St. Louis Gold!!

BADDOG

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Dec 21, 2004
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Weeki Wachee, FL (north of Tampa)
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White's XLT
This past week I was in St Louis, MO for business, of course I took my detector :).
Was only able to go out in the evenings, however it was never hard to find a neighborhood park.
Totals for the week 113 coins (nothing old) for $7.02. 1 gold ring 10KP (plated >:( ) with 4 diamonds (I doubt it) chips, a cheap silver ring with turquoise, 1 earring looks like it was gold plated and a bunch of other stuff. I found an area where they had torn down a bunch of homes (northwest of the airport) to make room for the airport. I talked to the guy posting NO TRESPASSING signs and he said it was fine to detect all I wanted the signs were for people dumping trash back in there. The down side there were LOTS of pieces of building material in the ground. There was one old house (late 1800's) still standing (on Fee Fee rd south of McDonnell, left side of road) that the airport owns if you live near there you may want to try around that home. I went around it quickly found 1 clad penny. There's even an old well in the back. The nice thing was 90% of the vacant lots were mowed :).
 

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I live about 50 miles north of St.Louis. I might have to check that out. Nice Finds and happy hunting


Steven
 

Awsome !

Congrats "B"

Jeff
 

Recheck that 10 KP ring KP=Karat Plumb

4 diamonds probably real also.
Gold
K = Karat
KP = Karat Plumb (exact amount of gold)
K.P. = Karat Plate
GF = Gold Filled (heavy plating), usually has a fraction, i.e., 1/20 10K GF
GS = Gold Shell
HGE = Heavy Gold Electroplate
Decimal equivalents of karat ratings:
.375 = 9K (England and Canada)
.417 = 10K
.500 = 12K
.583 (.585) = 14K
.667 = 16K
.750 = 18K
.833 = 20K (Asia)
.917 = 22K (Asia)
.999 (1000) = 24K pure gold

HH
GP
 

Gold Pinger you are correct there are the letters JC in a triangle and then 10KP (no . .).
That is very cool. I was pretty excited when I found it then the balloon was popped when I saw the KP.
I guess I will take it in and have the gold and diamonds verified.

Northeast Hunter- It is a pretty cool job traveling. Thats what got me into metal detecting. Beats sitting in a hotel room and theres no one to tell me not to be gone to long ;) . I have Dallas, Omaha, Toledo and Las Vegas coming up.

Thanks for all the replies.

Good luck and HH

Baddog1
 

nedigger,
I will be out there Sept 19th and leave on Sept 23rd.
Would love to get together and do some hunting.
PM me and maybe we can get together.


Good Luck and HH

Baddog1
 

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