I was looking for a Gold Ring

MackinawGirl

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Jun 10, 2011
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Northern Michigan/Northern Utah
Detector(s) used
Garrett Ace400, Garrett Propointer, Lesche Digger, Garrett Waist treasure bag
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
The doctor I work for knows that my boyfriend (C6Corvette) and I metal detect so he asked us to come to his house to look for a gold ring. He had lost it about 20 yrs ago and thought... well... maybe.

So we went over there and hunted one whole area where he thought he lost it.
No gold ring found but found many pull tabs, arrow tip head, arrow, a child's metal sword, a few nickels and some other yard junk.... and just as I was sweeping the last row we hadn't checked... bam... a strong quarter/dime jumping high tone signal. I dug a hole and at the bottom of my plug I pulled a handful that contained the coin as I ran it over my coil. ding ding ding..... I split the dirt in half and I seen the edge of the coin. I could tell it was silver. As I slowly pulled the dirt away.. I saw this beautiful barber. I could see the date right away. 1902. It is my first barber quarter!
After it was cleaned up I see the mint mark is O.
I tried to give it to them but he gave it back to me a couple days later after I had told him that was the first of that type I had ever found.
He just asked that I come back and check another area of his yard for the ring. I was very excited to have this treasure back! Of course I will go back to metal detect :hello2: If I find anymore treasures I will be sure to post.


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Congratulations on your first barber quarter and I hope you find the gold ring:hello:
 

Nice coin!... that thing is like my achilles heel I've yet to find a barber quarter.
 

I hope you find it when you least expect it Gatorboy.. just like I did =)
 

Thank you and good luck out there
 

Awesome find! Congrats! Hope the ring turns up for you!
 

Tried again today.... found 2 memorial pennies, a 1970 dime, one spent bullet and one live M-16 bullet, 2 old pull tabs and one piece of tin.
No ring yet but I had to quit because the mosquitos about carried me away
 

Alright! Back on the trail....Congrats with all your sweet teasures and the ring is sure to come up! Just hope you can find it before the mosquitos carry you off! lol I know how bad they can get growing up in central Maine. Good luck and HH!
 

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