SweetCorn
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- Oct 2, 2016
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I hit the beach yesterday and had my personal best for total rings, a staggering (to me) total of 9. This destroys my former record of 4 quite significantly. Of course 2/3 were junk, but I did get a little silver and a little gold, so no complaints here. This leads me to ask a question I've been contemplating for awhile.... What are others definitions of a "ring"?
Does it have to just be a ring? Does it have to have some resale value, even it only $5? Does a 25 cent machine kids ring count? Does it need to be a precious metal? And on and on.... I ask because as we all know, a majority of the rings we (usually) find fall into the junk category and I know a lot of people pay attention to their annual ring count. I certainly don't count plastic kids rings and I'm wondering if these absolute junkers that I'd probably have a difficult time even giving away to some kid on the beach should also count. But then there are rings like stainless, tungsten, etc. that don't have any melt value but could probably sell for a few bucks at a flea market or on ebay.
So where is your cutoff? Is a ring a ring (I don't think so).
From upper left to lower right.... 3 junkers, small silver Jesus ring, small toe ring (no stamp, looks like Si), large Si stamped ring, very cool looking, it has a yellowish tint to it and it was the first ring I found and I thought it was a junker, but ended up being stamped 925. Bottom row, 2.2 g 10k gold from Turkey, this was a neat. Bottom middle, antique looking ring until I dropped it and it shattered :-(. I wasn't able to find a stamp on it, the metal is white inside, what is it? The last ring is marked as silver plated. I consider this one a junker, silver plate is essentially worthless, but it might fetch $5 on ebay, right??
In other news, I pulled my first platinum last week, a 9.9 g band. I knew I had something special based upon the unusual tone and the clank and feel of the clank in the scoop when I was shaking it out. A great find.
Does it have to just be a ring? Does it have to have some resale value, even it only $5? Does a 25 cent machine kids ring count? Does it need to be a precious metal? And on and on.... I ask because as we all know, a majority of the rings we (usually) find fall into the junk category and I know a lot of people pay attention to their annual ring count. I certainly don't count plastic kids rings and I'm wondering if these absolute junkers that I'd probably have a difficult time even giving away to some kid on the beach should also count. But then there are rings like stainless, tungsten, etc. that don't have any melt value but could probably sell for a few bucks at a flea market or on ebay.
So where is your cutoff? Is a ring a ring (I don't think so).
From upper left to lower right.... 3 junkers, small silver Jesus ring, small toe ring (no stamp, looks like Si), large Si stamped ring, very cool looking, it has a yellowish tint to it and it was the first ring I found and I thought it was a junker, but ended up being stamped 925. Bottom row, 2.2 g 10k gold from Turkey, this was a neat. Bottom middle, antique looking ring until I dropped it and it shattered :-(. I wasn't able to find a stamp on it, the metal is white inside, what is it? The last ring is marked as silver plated. I consider this one a junker, silver plate is essentially worthless, but it might fetch $5 on ebay, right??
In other news, I pulled my first platinum last week, a 9.9 g band. I knew I had something special based upon the unusual tone and the clank and feel of the clank in the scoop when I was shaking it out. A great find.
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