Here are a few more beach finds. The larger ring is Titanium and the others are silver. The middle ring gave a lower tone unlike silver and lower than a pull-tab. I was sure that it was gold before I dug it. Is it normal for silver to have a low tone. Or is it the shape of the ring or it's thickness?
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More Silver and A Question
- Thread starter Reddog777
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Reddog nice finds HH Ron
deepdiger60
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What are the marking,s on that middle ring ? you sure it,s not white gold ? nice find on the PT.950 Jim
I'VE FOUND SMALL SILVER ITEMS AND THEY ALWAYS HAD A HIGH TONE AND 180 ON METER. MAYBE YOU HAD A SMALL LOW TONE ITEM NEAR THE RING AND CHUNKED IT WHEN YOU SAW THE RING WITHOUT EVER SEEING IT. MAYBE A TONE AVERAGE. I'VE LOOKED FOR VERY SMALL ITEMS FOR A LONG TIME AND IT'S A HEADACHE SOMETIMES. THE SOVEREIGNS ARE SO SENSITIVE. GREAT FINDS. CYA-MARK
bootyhoundpa
Well-known member
last summer while hunting the beach at night i found a silver ring that came in as a lower tone on the excal and turned out to be silver 925....the ring i found was kinda fatter towards the top and was rough in spots on the upper inside like you get from cast metal....but it was marked 925 ... thats the only silver i ever found that gave a low tone...
Critterhunter
New member
Those are some fantastic rings.
That middle ring- Yea, if it is silver then I'm guessing the webbing isn't attached at some point all the way around it? Is there a crack in the ring's shank or anywhere else? That could make it read lower.
As a general rule of thumb- a silver 3 cent piece I found about 3 years ago or so is pretty darn small in size, and I'm sure much smaller in diameter than that ring, and it still rings in the 169 to 173 range on my GT when I've scanned it to see when I was putting together a chart for myself.
I dug a ring sort'a like yours 4 or 5 weeks back. It didn't have webbing but it had a bunch of holes in it. Didn't have a meter on because I was water hunting but I bet it would have read 180 because the pitch was high like a silver coin.
Last summer I dug a super thin silver ring and it read 180.
Smaller silver that isn't a loop I've had read lower. Typical is 173 or 176 just like a zinc penny. One small silver pendent I dug a while back was about the size of an eraser (or so) on the end of a pencil and it still read either 173 or 176. Can't remember the exact # other than thinking "that thing read just like a zinc penny", so it was one of those two numbers. It was round in shape though and smooth.
I just can't figure out why it read as high as the 3 cent piece when it's much smaller? Maybe the cut off point for a round silver item is around 173 regardless of how small it gets to a certain point before dropping more?
The tiny butterfly pendant I found the other day was perhaps a bit smaller than a dime or at least no bigger, and I think read 159 or 169. It is silver, but I think it's size/shape not being round, not being a loop, and also all the fake stone studding on the front with the bee hive like honeycombing brought it's number down a good bit. I've never dug a silver item of any size that read that low on the Sovereign or other machines I've owned over the years.
Maybe that ring is nickel silver? That stuff isn't really "fake" and is usually marked nickel silver, but it's got more of a white gold or a dull silver look to it and I bet the nickel mixed with the silver makes it read lower. I've seen a few bracelets made of it. Not sure if they make rings with it too.
Or, like he said, something else was in the hole. Scan it again and see what it reads now.
That middle ring- Yea, if it is silver then I'm guessing the webbing isn't attached at some point all the way around it? Is there a crack in the ring's shank or anywhere else? That could make it read lower.
As a general rule of thumb- a silver 3 cent piece I found about 3 years ago or so is pretty darn small in size, and I'm sure much smaller in diameter than that ring, and it still rings in the 169 to 173 range on my GT when I've scanned it to see when I was putting together a chart for myself.
I dug a ring sort'a like yours 4 or 5 weeks back. It didn't have webbing but it had a bunch of holes in it. Didn't have a meter on because I was water hunting but I bet it would have read 180 because the pitch was high like a silver coin.
Last summer I dug a super thin silver ring and it read 180.
Smaller silver that isn't a loop I've had read lower. Typical is 173 or 176 just like a zinc penny. One small silver pendent I dug a while back was about the size of an eraser (or so) on the end of a pencil and it still read either 173 or 176. Can't remember the exact # other than thinking "that thing read just like a zinc penny", so it was one of those two numbers. It was round in shape though and smooth.
I just can't figure out why it read as high as the 3 cent piece when it's much smaller? Maybe the cut off point for a round silver item is around 173 regardless of how small it gets to a certain point before dropping more?
The tiny butterfly pendant I found the other day was perhaps a bit smaller than a dime or at least no bigger, and I think read 159 or 169. It is silver, but I think it's size/shape not being round, not being a loop, and also all the fake stone studding on the front with the bee hive like honeycombing brought it's number down a good bit. I've never dug a silver item of any size that read that low on the Sovereign or other machines I've owned over the years.
Maybe that ring is nickel silver? That stuff isn't really "fake" and is usually marked nickel silver, but it's got more of a white gold or a dull silver look to it and I bet the nickel mixed with the silver makes it read lower. I've seen a few bracelets made of it. Not sure if they make rings with it too.
Or, like he said, something else was in the hole. Scan it again and see what it reads now.
Nice finds. I've had a couple silver come in a bit low for some reason - one was a tone average, the other wasn't. I figured out that the other wasn't a tone average by setting the item back down on the ground, and sweeping my coil over it. It didn't matter what it was on, soil, wood, back porch, etc., it still had the low tone but was .925 silver. That's the only way I know how to learn about the various shapes giving different tones; shape, size, material all have their influence on the tone. I had read about that, but hadn't experienced it. That's only happened maybe twice or three times to me though. With shapes like that ring, I usually get a good silver sound, and then distortion where the woven part is, even if it is a high tone. But this one ring in particular has some tall prongs that hold the stone, and I figured that's what was doing it. Always more to learn... Congrats on the finds!