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An interesting 3300 find....

J

JB(MS)

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I took the 3300 out for a last hunt before my nephew gets it tomorrow, didn't last long because of the heat but one of the finds is unusual. Got eight quarters, including a New Hampshire state quarter that lost a fight with a lawnmower, two pennies, no dimes or nickels and the odd gold colored nugget thing. Whatever the nugget thing is, it's very heavy and the same color as my 10k wedding band. It was a couple of inches deep so it had been there awhile. It gave 103-104 reading on the meter, came out of the ground shiney as a new penny and looks pretty much the same on both sides.. Whatever it's made from it's very hard, seems too hard to be gold. I managed to make a small scratch on it to see if it was plated it doesn't seem to be. Odd. Any ideas as to what it might be?
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The size, gold content and metal the gold it's mixed with determines the conductivity range gold rings fall in, and where they ID, on any detector. I've found gold rings that were from right at the edge of the iron range for small white gold and real tiny yellow gold ones up through the bottlecap/zinc range for a couple of large mens rings and several large boys class rings. The size of the nugget thing is big enough that it could have some gold content and ID where it did on the 3300. In the almost 40 years I've been detecting I've found a lot of gold rings and jewelry with a lot of different detectors, but I've never seen anything like the nugget looking thing.
 
I thought it was a broach when I dug it, but it's kind of heavy for that, and if it was fastened to something there had to have been a rim of some kind around it. The other side isn't identical to the side that shows in the photo but it's basically the same, and it looks to have been made in a mold, or with a press, as it's all one piece. Whatever it is it beats a zinc penny:).
 
Was just going to ask that...put a good magnet to it...it it sticks, it is not gold....Almost looks like a bunch of small metal discs of some type melted together by heat....the range the detector found it in should be silver, but sure don't look silver....Another mystery...is there any kind of metal plating or stamping factory near where you found it???



HH,

BH-LandStar
 
It's nonmagnetic, that's one of the first things I checked. It does look like a lot of little round discs stuck on it unless you look at it closely, but I looked at it with a very powerful magnifier and it looks to be all one piece. It was suggested that it was possibly a bunch of the little discs melted together, but even under high magnification that doesn't appear to be the case. The company I retired from at the end of December, True Temper, plates golf shafts with chrome and steel antennas with copper but I was around the platers for 28 years and we used nickel and chromium for the golf shafts and copper pellets for the antenna. There's nothing involved, or any byproduct of those processes, that's even close to it. It's not plated, and I would bet it doesn't have any gold content, but whatever it is it's one of the oddest things I've found with a detector<img src="http://www.jb-ms.com/emoticons/smile.gif">.
 
Thats a very interesting piece of metal you got there! I wonder who you could take it to for advice on it's composition? Hope you find out the items identity. HH regards Nugget.:detecting:
 
well if you don't figure it out , send it to me and i can bring it to work and have it analyzed, we bought a gun for checking out weld contents, some pipes were welded with the wrong rod material, and all welds had to be check to ensure the Navy's satisfaction
 
I don't want to put you to any trouble but if I don't find out within a couple of weeks what kind of metal it is I might just send it to you. Probably junk but I am curious as to what it is. I've dug a lot of stuff out of the ground but that's got to be the oddest:). Thanks again for the offer.
 
A company called Ral Partha use to produce a line of miniatures as a companion to the Dungeons & Dragons game. Anyway they had a treasure hordes boxed set and I can almost swear that looks like one of the pieces, but I am uncertain? I can not remember anymore than that. I hope it helps.
Doug in OR
 
its not a problem, i found a chunck of somthing heavy like lead but shined up real nice, couldnt figure it out, ended up being 98% zincwhen it was tested, then one of the, guys said, out in lake Michigan in front of town here, the bottom is full of natural zink in a thin layer
 
I showed it to a friend who and although he didn't remember the name he said his son had a game a few years ago that had a piece just like it. It's supposed to represent pile of gold coins. He said it was probably bronze, or at least a high percentage of it was, and since he works with all type metals I would bet he's right. Thanks to all who responded.
 
No problem Sir. I was just happy to know what the weird find of the week was [it will never happen again]. [GRIN]
Happy Hunting Sir,
Doug in OR
 
Now that it has been mentioned, I used to play D&D a lot when I was in High School...That does look like a miniature for a pile of gold, or dragon hoard....


BH-LandStar
 
I started laughing when i saw your pic. The Irony is tremendous. What you have found is a practice target from a childs metal detector set. My daughter had this set a few years ago. It came with a couple targets identical to you have pictured above and also gold and silver looking tiki masks. The detector had zero depth and could only find these targets when placed above the ground, in the grass or on the carpet. I've been all over the internet trying to find any pics or info on that detector with no luck, I think it was purchased from walmart. I'll have my daughters scour their old toy box, if they come across it, i'll put a pic up, i'm sure we still have one somewhere. hh, JJ
 
I am [almost] 100% certain that my guess was wrong. I actually read the post about the 'treasure pile' this time. It is described as being the same on both sides. The D & D miniatures would have been cast with one side flat to act as a base. It is clearly not a miniature for D & D. Sorry for the confusion guys. Maybe JJ is correct? In any event I do not know what it is and I will read before I write in the future.
Doug in OR
 
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