Got a gold heart stopper yesterday

[time4me]

It was a beautiful day yesterday, and I got a pass from the family late in the afternoon to do some detecting.

I ended up hunting for about 90 minutes, and ended up with two rings. But, with only 14 coins dug, my ratio of rings to coins was fantastic!

The third or fourth target dug was a black ring that turned out to be silver after a jolt of electrolysis. It was real toasted though, from too many years in the salt water.

About 20 minutes later, I got a sweet low tone on my Excalibur, and got the target in the first scoop. I dumped the contents of the scoop on the beach, and kicked it over and saw GOLD. I quickly snapped it up and saw a huge diamond sitting high up on a wide gold band. Boy, that got my heart racing, but I told myself not to get too excited, as it could very well be a fake. I gotta tell you though, I took that baby out about every 10 minutes for the rest of the hunt to look at it. I can't read any small print any more, so I couldn't read the stamped marks inside the ring.

As soon as I got home I tested the stone with my diamond tester, and the little light didn't flinch. BUMMER! Then I got my loupe and read the stampings - 10K and CZ. Oh well, gold is gold, and it was a thrill to see this baby laying there in the wet sand!

Here is the heart stopper:

Here's the total take for the hunt:

And here is the silver toasty ring after electrolysis:

Happy Hunting!

Jim

 

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[Jaws2]

Nice gold ring! I found one like that last year in white gold with cz stone.

 

[Montauk3]

Jeez O Pete, seeing that in my scoop I'd probably wind up in the hospital gulping nitro pills.

Ahh yes, the fun of metal detecting.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Nice ring and it's still G-O-L-D

 

[Gator-Flea]

Nice ring!!

 

[herbcat]

nice rings you did good...congrats

herb

 

[gold nuggets]

Nice hunt and congratulations on the
gold ring. Too bad the stone was CZ, but
it's a pretty ring anyway. And you are
right about the silver ring, it has seen
better days. Gold Nugets

 

[mumszie]

YEP! That is a heart stopper! I would have looked at it every 10 minutes or so too! Sorry it didn't turn out to be a real diamond but still it is gold and you had a great hunt! WTG!

 

[wwace]

Those should be outlawed, but at least you got a little 10k to help the ease the shock

 

[bootybay]

oh yea, a heart stopper for sure.. but least its gold.. and it still is pretty.

 

[Indasurf]

I know what you mean!!! I recently dug a 12k bangle bracelet loaded with CZs that had me "shakinnnnnn" in my boots (kept looking at it and scratching my head too) !

 

[FloridaTreasureFinder]

That's a nice ring and would make anybody's heart skip a few beats at first sight!! The silver came out pretty good too. I found a earring that at first I thought may be gold, but looking closer, no stamps and the coating is worn off in several places. Turned out to be just costume jewelry. I also found a rusty chain that could of been attached to a biker type long leather wallet??

Anyway, very nice finds. Good job!!

skt