Dirtdigger33
Active member
In my detecting yesterday I found a ring. I love finding rings and I don’t even care if they turn out to be junkers. Digging up a ring ball and seeing that beautiful curvature of the ring poking through the dirt always gets me excited. I was talking to a friend who has higher end detectors and has been detecting for a while. He says he still has not found a ring. I have found so many rings over the years with my Tesoros and bounty hunters before Tesoros. Some gold, some silver, some junkers. I have never found one stamped PD until yesterday. I looked up PD and found out it stands for Palladium, which is in the Platinum family and is a rare precious metal. I do not know if my ring I found is only Palladium plated or if the PD is the stamp of who made the ring. I have seen Platinum before and it does not tarnish like this ring has tarnish on it. So if it does have Palladium on it. I think it is only plated with Palladium. On second thought after cleaning it up it was shining so brightly I could hardly take a picture of the PD because it was shining so much in the light. I think it is real Palladium or silver with palladium plating because all tarnish or dirt disappeared. Has any one else found any rings stamped PD or PD950? If you have PD950 on a ring it is at least 95% Palladium. Mine does not have 950, just PD. Some rings are also silver and PD plated. Mine does not have an ss mark or 925 stamped on it. I still think it is a cool ring and I learned something new even if it runs out not to be real. I am excited none the less. I will add it to the constantly growing collection of rings found. It is such a small ring. Good luck and HH.
