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Well Joe. I like what you find. Toasty at high 30s ... you gotta be tough! A lot to be learned from that statement. What's the market like for old class rings? Is there a premium above the other jewelry? Are there collectors? Mitchel

They have all been put together here.

This is where you get your data for your Google Earth layers. https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php

Not as many as you might think except for Franconia and Gold Basin. Lunk finds them in other places too like many others. Before you go back to an area to look for nuggets you can look at a map of all the finds. You can download all of them to Google Earth and you can see when and where the original finder made their discovery.

You are much more likely to get the response you need from Kelly Co themselves. Years ago a friend asked me where to buy a detector to give as a gift. He wanted to call up a store and have someone suggest a detector for someone new to detecting and within certain price ranges. It was going to be primarily a beach machine. Most everyone on this forum has nugget hunting detectors so I told this friend who is in the entertainment business to call Kelly Co. They did and they were very satisfied with the entire transaction. The buyer and the recipient of his gift had never used a metal detector before. It was a new detector and I don't know what kind now. You should contact KellycoDetectors here on Steve's site. That is a user's name. Mitchel

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Lunk Happy Golden New Year Mitchel

Tony, Your finds are quite remarkable. Some of that may be the result of your YouTube training but there is only so much you can learn from watching a video. Chase gave you a very good reply. The language (audio and screen) of Nox is pretty 'pure.' There isn't much slang or accent but it does require a bit of concentration. Use patience and listen to the full sound and then interrogate the target with short swings, fast swings and slow swings. Listen as the different parts of the coil go over it. Look at the screen numbers and maybe make an adjustment or go to your User ID that uses more discrimination than your 'find a target' settings. We all get iffy targets but after many hours of use they are less and less iffy and more and more 'I think I know what that is!' Mitchel

I started buying BLU phones after I lost (I left it at a metal detecting club meeting and it was not returned) a Samsung. That was about 3 years ago. I got this new phone after I dropped my old model into wet sand and it would not charge properly. The old model was not a very good camera. This phone and camera are quite surprising and some of the photos I've taken you can zoom into the sky or distance and still get quite good detail. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VB5LDD1

I couldn't see any. I would think they are czs and it is made in China (I've seen similar) but all of those were marked and this one is not but it cleaned up like silver. The silvers I've found that are just plate seem to fall apart more than this one does.

And finally, the first ring I found ... 2.5g that was the hardest to clean.

Hand I tried it on one of my big ears. I thought it too loose and automatically just went to squeeze it tighter and that is what it did. Maybe it is a higher silver content product so that it can bend and tighten on an ear. These would be sold in the area by shop keepers that would hand make them thus the scratching of the 925. I've read that you can use that mark or call something sterling if it is higher content.

And now for the other ring.

The wife is right! What do I know. haha Written inside of the ring it says 925 but it also has the word cuff which I can't make come out clearly with a photo. You can bend the open end ring closed and make it tighter.

Here is a picture of the makers marks with my new phone! I could never do this with the old one.

Thanks for the info. There are a couple of maker marks. I'll try to get a picture before I clean it. I thought this material looks like synthetic turquoise. It looked much better wet because that hid some of the scratches. As to the ear cuff, I'd never heard that term before and I looked it up. I'll give some thought to it but it might be too heavy itself. That piece weighs 9.4 grams.

Happy New Year Your adventures inspire me. I was hoping for one last gold for the year but it wasn't to be. I think with more time there was one there in my grid pattern. I really had to slow down with the 11 to catch the sounds. For a while during this hunt I felt 'naked' without the 15 because the target stays under the coil longer so I can hear it. The 11 can punch deep. The last ring was down in the wet sand 10 inches or so. It is been a while since I saw the word 'sterling' in a ring. Is that any age indication? There is no .925 mark on the ring.

RR, Do you just run out onto a field without permission and haul away 'stuff' and expect to keep it? What if the farmer said "You weren't 'bird watching' as much as you were watching me plow my field and you had no 'right' to go out there and take my coins without permission." Mitchel

Late this afternoon I managed to shirk some of my fatherly responsibilities and go out for a couple hours of hunting. I had gone a couple of days ago to one of my best beaches and was surprised at finding very little. Today was a bit different. I managed to find some beach with a cut but it had been hunted. Whomever hunted it had neatly put their trash back in the holes. I was coming upon them probably 5 hours after they had been dug. Knowing this I didn't stick very close to the cut and worked wetter sand on a lower tide. It wasn't the greatest but I managed a 19 number with the 800/11 and it turned out to be the first ring. The second ring was down in much wetter sand. It gave a weird sound almost like a chain but it is 'open' without a setting or markings. I'll have to clean it a bit and see if it is silver like the first ring. The 3rd ring was a 13. It is junk but still a ring. Just at sunset when I was heading back I got a high (above 30) sound and worked it and dug the ring marked STERLING. It is 11.5 g. So I had a 4 ring hunt to finish the year. I'll take it. Mitchel

I wonder when the find was made ... which month I mean. Would he keep it secret for a few weeks or months?

Coinboy, My relatives on my grandmother's side hail from Lansing, Iowa. When you read the history of the Mississippi River you know some old coins were used and lost in the early trading days. Good on you for finding all those saves. Mitchel

Enjoy the retirement and if you run across a patch or two good on you. I think relaxation is kin to patience when you are seeking nuggets these days. Detect where you camp and put a shot or two in your morning coffee. Mitchel in Southern California

After the Reale what was your next best find and so on ...

My best Tiffany find was perhaps a bracelet with silver and pearls that I found in a street gutter when I was doing a lot of running. Apparently someone had broken it getting in/out of their car and the string and pieces were not together. I sent it to Tiffany to replace a couple of pearls and a $150 later I had a $900 bracelet. The only thing 'bad' about them was the tumble their stock took this year. I don't know if it recovered.

That's a nice day. Well done. Our 'storm' was not that much in the way of waves at my beach. It was the hardest rain I've ever been in to find less than $.20!