Cross My (Half) Heart,...I Think I Found My Second Gold Ring In A Week!

[Subterranean]

Greetings TNetters! I dug a few new parks in a city about an hour from my house. They were new-to-me and loaded me down with clad, for which I am thankful. (About $12.00 worth!) A grassy area next to a basketball court gave up the cool alloy-metal cross still on the pukka shell necklace. Haven't seen one of those since I used to wear one in the late 1970's!



On the way back home, I stopped in to a local school playground in the late afternoon. I dug up the "Half a BFF heart" pendant, and while trolling the bark in the tot lot, I swung under a tree and got a solid, repeating 63 VDI on the ATPro. I looked down to see a glint of golden yellow hiding in the bark. Inspection revealed a really pretty, wide but thin, gold band. It is marked on the inside in block Roman (?) letters, "Solid (Maltese Cross) Gold." It weighed in at an exact 3 grams. It looks like a small wedding band.



If any of my esteemed TNet friends could explain the hallmark to me, It would be much appreciated. It kind of looks like a very old hallmark or one made to look like it is old? Thanks for looking, I wish you all happy hunting this weekend! Sub

 

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[bill from lachine]

Sub,
Good going on the gold ring give the crew an update on purity when you get it tested.

Regards + HH

Bill

 

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[Subterranean]

Thank you my friends for the kind words. We use the services of a trusted jeweler and will let ya'all know what we find out! Sub

 

[montcalm]

Sure a nice ring found out they was some mark solid gold in the 1800 century . Good luck.

 

[testing123]

The ring is most likely old. I've seen the "solid gold" markings before. There was an old time ad that I think it was for 8 k or 9k but I'm not too sure though. Been a while.

 

[The Urban Prospector]

Nice ring buddy, that is some good lookin' gold! Congratulations!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Great hunt, congratulations on the gold and clad!

 

[Moonshadow]

Great stuff! Nice ring! I'm heading out the door now after months of hibernation......hopefully will find a little yellow stuff myself! Thanks for sharing your days finds

 

[CASPER-2]

 

[Xraywolf]

Almost looks copperish, maybe the lighting.
Hope it turns out to be legit.

 

[treblehunter]

GOLD
Sorry I always get loud around gold. You of all people I would think would have an acid tester. Very cheap on eBay and Amazon. Not hard to use either. Congrats on your streak I love finding gold, can't wait until summer water hunting.

 

[Subterranean]

Update...our jeweler tested the band today. He said it was 10 karat, so good news! He could not advise on the age or origin of the ring, so I will go with the consensus of my fellow TNetters, i.e., probably a Victorian Era ring. Happy Hunting to all, Sub