Yeah a ring is a ring is a ring...
Can you inagine how many junk items you DO go through before you hit a nitro ring. On land, it is in the thousands, I assure you. Thats why I have taken to water hunting as often as possible. In the future, dont be afraid to show your trash and junk finds too. It balances things out for the rest of us!
Nevertheless, you did well. Anytime you snag 50 coins per trip and hit a ring in the bargain - that is good.
But lets address your obsession for a moment, shall we? Ask yourself just HOW BAD you want a ring. Do you want it bad? I mean REALLY bad? Bad enough to do something drastic?
If yes, then change your method. From here out, set up your detector to only respond to the DISC segments between foil and zinc cent.
Before you howl in outrage at what you will be missing, or the gazillions of pulltabs you'll find, stop and think.
The vast majority of gold jewelry falls into this range, right? At $1000/ounce, doesnt gold seem the thing you should focus on, if that is what you favor? In other words, spend less time digging US issued tokens, er, coins, and you will have more time for those targets that are most likely to be gold.
Besides, hit one nice ring, just one, and you can sneer at those coins.
There used to be a guy on this forum, Ralph, who hunted just this way and he was astounding with the rings he found. His detector? You guessed it; an Ace 250.