A few hours at the beach

[GeorgeinSC]

I got up early this morning and drove 31 miles to the beach. Only to discover that I had left my battery for the Excal Ii at home. So 62 miles later I was back at the beach with an operating detector.

Tide was close to high so I worked the dry sand most of the morning. Dug the normal assortment of trash, pull tabs, bottle caps and tent pegs.

I got $8.05 in clad and the usual hand full of lincolns/zincolns. I did find one ring. It is marked P4 SR. I had to do some research to discover that P4 is a combination of four metals. Platinum, Gold, Palladium and silver. I will have to check with a jeweler to see if it has any value.

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[Elton]

n/t

 

[bootyhoundpa]

Learn something new every day...nice find and 8 bucks in clad is pretty good for a late start..

 

[bob.oz]

Now that's different. I would bet you got something of value there, at least lets hope so after having to do the trip twice....that eight bucks might help a little towards some gas, but that ring might just save the day. Very nice..... WTG

 

[SIdigger69]

Very Nice!!!

 

[Grilled Scallops]

Unfortunately, P4 SR has little to no resale value. That ring probably sold for around a hundred bucks new. Do a little shopping on a particular auction site and you'll see what I mean. Sorry! It's still a ring though! I am seeing that exact same ring on the auction site for 65 bucks "buy it now"

 

[doc holiday]

Nice finds and did learn something---so that is always a good day.

 

[GeorgeinSC]

I did not think it was worth much as it had an obvious CZ for the stone. But I thought that it was a neat find as I had never seen one posted.

 

[TN Mike]

Very Nice!

 

[Grilled Scallops]

I did not think it was worth much as it had an obvious CZ for the stone. But I thought that it was a neat find as I had never seen one posted.

I didn't know about that kind of alloy either until very recently. Crazy, the junk they come up with to "keep jewelry affordable!"

 

[budaf250]

That's the first that I have heard of that mark. I wonder how you would get a scrap price on it?

 

[GeorgeinSC]

I also wondered how one would determine value. But I do not have to worry about that. My wife said "I like that" "And it fits"

I talked to a Gentleman who worked a few years in the Jewelry business and he had never heard of the P4 alloy.

 

[Blind Squirrel]

Good haul there George! That ring would make my day. I'm sure that it made yours! Best of luck and...

Happy Hunting!
Blind Squirrel

 

[Fabio]

All I got at the beach in Ramsgate, England was some garbage....
The lifeguards warned me that the beach was already hunted down by locals.
It was the only chance I had to detect during my latest trip to England...
I would have liked to hunt a field near a hotel on Old Folkstone Road, which looked interesting, and eaten up by sheep...
My 12th sense says there's something good buried under that field.
Hint. Hint.

 

[JimmyCT]

Nice ring! Bummer on the battery situation. But hey in the end you found a cool ring! Better than my day at work with clients lying, arguing and committing fraud. Glad it is Friday!

 

[wvrick]

Nice beach finds!