Padawan silver hunt

[JerseyDigger19]

Padawan silver hunt with old looking ring

So, there's this park in a town close to where one of the best diggers I know lives. I've started calling it the "padawan" park because this guy is kind of like the Jedi Master of digging and we've both hammered the park over the last 4 years and many many people have hit it before us. So there isn't too much left to find and when I do hit something there it is extra exciting, kind of a Jedi challenge. Today I went out in the early morning to give some of its less hunted areas a try. Got off to a slow start with just clad, but an hour in had a pretty sounding beep which ended up being a 52 Rosie 5 inches down between two roots. Drifted through the park and wound up on the other side and another area that's typically had newer coins, dug a few cladders and then out comes a big hulking sterling jade ring. It either looks very old or 1970's, I can't decide which (Mark inside is just STERLING). Any ideas on how old it is? So all in all a successful Padawan hunt!

 

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[A2coins]

looks old are you sure it is silver here in mi silver comes out of the ground like it was dropped the same day. YODA. MAN

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[JerseyDigger19]

Hey A2! LMAO at the Yoda comment. It is silver, here's a closeup, just very oxidized from being in an area that floods a lot and catches some road salt from the nearby path!

 

[dirtlooter]

looks pretty awesome to me, as I have been really finding out, soil conditions can really make a difference on the quality condition of your finds. In this one permission area, my buffs are all pretty toasted as are all the pennies(wheaties). Even some of my silvers look like battery acid had been dropped on them. I have found that my ground balance changes like crazy in places too. I also find that my VDI numbers fluctuate quite a bit here too. so it is what it is and it ain't what it ain't and we have to deal with it as it comes along.

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on the silver

 

[A2coins]

YODA MAN I was laughing when I wrote it seemed fitting.... That ring is really nice I try to keep all mine {away from the wife} in a display case that could easily be sold not for melt but as a vintage ring SWEET!!!!!!

 

[dirtdigginfool]

Way to keep plugging away! While I can't nail the age of your ring down, it has to have some age to it as silver was marked STERLING vs the .925 we see stamped on later items. Congrats...I can see it now, you and Yoda in the park..." Dig this ring I will ! ". ..Ddf

 

[RVRoamer74]

Nice save on the old silver ring....to me it is vintage for sure. Congrats !!!

 

[A2coins]

Way to keep plugging away! While I can't nail the age of your ring down, it has to have some age to it as silver was marked STERLING vs the .925 we see stamped on later items. Congrats...I can see it now, you and Yoda in the park..." Dig this ring I will ! ". ..Ddf

you da man YODA MAN