Lost Wedding Ring Found

Last summer I got a call from a friend who needed some help to find his wedding ring.  He had been working in his back yard and threw something and his ring went flying off his finger.  He heard it hit a branch of a small fruit tree.  He search for it but could not find it.  Of course I was glad to help search for it, why not I love that kind of thing.  It only took 15 to 20 minutes before I located it.  If I can help you find something, let me know.

Competition Continues - Week 3

The metal detecting competition works like this, recovered objects are worth points:  Garbage is worth the least amount of points, then junk jewelry, next is modern coinage, silver jewelry, old coinage (the older the better), gold jewelry, and gold coinage, and finally gold jewelry with mounted diamonds is worth the most points.  So far we haven't had to worry about points for gold coins or jewelry with diamonds.
I thought I had a strong showing at the end of our Saturday hunt.  I had managed to find a dog rabies tag, a 5 year pin, some junk jewelry, a good pile of modern coins and my 3 wheat pennies.
Dad had a respectable amount of coins, and he found a nice little silver CTR ring.  The competition was going to be close, until a "V" nickel was discovered in his pile of coins.  Dad takes it again.

A "V" trumps 3 wheat pennies

I want to find older coins.  It used to be if the coins were deeper than three inches I would just leave them.  Now I want to find coins that are deeper because the deeper you go the older they are.  Now because I am hunting in public parks I usually don't find any old coins, but Saturday I pulled three wheat pennies out of the same hole.  They were about six inches deep.  I was feeling pretty good about my coins until I started looking at my Dad's finds.  He had a nickel that was so dirty it showed no detail at all.  I rinsed it and took a look at it with the magnifying glass and could barely make out a 907.  The placement of the date was different than both the Jefferson and Buffalo nickels.  A quick Google search reveal the nickel to be a 1907 "V" nickel.  That was exciting!  Brushing the coin with my toothbrush and water eventually removed most of the dirt.  I would have to say this nickel was way better than my three wheat pennies.

Collections

It is funny how collections of different items start to emerge the longer you metal detect.

Zipper Pulls

Pins, barrettes, junk jewelry

Button

Keys

Junk Rings

Tokens

Big coins, foreign and smashed coins

Cars

Lead objects

Bullets and cartridges

My personal favorite: silver and GOLD jewelry

Year-to-date Totals

Quarters = $81.50
Dimes = $55.50
Nickels = $8.50
Pennies = $7.47
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Total = $132.97

Now if you take that amount and divide it by my hourly average of $.50, you can see how much time I have waisted (about 266 hours?).

Variety of Finds from Memorial Day

The weather on Memorial Day did not turn out to be the best.  We had snow, hail, and rain off and on throughout the day, but the finding was good.  I found a good stack of coins, including the mercury dime, a whistle, watch, keys, buttons, brass fittings, a sacagawea dollar, a pirates island game token, hello kitty charm, and a small silver CTR ring.  Does that look like 8 hours of work?  I had a hard time quitting.

And the Pull-Tab award goes to Dad

Dad's finds are left of the big nail and mine are to the right.

Okay, there is some competition between me and my dad to see who can find the coolest thing.  As you can see from the picture, we also dig a lot of garbage.  We could opt to just dig up quarters, dimes, and pennies because our metal detectors indicate what kind of target it has found, but here is the dilemma: if you want to find the gold rings and nickels, you have to dig pull-tabs.  For some reason nickels, gold rings and pull-tabs all sound the same.

As you can see from the picture, my dad dug a lot of pull-tabs trying to find something cool.  He did find a ring, but it wasn't made of gold or silver.  He also found the biggest lead slide sinker I have ever seen.

My best finds were a couple wheat pennies and a watch.