Sold a couple of 14k bands, some silver.

[Dancer]

Nothing, real big but happy with the pay out. Sold all my Silver coins I found this year. Wasn't going to, but they wasn't worth more than scrap. They'll get made into something else.

Two thoughts I always hear about selling finds. My brother says he's going to wait till the price goes up. Well he didn't sell when the price was high, so what's the point?
Second, we all know a story like this. Ma & Pa holds on to everything. They pass on. The kids, pick the place clean. Find out they could have lived a lot better if they sold. Remember, if you don't spend / use it. You can bet someone else will.

Moral. "Leave Nothing !" Blackbeard

 

[Grilled Scallops]

I have kept all my rings. They are my trophies. Sometimes I just dig way too much trash to justify letting a gold band go for 50 bucks. Mostly what makes me keep them are the memories, I want to show them to my kids/grandkids when I'm withered, have them ooh and ahh at them and then depending on whether life has made me a scrooge or not I'll sell them all at once and get myself a big vacation or hand them down in my will...with the additional clause that they are not to be sold Also, I have found some nice men's rings that I wear a lot. I think of it as, "I'm wearing a ring that retails for $700" rather than "I'm wearing a ring which scraps for $150." I have a few hundred bucks in clad that I need to run through a tumbler, I'll definitely spend that though once I get it cleaned up.

 

[Wandering Yoda]

Like Grilled Scallops, I've never sold any of the "goodies". And dirty, filthy clad, goes into the Lortone laundry, and then rejoins the great coin ebb and flow in Commerce USA. Hopefully dahut won't mind me doing this, but reprinted below is what I think is one of the funniest musings on William Shake "dig-a-lot" speare's eternal, "To save it or sell it, that is the question" ......................................................



To me, using my finds money for mundane things like laundry, or dining out is verboten.
That money should be duly hoarded. Every now and then, when the family is asleep, you should quietly steal over and peer at it.
Wringing your hands and cackling is utterly acceptable.

The detectorist over his hoard is joined at that moment with Midas himself.
He is Charon, looming over the souls beside the River Styx.
The Leprechaun King, and he, are kindred spirits.
Treating the hoard like some common piggy bank, well... It's tossing all the avarice of ten thousand years right out the proverbial window.
Egads, man!!

Should the money ever be spent - that money grubbed and hard scrabbled from the earth - it should be to obtain only two things:

1. More and/ or better detecting gear (preferably more).
2. More elusive and dear items, he might not otherwise obtain.

Gold coins, silver rounds and ingots, jewels, high quality knives, guns, watches, etc....All are perfect choices, made better when
gotten at anything below retail.
Equipment, if that is the choice, should only enhance ones ability to find MORE treasure for the hoard. Pickup trucks are authorized, by the way.

Squandering the hard earned hoard on trivial, everyday expenses is sacrilege.
Better to eat beans, or wash your clothes on a stone, than to see the hoard treated so poorly.

- Dahut 2014

 

[John-Edmonton]

The older I get, the more it makes sense. I am saving for my second car now. Below is my first car I bought in 2011.

 

[Dancer]

I remember you cashing in for that car. That had to be a feeling.

 

[horikindaguy]

The older I get, the more it makes sense. I am saving for my second car now. Below is my first car I bought in 2011.

that's a lot of rings. just curious as to how many troy ounces they melted down to?

and how many years did it take to find all of that? are your ring finds decreasing since them or improving with better detectors (like the ATX)?