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More Of My Finds...

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Here's the 1918 half I got a week or two ago, along with a gold ring I got at the beach about a month or so ago. The ring is plated. I hear Midwest and that other (ADR?) company buy plated rings. Anybody know on average a percentage of ring weight you'd get in terms of plated rings? Wondering if it's worth my effort to mail those in.

The other pics of finds I had posted a few weeks back but figured I'd re-post them for those who might have missed it and are wanting more pics of finds posted. Again, sorry for the picture quality. As good as I can get it. The 1918 half is my fourth half in about a year's time. I dug a Franklin in mint shape, two walkers, and a barber.

Oddly enough, often halfs have other coins with them. I had a V with the barber and a Buffalo and wheat with the recent Walker. I believe perhaps there are two reasons for this. One, if you lose a half then you aren't likely to also notice the other coins that were lost with it, and with other coins in the same hole people might pass over these thinking they are clads (slightly averaged down signal) or a pop can.
 
I've found a few thimbles over the years but this is my favorite. Late 1800's silver and gold thimble. It came out of the ground in perfect condition at 7 inches.
 
That's real nice. I think I've dug 4 silver thimbles thus far. A friend has also I think dug a gold/silver one like yours. That's a good find.
 
Very cool coin finds Critter! As for sending in a gold plated ring it does not look like Midwest Refineries accepts them. They do accept gold filled which is similar to gold plated but is more standardized in the quantity of gold. Here are my last two gold finds I made with my Excalibur. Both of them are 14K and were dug from a salt water beach while in the water.
 
Those are some Great finds Guys, enjoyed all the pictures................thanks for sharing...joe
 
Sir.Your finds made honour at your Knowledge to the art off metal detecting and application of
the superb Sovereign GT.For me the best Detector.
 
Thanks, and some great finds by everybody! Yea, this ring is gold filled (think it indicates that by the markings). Never realized there was a difference between gold plated and gold filled. Either way, I was told the markings it has makes it a gold filled ring. What kind of weight ratio do they give on those anyway?
 
Critterhunter said:
Thanks, and some great finds by everybody! Yea, this ring is gold filled (think it indicates that by the markings). Never realized there was a difference between gold plated and gold filled. Either way, I was told the markings it has makes it a gold filled ring. What kind of weight ratio do they give on those anyway?
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My understanding is that in the US gold filled is standardized to mean at least 1/10th of the weight for 10K and 1/20th of the weight for 12K and higher. Probably not worth sending in a single GF ring by itself, but certainly worth saving to send in with other stuff.
 
Decided to spend a few hours digging everything above iron at a school that dates back to the 1800's. The two buttons I believe are old band buttons and read around 156. The religious medal read as a penny and was about about 6" deep with a piece of can about 3" above it and slightly off to the side. Also dug a wheat at about 7 to 7.5" that had iron almost on top of it. Where I found the religious medal I had gridded that section out with a QXT Pro and dug anything above iron, so I'm not sure how I missed it since it wasn't all that deep. The elusive class or gold ring eluded me today, but I'll be heading back.
 
A friend I haven't hunted with in a long while wants a link to some of my finds this year, so I'm throwing a few things here for easy reference...

Clay, the civil war button is Fern's. Still can't believe he dug that. I dug the barbers about a week ago. Unfortunately the 1916 buffalo isn't the rare double date. Email me about your thoughts on the ring. I plan to bring it to your shop for inspection soon...
 
Got the big and small buttons today in the first pic. The second picture is the one from a few weeks back at the same spot. Not sure if the big ones are the same until I clean today's up, as it looks a bit different in the wings, shield, and such. Those two big ones are the size of a quarter. The small one has the same face as at least one of the big ones if they are different. Probably a cuff or collar button. Details like depth in the 12x10 thread. With them not being cleaned and my lousy camera focus it's not easy to see.
 
I've been on a button streak lately I guess, because yesterday I popped yet another old looking button. This one rang around the 150's somewhere from memory. It's perhaps nickle size or somewhere between that and a quarter. Anybody have any idea what this might be? It features an eagle or something and what looks like a royal crown at the top.
 
Fresh from their olive oil bath of several months, these are some of my copper, bronze, and aluminum finds. The upper left collection are Indians, the upper right are large cents, the lower right are things like tokens and script money, and the lower left are buttons or pendants of various types.

Gee, for somebody who wastes all his time doing air tests and such, I sure seem to be posting more finds than most people. :smoke: Amazing that I can squeeze the finds in when I'm wasting so much time finding things out about the machine that I'll never find useful in the field. :rolleyes:

In fact, some of these finds can be directly attributed to knowing exactly what to expect under certain circumstances and conditions. How a target is masked and with what, how minerals or hot rocks can alter response, fringe target reaction, on edge ID and tone, and so on. :thumbup:

That's the thing about controlled testing, you know what the conditions are and so you really soak in how the target reacts. Where as if you don't know what the target is in the field before you dig it you might never soak into and absorb what it is telling you. That's when you really wish you would have paid more attention to it's response.

Sure, there are many factors that only field experience can teach, but there are also many that to some extent only in depth testing under controlled environments and set up conditions can give you good insight on. After all, if you don't know what to look for you can pass up many good targets in the field before taking a chance on one. In house testing won't replace field work, but it would add extensively to your experience and knowledge base in many aspects of target response. That's why I do it. I never thought somebody would argue that less exposure to a machine would be a good thing, but to each their own I guess. :cheers:

I find olive oil works well to break up heavy crust on these types of metals, where as I prefer electralysis on my silver or just using baking soda and water. These items will now be rubbed with a little Flitz (a non-abbrassive polishing compound for all metals) to shine them up and also to protect them further.
 
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