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A Tiffany Platinum Ring Day Today!

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EasySwing

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Just getting ready to leave the beach for afternoon work and nailed this ring in the wet sand about 8" down using the Sovereign GT. Like most of you guys out there the pickings have been very lean on the beach. Today I got lucky with this Tiffany PT50 Ring at 7.6 grams. Swing on bros. First platinum ring find!
Marty
 
Great find! I've never found a platinum ring. That's a good chunk of money there as platinum is a good bit higher than gold prices. Were you using a meter? If so, may I ask what number it read? Also, how did it sound for you....like a nickle maybe? Or at least a good "quality" sound somehow different than the usual junk? Again, great job!
 
Good find ! platinum doesn't come often $1440.00 spot price a ounce Jim :thumbup:
 
Critter,

I think it's number was "Dig Me!!!"

But it would be nice to know what platinum rings up as on a 180 meter.

Nice find ES; I'm sure you didn't want to go into work after digging that one up!
 
n/t
 
If you do a search in this forum for "splitting hairs", you'll find a thread where we registerd the VDI of over 100 RANDOM gold rings from an UNBIASED test pool, meaning they weren't found by digging certain VDI numbers or by good sounding targets. Rather, they were all found with an Excal water hunting digging any signal, good or bad, that rang higher than iron. Anyway, in that compilation of numbers, there is one platinum ring that we also recorded the VDI on. Just thought I'd throw that out there, but I'm still waiting to know what you have to say about where your ring read on the VDI scale, if you were using a meter.
 
n/t
 
Sorrry
I didn't have a meter for my gt. Only had the detector for about 1 month.
Actually I may have to send it back because of all the falsing it does in the wet sand.
The sound was not a distinct sound, but definately lower than a penny sound. Almost did not dig it as i was getting tired as I use a 9" wide prostock scoop with a 53" wheel barrel handle. Over the shoulder.
Marty
 
EasySwing said:
Sorrry
I didn't have a meter for my gt. Only had the detector for about 1 month.
Actually I may have to send it back because of all the falsing it does in the wet sand.
The sound was not a distinct sound, but definately lower than a penny sound. Almost did not dig it as i was getting tired as I use a 9" wide prostock scoop with a 53" wheel barrel handle. Over the shoulder.
Marty
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That big scoop you use will wear you out and possibly make you sterile. I am surprised you can hang it across your shoulder. Time for a new scoop my brother. You have seen mine, with a stainless lip the same size is perfect for the GT. Try mine first before you buy. I think you will agree. You don't need a huge scoop for wet sand. In the water YES. Keep your big scoop for in the water to use with the Sea Hunter.

Just my opinion about meters. They are great to avoid 177 pennies on the GT. Scale 180 clean pennies will display 177. Dig everything else except bottle tops and they are easy to tone without a meter. Deep targets suck. They may null and be good. That is what scares me.
 
Most platinum rings will fall into the foil range i know on my DFX 0+ to 15+ vdi a very chuncky ring will show as high as +22 on a platinum ring just translate those # ,s to the 180 meter . Jim
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?28,455762
 
Your GT may be falsing due to water and sand trapped under the coil cover, or because you have the sensitivity too high. Sounds like you are new to the machine, so have you tried hunting in Auto sensitivity to see how it works that way? If it's stable in Auto at that beach then obviously you are running sensitivity too high when in manual. You also must keep the coil fairly uniform in height while swinging. Also, try slowing down your sweep a bunch. Even if sensitivity is set right too fast of a swing will cause it to null and chatter. This is a slow machine. SLOW...Meaning probably 4 seconds per sweep, give or take a few seconds depending on how wide or short you sweep. In particular, at some beaches or land sites you've got to swing even slower because the minerals are so bad.

Again, great find! Well on you're way to paying for the GT. I guess by eyeing that ring you've at least paid for half of it and maybe even about 2/3rds.
 
I just dug up the large platnum ring information from the splitting hairs thread. It read 157 on the meter.

Also, here is the splitting hairs thread for you guys to dig into if you want. We compiled a lot of statistical data including a random tab sample pool, then crunched the numbers on things like where percentages of rings fell on the scale, as well as how many rings could still be recovered (most of them!) by using the notch set at 165 to block out 84% of all tabs. Of course you don't want to do this at the beach, but in a park that is loaded with millions of tabs you can greatly reduce your trash to treasure ratio and still recover more rings. Details in the thread...

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?21,1096415,1101102#msg-1101102
 
Congrats on the beautiful ring!
 
Critterhunter said:
Great find! I've never found a platinum ring. That's a good chunk of money there as platinum is a good bit higher than gold prices.
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Actually, Gold is higher than platinum right now by about $200 an ounce. So if I were him, I'd just toss that ring right back and go find some gold. Just tell me what beach and about where he tossed it! :rofl:
 
Critterhunter said:
Your GT may be falsing due to water and sand trapped under the coil cover, or because you have the sensitivity too high. Sounds like you are new to the machine, so have you tried hunting in Auto sensitivity to see how it works that way? If it's stable in Auto at that beach then obviously you are running sensitivity too high when in manual. You also must keep the coil fairly uniform in height while swinging. Also, try slowing down your sweep a bunch. Even if sensitivity is set right too fast of a swing will cause it to null and chatter. This is a slow machine. SLOW...Meaning probably 4 seconds per sweep, give or take a few seconds depending on how wide or short you sweep. In particular, at some beaches or land sites you've got to swing even slower because the minerals are so bad.

Again, great find! Well on you're way to paying for the GT. I guess by eyeing that ring you've at least paid for half of it and maybe even about 2/3rds.
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Hello critter,
Thanksfor the info. I have done all those things you mentioned plus switching headphones. I feel ihave a good handle on this machine strickly beach hunting. Thismachine falses more than I expected it would. I canrun the sens to 2-3 and still hear the falsing. I believe it is our beach here in Jacksonville. Iamalookin2 held his gt straight up at the beach yesterday with the coil steady and got falsing. A storm was brewing also. Mabe the emi. Some areas of the beach are fine other areas false greatly. I know my sea hunter is much more stable. I have been able to hear the whispers even through the falsing. I wojld not call the gt a stable machine here at our beaches. In the dry sand no problem but then my mxt is also, lol. My hunting partner is having the same problem with gt. Thanks, Marty
 
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