Roland58 said:
Cool video and even cooler finds. I noticed one of the rings was marked 14 KP or 10 KP....something KP. What does the KP stand for? Is it carat plated? I know I found one that was marked 18 KHGEP and I found it stood for 18 K Heavy Gold Electro Plate. Not saying yours is plated, just wondering. (and too lazy to look it up).
This was my second gold ring of the year found in Feb. on a very cold morning while hunting with a buddy at a small neighborhood park that was not really wide but about 1/2 mile long with a small tot lot and one picnic pavilion.
We were parked at the end of the park, not finding much except clad and he called me over because he wanted to leave and hit another site.
As I walked back to the car through an open area I was swinging along the way using my F2 and the sniper coil and in that pretty big area with very few signals I just happened to run across this thing which was a 32 on the F2.
33 is usually a nickel, 32 could be but most of the time in this park it was usually going to be a stay tab or the tail end off a beaver tab.
My hands were frozen and I almost didn't bother to dig it but it was solid and stable and repeated so I said what the heck and out popped this ring.
Pure luck for sure running over this thing in such a large open area with that tiny 4" coil.
I was confused when I found this one, I thought it meant plated but after I got home and did some research I was pleasantly surprised.
When you find something that has a karat mark and just a P that is a very good thing.
The P stands for Plumb, and that is a term in the jewelry business that denotes the item is exactly the karat weight that is marked...no more, no less.
Most jewelry is "close to" the karat that you see stamped in the piece, 14k might be actually 13.8k for instance but not really 14k.
When it is stamped with that P you know that that piece has been certified and is
exactly the karat weight as marked.
Killer year buddy!
