Sorry, but I'm laughing!
Amateur!
You gotta be more like me.
First , such a find never happens until many hours are in for the day to be burnt out enough to advance to #2.
#2. You ( As I) stab it with your digger out of impatience with prior junk recoveries before even seeing it and mar the face with a fresh deep groove.
Then you lose it in your pouch. Or was it in a pocket? Sock? Hat brim? I had it safe somewhere. (Just in case someone else wanted to stab it too.)
If you're going to drop a prize , do it over a poorly covered drain ect..
Or at least somewhere you can't find it for half an hour.
Congrats on the neat score! And on getting out.
I kinda like it just like it is. (Here ya go , try these pliers...l.o.l.. No! Don't.) But it's yours to do whatever with.