First Class Ring and Barber Dime

[TCAWarriors]

Had a pretty good weekend. Went to a location I have hunted numerous times and had no results. I knew there had to be something there so I thought I would give it one more shot. After a few junk targets I hit a strong 12/44. I thought to myself "Finally, a dime!" Out popped my first Barber dime (1893)!
I found myself digging a bunch of coins which included the other silver pictured below. Overall a great day.

Then out came the ring. What a surprise a 10k class ring from 1973, as you can see after clean-up it looked brand new. After coming home I researched the school and discovered a web site that posted yearbooks from previous years so by the next morning (Saturday) I had arranged a meeting with the owner. Turned out that he had lost the ring the summer he had gotten it. Really did not know where, so before his parents discovered it was missing he had replaced it. (Sounds like something I would do.) I will be returning the ring this week to him in person and hope to get a photo.

Thanks for looking.

 

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[LuckyThirteen08]

Nice.Thanks for sharing!!

 

[Mzjavert]

It'd be great if you could arrange for his Mom and Dad to be at the return of the ring...yeah, that's an evil thought.

Thanks for returning the ring and congrats on the sweet silver.

 

[Mzjavert]

Was that yearbook site just for that school? Or for yearbooks in general? Care to share the link?

 

[TCAWarriors]

The site for the yearbook is Classmates - Find your school, yearbooks and alumni online. It only took about an hour to track him down and he lives over an hour away from me.

 

[Ground Inspector]

Nice barber!

 

[ruffneck]

Do you remember what the class ring #s were on the E Trac ?

 

[TCAWarriors]

Sorry ruffneck I don't because there was also 28 cents in the same hole with the ring so the numbers were all over the place. I hunt in two tone ferrous about 90% of the time and this has really bumped up my digging and also finds. I also found my first "V" nickel the same day but it was toast so I didn't even mention it. I really have enjoyed learning the etrac, I am fairly new to it.
By the way, I told the guy he was not getting his 28 cents back.

 

[cntrydncr1]

great hunt! congrats on the find and return!

 

[ruffneck]

I hear you, Two tone is hard to beat. I use it 99% of the time. Takes the guess work out of the iron tones.

 

[paulm777]

I need to find some treasure and purchase a two tone detector. Minelab CTX maybe. Guess it better be gold that I find with the stiff price tag huh

 

[hamiddetecting]

Great finds!! Nice ring!!