A Mystery ring (Help!), some silver, and four wheats!

[EpsilonMinus]

Hey guys, I wanted to get in another hunt before the snow comes, and therefore another forum post. Although I didn't find anything very exceptional this time, I am still very pleased with the current trend of finding at least two silver things each time out for the last three hunts, let's hope that keeps up or increases! As usual, here are my goods with some comments and questions.

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Here's the total loot. $2.60 in clad, four Wheat's, a silver Ankh, half of a silver ring with some little stones (mower hit, I assume), a mystery ring that needs to be identified, and a weird silver-plated graduation thing that appears to be a paperweight or something...

Close up of the jewelry stuff.
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Three of the four Wheat pennies I found... Not sure where the fourth one went, hah. 1926, 1944(not pictured), 1945, and 1955! Nice!
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This is the weird thing that I believe is silver plated because a small piece but broke off and revealed the crap-stuffing. Any idea what this thing is?
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Ok, when I dug this I thought I found gold, but now I'm not really sure. It 'looks' very much like gold but it doesn't seem heavy enough. That said, I don't have any gold things to compare to it, but it sure looks like the gold rings I see in peoples pics here, although a bit more rough. In this pic you see what looks like a brownish-red ring with gold-flakey stuff peeling off, but its actually the opposite. The more I rub on it, the more the gold-ish stuff shows. The inside of the ring is much less dirty/grimy, and more like what the outside appears to be after lots of rubbing on it.

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For this last pic, I made my best attempt to represent the marks on the inside. I have spent an hour with a magnifying glass looking at the two marks stamped in there and I still have no idea what either one says. When you are looking at one, that appears right side up, the one next to it appears up-side down. I'm not sure, but that's how it seems.

I would really appreciate it if anyone can help me figure out what this ring is, as the mystery is driving me crazy. I will now say what I 'thought' the marks my possibly be until I gave up trying. (With the perspective shown in the pic)

Left word:

EPAD, FPAD, 99AD, BPAD, B9AD... The first two characters are very vague, but I am 95% certain the second two are 'AD'.

Right word:

MALE, WALE, HALE, WAGE, MAGE... With this stamp, I am not sure about any of it, it even appears as completely different words at different angles. I am pretty sure its four characters, but it could be five.

Sorry about the extremely underwhelming pics of the stamps/marks, they are so small and extremely shiny that my camera can't get any closer.

If anyone can help me figure this out, or even give an opinion as to what type of metal this even is, I would greatly appreciate it! I have googled the hell out of every possibility that has come to mind and all have been fails.

Thanks for looking, and happy hunting!

-EpsilonMinus

 

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[vibes]

Well it didn't help those old Egyptians as they are all dead now! Thanks for setting me straight. Next time someone asks me my sign I'm going to say Ankh and watch them scratch their heads. monty

LOL

ok, what IS your sign? (couldn't resist)

 

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[Monty]

Cancer, but I don't put much faith in the horoscope. Monty

 

[Slipperyjack47]

The possible gold ring is definatly not gold "sorry"..... they use brass or copper to make the ring then gold plate it, the gold plating will adhere better to these types of metal.



better luck next time
Slipperyjack47

 

[vibes]

Cancer, but I don't put much faith in the horoscope. Monty

me too.

I enjoy reading charts...helps in my studies of ancient life.

 

[EpsilonMinus]

The possible gold ring is definatly not gold "sorry"..... they use brass or copper to make the ring then gold plate it, the gold plating will adhere better to these types of metal.

better luck next time
Slipperyjack47

So, you are saying that it's not gold but you think its gold-plated? I would still be ok with that, hah. It's still as exciting to find stuff, even if it's 'junk'. I think I agree with TexasGopher, though, at this point when he says "If it's gold you will know it". This is the type of thing where experience is key, I suppose.

 

[EpsilonMinus]

Cancer, but I don't put much faith in the horoscope. Monty

me too.

I enjoy reading charts...helps in my studies of ancient life.

What do you mean by this? You have a collection of ancient charts that you study? There is an interesting scientific irony in this type of studying astrology. On the one hand, you have astrology as code of spiritual superstition, which also served AS science at the time, but was in truth no such thing. Then, on the other hand, to scientifically study the ancient past, one must learn how to take this subject 'seriously' enough such to understand the motivations of the people who applied it to their daily lives, and by proxy the profound historical outcomes. The irony is in using the scientific method to understand the past, and thus the present, by apprehension of the ruins of a future-telling method, which had it been real, would have predicted it's own ruin and, I speculate, simply progressed to a more modern scientific method such as we have today.

As Morpheus says, "Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony."

 

[extractor]

monty, it's an ankh cross, an ancient Egyptian symbol of life.

Agree!

 

[Eu_citzen]

imho the ring is plated over copper

 

[CRUSADER]

imho the ring is plated over copper

agreed, not solid gold.

The design is actually copying a style used by the Vikings in the 9-10th century. Fashions recycling again!

 

[EpsilonMinus]

Oops, messed up the quote thing... but I meant to ask: Vikings wore 'Shrimp rings'? What did they call them back then? That's a pretty interesting comment. So far, it would seem, these were popular in the middle ages and the 1960's, very strange.

 

[CRUSADER]

imho the ring is plated over copper

Vikings wore 'Shrimp rings'? What did they call them back then?

agreed, not solid gold.

The design is actually copying a style used by the Vikings in the 9-10th century. Fashions recycling again!

I don't speak Sandinavian, so have no idea, they were made from twisted gold

 

[Eu_citzen]

imho the ring is plated over copper

Vikings wore 'Shrimp rings'? What did they call them back then?

agreed, not solid gold.

The design is actually copying a style used by the Vikings in the 9-10th century. Fashions recycling again!

I don't speak Sandinavian, so have no idea, they were made from twisted gold

I'm afraid I don't know either.. I know a little runes but its been way to long since I studied that...