Hard work but we had a little luck today

[WV62]

So yesterday my brother SL52 and me returned to a wooded area in the park where I found a 1900 Barber quarter last week.

Today we thought that our best bet would be to work the steep banks where it was very hard to climb.
It's been a long time since we have had a 5 silver day.

Anything you want to add little brother SL52?

Ron in WV

 

[still looking 52]

The bank was so steep we we're slipping and sliding the whole time we were hunting but it was worth it to get five silver dimes in one day. There's no doubt the reason we found this silver is because nobody else was stupid enough to hunt this slope but us and we're planning on going back and doing it some more.
We had found five silver dimes already and Ron got another good signal(7 and called me over to see what my F5 was showing and sure enough I was showing a nice 78 and not deep. Ron took a small plug to get it out and the plug rolled down the hill so of course we started looking for the dime, 30 minutes later we found a round small steel ball about 10 feet down the hill, that was our silver dime. LoL

 

[jim tn]

Good hunting guys and good thinking outside the box. HH jim tn

 

[miserman]

Nice hunting. The coins were probably lost by someone doing the same thing you were...slipping and sliding

 

[Kraemer]

Said it before and I’ll say it again “Old age and treachery beats youthful exuberance every time!” Great work guys! We all learned a little today. Tough job takes tough men!

 

[Monte]

Naturally it was also good to be hunting with family, too. SL52 was using a Fisher F5, but I'm curious which coil he was using, and what detector and coil helped you in the silver-recovery day?

Best of success to you on your next trip afield.

Monte

 

[WV62]

Naturally it was also good to be hunting with family, too. SL52 was using a Fisher F5, but I'm curious which coil he was using, and what detector and coil helped you in the silver-recovery day?

Best of success to you on your next trip afield.

Monte

Well we both found silver, brother Greg (SL52) was using his F5 with his 11" dd coil, I was using the my F75Ltd with the 5x10 dd coil. We both chased that 78 ball of metal down that gully. I end up finding it for the second time. The problem was we were both in the gully trying to stand and the leaves were knee deep. At one point I had my brother check the mud on the bottom of my boots for that missing dime. He couldn't use the metal detector because I was wearing my Vietnam jungle boots which have a steel plate in the bottom to protect us from pungy sticks back in the day.
Kind of funny what a person will do for a silver dime that turned out to be a ball of metal. LOL

Ron in WV

 

[still looking 52]

Nice hunting. The coins were probably lost by someone doing the same thing you were...slipping and sliding

Miserman you could be right about that but I think maybe the coins may have been washed down the bank from the hill from above, these dimes were really shallow and we started finding them just over the crest of the hill.
The next trip I think Ron and I need to use repelling ropes to may it easier. LoL

 

[dfmike]

Good finds !! I'm surprised by the fact that it's 5 silver dimes... No wheats ? No nickels ? no quarters ? The quarters probably rolled down the hill a long time ago and were picked up but there should be other small coins there.

Keep us posted.

 

[MarkCZ]

Naturally it was also good to be hunting with family, too. SL52 was using a Fisher F5, but I'm curious which coil he was using, and what detector and coil helped you in the silver-recovery day?

Best of success to you on your next trip afield.

Monte

Hi "Monte"
Here is a little more info about the F5 in question.
Its the early version, it was one of the ones that wouldn't hit on a Silver Dollar in discrimination mode at ALL, it also has the earlier style coil connector.
He's using the stock OEM 11" DD coil.
He got it used and so early on it was sent back to its place of birth for the Silver Dollar issue, to which FT did a bang up job on that issue and treated him very
well in the process, I think they even freshened a few other things up on the detector as well.

MarkCZ

 

[WV62]

I was looking through some of the junk that I found the same day as the 5 silver dimes. I knew I had a ring in there and I showed it to my brother SL52 while we were hunting and I told him it was copper and 1/2" copper pipe fitting was worth more than the ring.

I found the ring really close to where I found a 1900 barber quarter last week.

I noticed that there was some writing on the inside, that seemed a little odd for copper, so I took a tooth brush and cleaned it up. I rechecked and it said solid gold that kind of got my attention, so I thought I would put a couple of pictures out here and see what you guys think.

Ron in WV

 

[jim tn]

Little tough to see the true color from the picture, but the styling and shape sure look like a gold wedding band. And a hefty one at that. HH jim tn

 

[WV62]

Little tough to see the true color from the picture, but the styling and shape sure look like a gold wedding band. And a hefty one at that. HH jim tn

Tried another one looking for a little better color, still a little dark on the outside and little more like gold on the inside. As I said when I pulled it out of the ground I called it copper.

Ron in WV

 

[jim tn]

As it stands, I'd be proud to dig it! HH jim tn

 

[MarkCZ]

Don't make the same mistake I made, test check it with a magnet. Like a 14K Italy chain I
found in a parking lot, it was total JUNK every piece of stuck to a magnet.
Its looks to have a split in it, gold rings typically are first made as solid bands and get cut
when they're resized.
Spread it apart just a little and see what the inner color is.
If its solid gold the metal will be very soft, which means that you should be able to take something
a small nail with your hand pretty easily press an indent in the surface.
What color was it when it came out of the ground? I mean if its copper its color shouldn't be much different
than the common wheat penny, or to say a dark brown.
I'm pretty sure you have some little digital scales, what does it weigh?
Interesting for sure.

Mark

 

[WV62]

Don't make the same mistake I made, test check it with a magnet. Like a 14K Italy chain I
found in a parking lot, it was total JUNK every piece of stuck to a magnet.
Its looks to have a split in it, gold rings typically are first made as solid bands and get cut
when they're resized.
Spread it apart just a little and see what the inner color is.
If its solid gold the metal will be very soft, which means that you should be able to take something
a small nail with your hand pretty easily press an indent in the surface.
What color was it when it came out of the ground? I mean if its copper its color shouldn't be much different
than the common wheat penny, or to say a dark brown.
I'm pretty sure you have some little digital scales, what does it weigh?
Interesting for sure.

Mark

I done some toothpaste cleaning and took another picture trying for a little better color.

The ring came in at 5.1g and I found this info on line. Also it is not attracted to a magnet.

Went hunting yesterday and found this ring on a Nashville lot. It looked like gold, and the nice scroll inscription “Mary” inside the band looked old. However, instead of some sort of karat marking, it was marked “SOLIDGOLD”, which made me suspicious. I had never seen this mark before, but a little time with our friend Google gave the information that only one company had used this marking: the Providence Ring Manufacturing Co. of Rhode Island. They issued their one and only catalog in 1898. In any case, they certainly could not have used this type of marking after passage of the US Metals Act of 1906.

I checked the ring with my acid test kit, which indicates 10K or a little less. This is consistent with the Prov. Mfg. Co. catalog, which says they marked their 8K and 6K rings with the marking “SOLIDGOLD”, whereas true 10K. 14K, and 18K were marked with a 10, 14, or 18 inside the company trademark. The inferred approximate age (ca. 189 is in line with the nice little 1904 Barber I found lurking on the same lot.

 

[dfmike]

Very nice find. Looks a lot like rose gold which it probably is. The relatively low gold content combined with copper probably gives it that reddish hue compared to the yellow hue we typically see on 14-18k+ rings.

 

[WV62]

I had that ring tested today and they were not very nice in the shop, but he said it is not gold.

Ron in WV

 

[dfmike]

But what about the acid test you did ?

I wanted to post something I found from a link on the *bay community regarding a ring such as yours but I think *bay has been banned here. I can't post the link.

In short one of the posters said he had found a few of the "solidgold" marked rings and they tested at 9 or 10k. Rings were not always hallmarked appropriately at one time it seems.

 

[WV62]

I still think this ring is gold in the range of less than 10k. But I don't know what test these guys done on the ring it was a acid test but I understand that that there is different acids to test for each K. They didn't seem to really want to test it but they did test but what level I have no idea.

I am thinking I will take it someplace else and see if I get a better reception.

Up to today I had done no testing other than a magnet, I did do some online research and I think I nailed it down to the company and dated back to early 1900's. The rings running less than 10k were marked solid gold.

I will try again and see if I can get somebody with a little more interest to repeat the test for lower K.

I will post the second test when I get it done.

Ron in WV