Coin Shooting x 5 Hours In The Same Area Nets A Lot Of Coins And A Cool Ring.:detecting:

[John-Edmonton]

Started an area near home after work yesterday for a couple of hours.....it was "HOT" so I went back again today for another 3 hours. Here's my finds less the junk.

I managed 3 more Dino Dollar tokens from 1993, some pins which I usually throw out, but this one was a "HOG RUN" pin, and a bunch of us belong to the "Blind Hoggs Club". The ring looks like silver, read as a VDI at 81, which is typical of silver, and isn't attracted to a magnet. It might also be made of nickel silver.

 

[mudpuppy]

Great work again! Thats a lot of spendable clad there...those big rings that look and sound like silver but are not magnetic or marked could be chrome/nickle...I found a few myself...i usually wipe them with one of those jewelers cloths to see if they leave the black residue like silver does...hope yours is silver!
Mud

 

[viking rich]

Gr8 finds mate lots of coins and a brilliant ring I hope its silver

 

[Johnny Cache]

Nice stuff...and I'm gonna bet that ring is silver.

 

[deepseeker442]

yes nice hunt and nice ring wtg

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

How long you had that pro pointer John? That is a true testament to durability!

 

[upnorth]

Very nice John. I have been pulling old silver out of a farm field here off and on all year. Got a strange one the other day. A 1940 third Reich coin, swastika and all. Pretty weird.

 

[William-NM]

Only 112 coins? What were you doing the rest of the time?

Those JSC acid test kits are pretty cheap on eBay - I use a known sterling or gold item as a comparison (or they sell needles of all grades for the same purpose). Also, someone mentioned that he preferred the 18K gold acid for silver, and he's right, it gives a distinctive response (suspended bright white floaters).