Help ID'ing ring...

[tincanalley]

Purchased a 1021 CD3d last week and have found my first gold after about 6 hrs of detecting!!!

Well... maybe!

Looks to be a lady's wedding band about size 8. It says 10kt. ...but it also says "pc" after the 10kt as in "10ktpc" I can't seem to find anything about what it means, but I suspect it might mean 10kt plated copper. Even if it is, it was great finding it. Anyone here know what it really means?

Maybe I need to stick it in a fire and see if it has elfish script inside of it

 

[scubadetector]

PC could mean the makers initials. The only way to tell is take it to a jewelry store and most will check it free for you. I have found hundreds of gold rings and never heard of or seen PC. The main ones you see are

HGE Heavy Gold Electroplate
GF Gold Filled

Congrats on your ring! a jewelry stor can tell you in a few minutes.

 

[tincanalley]

Thanks Scubadetector.

I took it to a shop across from work today and the lady was quite sure it was real. She was like you and thought the 'pc' was a makers mark. She mentioned the same markings as you did above. What neither one of us could figure out though, was that the ring looks "mottled", meaning that it looks as if the gold has irregular spots of copper looking color mixed into the gold. I had remembered something about 'rose gold' and looked that up, but it seems that rose gold is of an even color, just more reddish than most gold due to more copper added to the mix.

She polished it to make sure it wasn't plated, and it came out looking just as before, still mottled, but shinier. She said if it had been plated that the buffing would have removed the gold plating, or at least you would have saw little jagged edges where it was coming off. It reminds me somewhat of a form of damascus layering where they use small chucks (as opposed to two flat pieces) of dissimilar metals, heating them in a furnace and then hammer weld the pieces togather while red hot, but I've never heard of such a thing using gold in the process.

Whatever the composition, it's an unusual piece for sure and I will keep it instead of scraping it out for the gold. If you come across any kind of information about such a thing, please let me know.

Connor

 

[JeffNS]

What did the ring id at on the CZ3D? If it was copper plated it would reach higher on the conductivity scale. I've found 5 gold rings with my CZ3D. One 14kt the others 10kt. All of the 10kt rings rang in at the nickel high-tone area of the target meter. 14kt read as foil. Gold is of lower conductivity than copper so that might give you a better idea.

 

[scubadetector]

A jewelery store is free and will check it. Get to know one of your local stores. That being said, I have found rings that were marked 14K and there was positively NO gold on them at all. They might have been plated or gold filled at one time BUT nothing gold was left and they were sold as real. Good luck!!

 

[tincanalley]

Jeff: I think the ring showed up as "foil", which was why I checked it as it was a steady tone and I was wanting to dig any good tone so as to see how the CZ3D was at identifying things. My steady tones so far have been wheat pennies, mans bracelet (nickel), medallion about the size of a silver dollar with an old t-model icon impressed into it, silver dime, a few pull tabs, foil and odd and ends of alum. and brass.

My biggest problem is trying to decide what the targets are that change from high tone to low tone. I'll sometimes pinpoint and see if there are one or two objects in the ground causing the problem. If there are, I try to lower my sens. and pick them out one at a time and see what the detector says. If there is only one object, I check my depth and if it's under 8 inches, I pass over it as I figure the 3d should correctly ID a coin at that depth.

Still learning and trying to pay a bit more attention this time to what I'm doing.

 

[scubadetector]

Most are rusty nails and or rusty bottletops with my detector which is a CZ-21. HOWEVER also newer Canadian coins do that to my machine also. Since all are round and steel. (Do you know the newer canadian pennies are also copper coated steel?) And your absolutely right, high trash areas can and will give your machine every signal possible. When I hit high low signals underwater in certain spots, its because multiple signals are driving my machine batty, LOL and thats a lot of fun!

 

[Dan-Pa.]

A jeweler can probably tell by looking at and can very easily test if not.

Years ago a fellow hunting the N.J.shore found what looked like a costume ring as it was more of a copper color and stones were large. Turned out it was a turn of the century Russian variety which was not marked and had a large diamond and two rubies and turned out to be an expensive ring at best....Most U.S.A. rings are marked but foreign rings may not be so take it to the experts...