DrJoePrime
Bronze Member
- Sep 9, 2007
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- Detector(s) used
- XP Deus, White's Surfmaster Dual Field, Tesoro Sand Shark, Garrett ATX
- Primary Interest:
- Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
I am Excited!
It's just a ring but each one I find is like my first. And it's just 22 days since my last gold ring...almost exactly on the 3 week schedule.
I decided to try an old favorite beach that I've been neglecting lately. It hasn't produced anything interesting in the last three months. So with my Sand Shark I hit the wet sand. Right away I was picking up coins...even though they were only cents but cents indicate the proper conditions at this particular beach. Soon I had a dollar coin and quarters aplenty rolling in. Very notably hardly any trash. A delight to detect when 95% of the targets are keepers.
Then a BIG keeper! A huge ring. It was silvery with diamonds and I could sense it was platinum. Eight nice little diamonds on the front. Looking for the markings was difficult at the beach but it was definitely a keeper.
At home I finally was able to read F4SR which was a puzzle. The diamonds look absolutely real and it was certainly not silver as it came out of the wet so clean. A little research shows that P4 is a proprietary mixture of platinum, palladium, silver and gold. A bit of a mystery on value and how to cash it in..when the time comes.
HH Joe
PS: Oh yeah also a Silver Rosie towards the end of the hunt.
I decided to try an old favorite beach that I've been neglecting lately. It hasn't produced anything interesting in the last three months. So with my Sand Shark I hit the wet sand. Right away I was picking up coins...even though they were only cents but cents indicate the proper conditions at this particular beach. Soon I had a dollar coin and quarters aplenty rolling in. Very notably hardly any trash. A delight to detect when 95% of the targets are keepers.
Then a BIG keeper! A huge ring. It was silvery with diamonds and I could sense it was platinum. Eight nice little diamonds on the front. Looking for the markings was difficult at the beach but it was definitely a keeper.
At home I finally was able to read F4SR which was a puzzle. The diamonds look absolutely real and it was certainly not silver as it came out of the wet so clean. A little research shows that P4 is a proprietary mixture of platinum, palladium, silver and gold. A bit of a mystery on value and how to cash it in..when the time comes.
HH Joe
PS: Oh yeah also a Silver Rosie towards the end of the hunt.
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