First gold and shes a biggy!

[rainorshine]

First gold and she's a biggy!

So today I went and hit a local baseball field. I was hoping for a ring so I was digging every signal. Not much at first, then I had a bouncy high tone that was barely audible but decided to dig it. About 7 inches down out popped a 1943 silver quarter. Didn't think this field was that old so totally unexpected. Not long after I dug my first dollar coin. Not silver but I've been hoping to find one since I started swinging. At this point I was pretty happy with my day. I had a little time left to swing so on I went digging every repeatable tone that I came across. Finally, I had tone bouncing between 60-67 reading 5 inches down. Dug a plug and popped it out. Started to peel the plug apart and could see the edge of something that didn't look like the typical pull tab. When I finally freed it up I couldn't believe my eyes. 1959 10k class ring. My first gold ever. It's been a long time coming!!! Thousands of pull tabs finally pay off. The ring has initials on it so I am now on a return mission. It's a little bitter sweet that my first gold may leave my hands, but returning it will be a treasure of it's own.

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[Metal Magnet]

Huge congratulations on your first - she's a beaut!

 

[be2019]

Very cool, I think finding the owner would be an honorable thing to do, looks good for all of us when someone does the right thing... Good job, and I hope you find him.

 

[Argentium]

You will feel a real sense of accomplishment if you reconnect the ring with it's original owner or a family member !

 

[Terry Soloman]

Wow - Congratulations!

 

[jewelerguy]

fantastic ring, and hopefully a fantastic return. congrats!

 

[uglymailman]

Nice find. If you do try and return it you might have good luck. Custer isn't that big a place and I see on the net they have an alumni association. Good luck.

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Nice hunt, congratulations !!

Keep @ it and HH !!

 

[Old Dude]

Good luck in your effort to find the owner. I had luck with one and no luck with my second.

 

[I-DIG-IT]

Nice digs.

 

[WheatWaffle]

Nice finds!

 

[PullTabPete]

Very nice finds good luck on the return effort

Pete

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Congrats on your first gold ring. And it's. beauty!
Nice that you are looking for the owner. I'm sure you will find a "keeper" gold ring soon.

 

[CoilyGirl]

What a beautiful ring and good luck on finding the owner.

 

[duggap]

I think we all are appreciating that you are going to return it. Be sure to post a follow up.

 

[Garrett424]

Congrats on your first gold find. It's a beauty. Pretty old too.

It PAYS to dig "trash" and "pull tabs". If you dig enough of it sooner or later the gold WILL appear. It may not happen much but when it does, it makes all of those pull tabs well worth it.

I still get excited pretty much every time I get one of those trashy signals because the potential for gold is always there. I dig them religiously. I dig TONS of trash but I've managed to score 5 gold rings since the end of June. I figure for every piece of gold I've found, I've dug at least 3-500 pieces of trash.

I do hate those gold colored pull tabs that very often look like gold rings before you pull them from the dirt. So disappointing yet one step closer to the next real one.



Nice silver too. I call that an excellent hunt.
Congrats. May that gold ring be the first of many.

 

[rainorshine]

Thank you everybody! No luck finding the owner on the internet so it looks like I'm gonna have to grind this out the old fashioned way

 

[Garrett424]

Thank you everybody! No luck finding the owner on the internet so it looks like I'm gonna have to grind this out the old fashioned way

I figure if the owner is still alive, he should be around 74 years old if he graduated at 18. He would have been 28 when they started the Viet Nam draft at the end of '69 and probably missed it. That increases the odds of him still being alive of course.

Good luck and if you have no luck locating the owner or his family, you'll have a great old gold ring in your collection. Either way you win.

 

[Agent Green]

Congrats, silver and gold in one dig, nice. Those dollar coins ring up nice, dug one the other day.. I always think they are silver.. but not a bad find at all...

 

[CoinandRelicMan]

Very beautiful classic looking Gold ring, great save there for sure !!!