🥇 BANNER NEVER In My Wildest Dreams Would I Have Ever Thought I'd Find A Cache of THESE!!!

FoxHound0985

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Garrett AT Max/AT Pro
Primary Interest:
Relic Hunting
***EDIT*** Gold/Silver totals posted in comments on page 9

I'm still shaking as I'm typing this. My buddy Craig and I had some time to get out for a short hunt today. We went to an old home site we had hunted in the past. There was an 1840s house on that property that was demolished about 5 or 6 years ago. We were hoping to find some old coins or other interesting relics, but all we were really finding was junk. There is a ton of sheet aluminum at that site that always fools us. After searching the area where the front yard once was for about an hour, finding only junk and one wheat, I decided to go into the wooded area towards the back of the lot. I searched there for 20 minutes or so and found a small pocket spill of modern clad ($1.47) and some more junk. We were about ready to leave and go to another site when I got a very strong signal that was bouncing from 80 to 85 on the AT Pro. I dug a plug and rescanned the hole. It was still there. Looking closer, I could see the top of a zipper in the bottom of the hole. I dug around it and pulled out a very thick and heavy wallet! I could see some small round impressions on the side, so I just knew it was full of coins... But I was VERY WRONG!!! I tried to open the zipper, but it was so far corroded, that it wouldn't even budge. I took my knife and cut into the side of the zipper. When I pulled it back, I saw some SILVER AND GOLD RINGS staring back at me!! Craig and I were both at a loss for words. I poured a few of them on to my hand and snapped a pic. I really didn't want to open it out there, so I put the rings back in the wallet and went to show the property owner. He was very excited to see something like that, but had no idea how it would have ended up out there. He asked if he could have one, and I said "Of course!" He took one random ring on top. I didn't fully open the wallet until we got back to Craig's house. There were 104 rings total, including the one that I gave the land owner. Some of them are marked "10K", some are marked "14K", there is one marked "18K", and a bunch that are sterling. There is a really neat sterling buffalo ring in the mix too. I haven't cleaned them off yet, so I'll probably be pretty busy with that for the rest of the night. This is definitely a once in a lifetime find for me. Up until today, I had never even found a piece of gold in 20+ years of metal detecting. I can't even explain how I'm feeling right now. Anyway, that was one hell of a hunt! Thanks for looking and HH!

PF
 

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OMG!!! What a find, congratulations!
 

Ok....I'm a relics guy but that one is a total banner. What an awesome find! Congratulations!
 

wow realy awsome find how cool is that haha grats and have fun sprting and cleaning and sorting again lol
 

Quadruple WOW! Thats amazing. Cant wait to see the "after" pics. Looks like theres some nice ice on a few of them.
 

Have I mentioned how absolutely amazing that is?!
 

Awesome....but did he really have to take one for himself, that only left you with barely 100 rings.....jk
 

Never in your wildest dreams! That is usually the statement but today its a fact. You won the metal detecting lotto! Congrats and please post cleaned photos and tally? I love the WW2 veteran ring. Im thinking you deserve a banner as well. What not? That is a lot of rings.
 

Banner from me. Awsome find. Im as shocked as you are !! Pretty incredible. Wonder if its robbery loot/cache. 104 wow !!
 

banner for sure,find of a lifetime,yes,just wow,
get them clean and repost.
brad
 

Awesome, this is what we all dream of while detecting. I predict a fast banner on this one. Super happy for you. :)
 

A life time's worth of rings for most metal detectorists! Holy %@#*! I would lose consciousness at the sight of such a find! :notworthy:
 

Banner from me. Awsome find. Im as shocked as you are !! Pretty incredible. Wonder if its robbery loot/cache. 104 wow !!

I'd like to think this bag of gold rings was buried by a fellow treasure hunter like us who operated back in the early days of metal detecting. He or she accumulated these rings in the course of his/her hobby back when there was no competition and every area was virgin ground full of finds. Never intending to sell any of the finds and simply enjoying the thrill of the hunt, this treasure hunter one day decided that it was time to burry the loot, just like the pirates who's stories the treasure hunter grew up on and dreamed about. And so the hunter buried the rings as a pirate would bury his loot and every day the hunter was happy that his treasure was buried and would one day be found by someone a long time later. The hunter may have even left clues or a map but we may never know as chance and dedication of a new hunter led to the discovery this time instead. Just a theory. :)
 

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