I do believe I found what might have been the only piece of gold that was sitting on the entire beach this morning :mder:
Got to the beach just before sunrise; just a little more than 2 hours before dead low. Walked for a bit to get to another part of the beach and then detected. I hit a patch of 3 or so coins and got another signal (all within the first 10 minutes or so). For the heck of it, I checked what it might be with the CZ 21's discrim knob (something I NEVER do since I dig everything but iron). This target hit like a penny but I dug it. I was shocked to pull this 2.7 dwt pinky ring with 5 (very nice looking) diamonds. While I've had nickels hit with a high tone (because they've been tossed in the surf for so long), I don't recall ever hearing gold hit high???
Mike / Steve: Ever have this happen?
Anyway, after that, the beach was basically bare (except for a few coins). No one I spoke with had hit any gold (or anything else for that matter) so I'm very grateful for the one I got!
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a294/JoeGee/ring2b.jpg
I took this panorama shot last week... It' really a beautiful (clean) beach. I sure do get to walk a lot!
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a294/JoeGee/Summer%202011%20finds/IMG_0989-1.jpg
HH,
Joe
Got to the beach just before sunrise; just a little more than 2 hours before dead low. Walked for a bit to get to another part of the beach and then detected. I hit a patch of 3 or so coins and got another signal (all within the first 10 minutes or so). For the heck of it, I checked what it might be with the CZ 21's discrim knob (something I NEVER do since I dig everything but iron). This target hit like a penny but I dug it. I was shocked to pull this 2.7 dwt pinky ring with 5 (very nice looking) diamonds. While I've had nickels hit with a high tone (because they've been tossed in the surf for so long), I don't recall ever hearing gold hit high???
Mike / Steve: Ever have this happen?
Anyway, after that, the beach was basically bare (except for a few coins). No one I spoke with had hit any gold (or anything else for that matter) so I'm very grateful for the one I got!
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a294/JoeGee/ring2b.jpg
I took this panorama shot last week... It' really a beautiful (clean) beach. I sure do get to walk a lot!
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a294/JoeGee/Summer%202011%20finds/IMG_0989-1.jpg
HH,
Joe
Ma Betty
and go get more gold! Amen!
i would say its 18 kt or higher since it ids as a coin every detector i have ever used will id high kt gold as a coin. lots of people do not realize this or that the amount of gold rings out there to be found that will id as foil is 75% or higher.