you pay by weight and the surcharge is very moderate. Things you do not like anymore you drop at the goldstore, pay someting on top and get new stuff.

As a sarcastic sidenote: Try to exchange several ounces of gold without id and questions asked in a so called western, free country.

Back to topic: Try to get a better shot of the hallmark. Kanji might not necessary mean Mainland China, Taiwan, HK or MAC. Oversea chinise do have a strong hand in SE in the gold trade. Could. e.g. be Malaysia.

Greets

Namxat

 

[A2coins]

Give me a minute Ill send some more pics

 

[A2coins]

Ill have to do after work my I pad is going nuts.

 

[smallfoot]

That's a cool ring Tommy!

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Hey A2! Been following you for a long time my friends!!!

Stay safe my friend

 

[Joe-Dirt]

That looks gold, really gold and heavy. Congrats bud!!

 

[CaptEsteban]

IF it is near 24kt [ pure gold ] you should be able to squeeze it & bend it with your fingers.

 

[Tony in SC]

I'd say it's the real deal! Looks old & hand made.

 

[GopherDaGold]

Nice rings! You made a great score!

 

[xr7ator]

NICE, TOMMY! I'll bet it hits high tone with your metal detector.

 

[Midwest4]

This is definitely a high purity Asian gold ring. Asian countries use the purity marks you mention- 995, it is between 23k and 24k (99.5% pure gold). Asians like the value of gold and tend not to dilute it with copper to lower karat ratings as in the western world. For example, you'll never see 10k gold sold in asia and 14k is very rare, 18k and 24k are the standards. This was probably lost by a Chinese exchange student or professor in Ann Arbor, huge chinese exchange student population there.. and many are VERY wealthy, as in almost every US college town, schools love it because they pay out of state tuition plus additional feels, so it's a cash cow, of course the tax paying wolverines children are the ones that get bounced from the application process to make room for these higher paying Chinese kids. Such is today's higher-ed money making machine. Those are definitely Chinese characters crudely scratched into the inside of the ring but the photos were not clear enough for my family members to read them. If you can obtain better quality photos, I can provide you a direct translation. Great find!!!

 

[Yang Hao]

@A2coins. Wow that’s a nice ring. Sorry I didn’t see the post earlier. From the photos you provided the characters (which are not etched in very well) appears to say 金華 jin hua however the 華 hua character looks to be etched in strange with an extra stroke mark and some strokes are too long or too short. My guess the meaning is gold and China (meaning the ring is made in China and the gold is from China) it could also mean a city in Zhenjiang province but I don’t think it’s that meaning. Happy hunting!

 

[sprailroad]

As far as gold rings go Tom, you found a "Holy Grail" of gold rings. Question: If you had the 800 out that day, what mode were you in, and about what number did it show?, I most often in any park I detect, operate in Field 2, Multi-tone, and on a 14k wedding band, on that setting, it pretty much comes out as mid-tone, like nickels, and a solid number of "14", at least on a "air test", in ground if I remember, I did dig a gold 14k ring at a solid 16. Just wondering, something to tuck away in back of my brain somewhere JUST IN CASE. Great find Tommy, you've more than earned that one after all these years.

 

[CoinFetcher]

Congratulations on the pure gold ring. Your naïveté about its metallic content is cute :-)

 

[ARC]

A2... great old ring... its pure gold... it screams it.

 

[terry g]

Congrats Tommy!! Love the buttery colour... If its adjustable it has to be high K...

 

[eyemustdigtreasure]

Hand-made, likely. Pure gold. Super Find!
Looks to be sized, perhaps...?