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Amazed this week by the kind of events. Since last Monday, maybe I've been more productive on the wetsand than on the seabed, calculating effort and dedicated time. By the way, a heavy ear ring and a few coins opened the week and Tuesday an eyeballed wedding band and a thinner religious ring dug on the seabed declared the end of the short yellow stripe... Not too bad, considering 13,27 grams of 18K in total, slightly over the weekly minimum I keep in mind to run things in the right way. Have a great weekend You all!

I finally dug something of value. Small gold wedding band. 2.66 grams of 14k. Rang up as 30/31 in the wet sand. You gotta dig the junk to get to the gold.

I almost didn't go on this trip, a potential tropical storm was forecast, but the storm hit far south so it wasn't all that bad, got there safely, and the rain stayed south of us for the most part. It never got really windy, but because of the heavy surf and King Tide, the beach was pretty eroded and in some places very small. The tide only got to low in the afternoon, but it never got all that low and the surf was dangerous. I ended up going out twice later in the day as the beach was really packed by then. I got out early every day, went to different parts of the 11 mile strip, one thing I love about this place is that there are lots of free parking lots, and most of them have either bathrooms or portable facilities and shower stations so I can clean up my gear before going back. Best place to hunt I've ever been. Here's my worst trash day, just an example of what I threw out: The good finds almost always outnumbered the trash. I ended up with a fair amount of bits: Here's all the junk jewelry and odd stuff. The tiny chain is silver. Wish I could have found the rest of it. I dug 121 coins over the 5 days: Nothing spectacular but I'm always shocked at how many dimes I find, the Deus loves them, some were probably near or over a foot deep. I did get a nice silver ring but it was pretty mangled: https://alohajewelryco.com/collections/925-sterling-silver/products/copy-of-925-sterling-silver-6mm-hawaiian-plumeria-flower-scroll-stackable-ring-gold?variant=32542193680484 I straightened it out as best as I could. I did get gold but it was an obligation. I waved my detector over the sand in front of a sign, and got a really loud 96, generally the ID of a toy car, but I dug this small container that contained a ring. It was a nice 10k gold ring, pretty large. There was also a laminated tag with the name of a person, and two years on either side. The container appeared to have sand in it, but I realized immediately it was a funerary urn. 😬 I dug a much deeper hole, put everything back in the container, and re-buried it so that the Deus could not detect it at full power. Luckily no one saw me do it. It's not the strangest thing I've ever found, but certainly the most sad. 😥 Overall not a spectacular hunt but a good one.

That brings me to another question. If you take the natural response of a single frequency machine, would a gold machine like the Gold Racer be better in high aluminum trash areas for cherry picking out gold? I am sure general coin shooting would be trickier as you start to lose the gamut on the higher conductors. Here is the ID scale on the Makro Gold Racer @ 56khz. I have a stupid thought in my head that I maybe able to use that to cherry pick some parks here that are just blankets of aluminum. I have sniped out the easy copper and silver but the can slaw is brutal.

I recently had some doubts in using the main detector and was pondering the possibility of eliminating some by selling. In detail, I complained of some high ID response that I accidentally dug up in the absence of decent signals. The last victorious session, brought me a 6.49-gram 18K wedding ring and by sheer luck, with an amazing 80, I deigned to dig it out. So this morning I decided to go out with a dear old detector, one that doesn't mess around, and the numbers are shocking considering the spot, the devastated condition of the clay and rocks, and lousy visibility. After 4 1/2 hours on the bottom, thanks to the use of hooka compressor, I flushed out 4 pieces totaling 20 "dirty" grams. The numbers speak for themselves, and I am beginning to have clearer ideas.... I will add no more...

Amphibious week is the theme of this latest Friday update that I have been publishing for some time... With a really uncertain weather picture and some pretty impressive waves, I've been trying to take advantage of the first hints of erosion where I could dare.I'm starting to not remember where and under what conditions I've intercepted gold, but I'm keeping a particular focus on continually varying spots. I think I have given a massive cleanup in at least 4 places where in the past two months I seemed to be the only one still finding pieces. Finding a single ring in hundreds of square feet covered on the bottom I am beginning to perceive it as an event of luck rather than skill. So this is a new chapter of wetsand work and diving, alternating according to the will of the sea. Have a great weekend You all 🙏🏼

Transition week this last. A drastic drop in temperature first drove people away from the coast and soon after, announced some movement on the seabed. Still little field exposed in the water, but the first cuts appear on the berm. We will see in the coming days if the energy becomes more intense and efficient. Aside from the usual coins caught on the wetsand when the wave did not allow me to dive, two small pieces open the second week of September with a slight improvement over last week. In total, I'm about 16 grams behind schedule, but for now one can only watch for the first autumn storms and hope for an imminent opening. Have a great weekend You all!

3 in the same hole! Who knew treasure hunting could get so... intimate. Joke aside, I'm very happy with these results. Value-wise, just over $1000 AUD in scrap from maybe 4 hours of detecting. Day 1, I met my friend down at one of our good spots. Very cold. 13 degrees in the water at the moment (55F). Spent a few hours in pretty bad visibility water and I managed to score 1 gold 14ct ring as well as a few other odds. Day 2 (a couple days later though), just as cold, but we knew the tides and swell were going to be PERFECT. For comparison, it's never what I would call 'perfect'. It was flat, calm, no wind, no waves, nothing..for the first hour anyway. I haven't seen it so flat since last week, and before that, years. To line up the tides, visibility and weather is very hard at this spot. We ended up getting in the water before daybreak and I was equip with my Blu3 Nomad and only the light from my Manticore. It's the first time I've used it at this spot as the waves are always too big. I ventured out a bit deeper and didn't find a lot, so came back to the shallower end, about 2 meters deep where most people swim. Boom, started getting coins and bangles and other bits and pieces. One thing I noticed when using such a thick dive hood with the nomad is that it's very hard to hear targets even with the "sound boost" feature, so I found myself mostly looking at the screen and kind of switching between the Nomad and my snorkel. After about 20 minutes, got a nice signal and found a cool ring. I can't remember which one came first but I got 3 rings and a coin! 2 were gold and 1 was a cool little silver snake. I cleared that patch and went over to another rocky section and scored another nice 18ct ring as well as more coins. Great fun! One might ask, "aren't you afraid of sharks???". I'd reply, "Nah, never seen any, it'll be fine". Imagine my surprise when friend messaged me the following day with a video of a shark he spotted around the corner, LOL. Not sure what type it is, but he said it looked harmless. Have tons of videos to edit for Youtube but not enough time unfortunately. I'll get around to it eventually.

Well I didn't do as well as some other person that posted today 😅 but it was another fine day at the beach, I brought the D2 with the 13" for the dry, and hunted until the tide got low. I really didn't expect much, but last week I saw a lot of people come out on Monday, so I thought I'd find something anyway. Did pretty good in the dry, and the last two hours were spent in the water using my second D2 with the 9". I don't have any pics from that because I have to leave a lot of stuff behind in the truck, I can only bring my valet key. In 7 hours out there I managed to get 42 coins, unfortunately nothing older than 1965. This is pretty average for me there. I got two hot wheels (thank God 😏), a little silver key pendant, and the misshapen band in the center is some kind of bracelet or earring dripping with CZ's. The small ring is silver plated and has a couple of stones. I guess someone intended to make earrings out of the shells, they are attached by two stainless keyrings. Oops. My favorite find of the day wasn't stellar, but it is gold plated: A nice ring with CZs that my wife snagged for herself. I found a huge knife in the water along with a few coins but it's been hit a lot lately, probably because I've been posting some pretty good stuff out of there. 🤔 Next week a week long hunt back in the Outer Banks! 😎

This week, unlike last week, it was not the swell that kept me out of the game, but other breakdowns at the surface compressor. Although I adopted scuba tanks from the top, I did not have enough bottom time to produce better. As soon as the compressor problem was fixed, Thursday morning a little more than a gram 18 K earring revived the situation. Yesterday morning through my own fault, I missed a session thanks to the devastating dinner the night before.... To conclude this morning I conducted a blind session with zero visibility and brought home a Casio watch still alive. Really hard to say the feeling after 9 grams less than the week's minimum 😑 Have a great weekend You all.

The week just past, remains more a symbol to pay attention to, than anything memorable in terms of finds. A few coins, found at times when having to stay away from the water and walking along the shoreline, some appearance of a new stretch where to take action soon, but other than that, just great risk and quite a bit of road traveled without fruit. Last Monday, as always at dawn, I enter the water at one of the spots I have been alternating for months. Although the forecast was not so clear, within a quarter of an hour the waves became heavy, then high, then threatening. I get out with difficulty and before I do any damage to my equipment, I abandon the spot and return home. Once again, the surface compressor must have "ingested" water and although this is a brand new engine, problems with the volume delivered begin. Tuesday morning, same spot on the shoreline, but a worrisome new layer declares the games closed. I'll save you the trouble of reading further and end with Saturday morning, then yesterday, with the last area I imagined productive, which exposed some lead, a fake gold earring and little aluminum. No miracles, no conditions...The sea won this time. Good Sunday to all of you.

Went up to the beach yesterday to get a trial run of my Tube Tubb rig in, another early start and a long hunt. I had been to the small beach and saw there were no jellyfish, so I figured there wouldn't be any further up the river. Well I was wrong, the water was loaded with them. 😬 Luckily I brought some long quick dry pants and had no problem. Got a nice 93 and thought to myself "well, another quarter, that's cool!" Along with some clad I ended up with this blackened heavy ring: It's around a Size 4, weighs over 6 grams. It cleaned up nicely, another one for my wife. I'll probably take it to a local jeweler for authentication and further cleaning, Chanel rings usually have specific hallmarks but this one only has "925" and some other obliterated mark, it also appears to have been resized. I'm calling it as fake but 6.2 grams of silver for a ring that small is pretty good. The stones appear to be real but low grade diamonds, they are so small they're hard to test. Here's the trash for the day, didn't dig any in the water but sure did on the beach. I wish I had some tiny toy cinder blocks for the truck, the tires were all gone. 🤣 Ended up with 31 more coins, a few older memorials, but the spot where I've been hitting old stuff is pretty cleaned out now. Got another Lord's Prayer coin in the water. I was in the water for about 3 hours and spent the rest on the beach, locals told me not many people had been there as school is back almost everywhere. There was another guy water hunting, he did the other beach but said he got nothing but coins and had to go way out to get them. He's a nice guy and didn't come over to where I was.

This week, I really have a hard time explaining what happened and I find there is a strange, inconceivable balance in things. Monday morning, in the total absence of any idea or area where there was less sand than around, I return to a spot where although there are obvious rocky spots within sight, no one has dared to approach the flap beyond the shoreline buoys for years. I end up above on an expanse of massive boulders that were probably uncovered long before judging by the seaweed contamination. I stay with the M8 at really minimal sensitivity and almost by accident, dig out three signals not far apart, maybe 10 meters...An hour and I get home because of people swimming around the surface compressor...Damn! Tuesday at dawn I return of course to the exact same place, where by necessity I took reference with compass and signal on the ground not to waste time to intercept the precise area. Nothing, not a single signal left. I was aware that after one such day, 10 more totally different ones follow...Indeed.... On Wednesday I change area and in utter disappointment the surface compressor stops working and I run out of air in the first few meters from shore as I prepare to move away into deeper water. I return to shore to do a brief check and without wasting too much time, I use my snorkel to continue and angrily hold on to the first few meters below the shoreline. I eventually manage to find in the middle of nowhere a decent signal under a 70. It was a small 925 silver engagement ring, very much like a wedding band and for that, really a mockery and no picture of it. I go home with a smile because at any rate, in just one hour Monday, I doubled and exceeded the minimum target this week only to have to engage in deep maintenance... Have a great weekend to all of you

Actually not much to report for this week, if anything the M9 had a fairly quick break even with three rings under its belt. Two of the three, were recovered last week and thus not new, but the third turned up Tuesday morning after sunrise buried well over 10 inches...No wonder, considering the 7.77 grams of 14K. Bad surprise was the acid test, where just the heaviest one turned out to be 9K complete with a 585 mark typed inside. A real scam into which the owner also fell, because inside it bore the bride's name and thus a fake wedding band or at least passed off as 14K but with much less real value. (This ring appears next to the M9 logo). About the M9, there is little to be done, once in the dive, exceeding 20 points of sensitivity with beach LC, is out of question.With the M8, one can dare a few more points and given the non-appearance of broken bracelets or necklaces, I will return to use it soon. Definitely the M9 is more akin to rings, but not to links in bracelets and necklaces. Have a great weekend to all of you!

Got out to my big beach today, long hunt. The only other detectorist I saw today was in the water. He checked in with me later kinda disappointed, but he did get one ring. 👍 Nice guy. Got out there early, beautiful morning, weather was great and Debby had just trashed the place. The flood line was higher than I've ever seen it, but it was high tide when I got there so the lower cut wasn't visible. Hung out there 7 hours, talked to people, and just bashed around on the higher beach until the tide got low, then hunted the waters edge. I did pretty good, only got 40 coins today instead of the 60 last week, no silver, but some of my other finds were pretty impressive. The large aluminum token has a gear shape stamped in it, and says "50" on the top and "FIFTY" on the bottom. No clue what it might be for. Got the usual toys and bling, including a pretty nice plated ring. Glad I'm still on my Hot Wheels streak. 🙄 Trash was pretty heavy, lots of lead and some hot rocks that hit in the 80s on the D2. My favorite find of the day was this working, stainless Michael Kors watch for my wife, they sold for around $250. I'd say it paid for my gas and parking 😎

Well, this time last monday, with still low visibility I've been lucky enough to intercept a cleaner water spot where in the really shallows some clay and rocks were keeping two ear rings at a good distance one from the other.B Both 18k marked but the bigger in white gold. Tuesday, in the hope to find more and not keeping memory of the brutal almost 4 hours to bring home 2 dirty grams the day before...I've been back there to find a doubtful round charm with a missing image in the middle..I can clearly see a strong glue dot and in spite of an immaculate appearance and 18K-ish colour, it will be tested to call it a win... So 1.99 grams pending... Wednesday far from that area but another time in a too small clay patch, something similar to a miracle happened... A tiny open hoop yellow 18K ear ring right above a thin broken bracelet...So the ear ring signal made possible to see it in the same water moved hole...I tell You, I realised just leaving the area overtired in my ears due to crap of any sort and when back in my car, that all of them were 18K. Thursday and last session of the week cause of usual late arriving of swells after last hurricane near You upthere, I ended up in another beach where still today and maybe December there is and will be too much sand after last winter miracle of rocks in sight...Three hours and a tiny 18K white band to leave happily the spot to dawn warriors swimmers....If I just could had a grenade sometimes...But that's another story 🏴‍☠️ All of this with my self repaired and again trusted M9...But today I'm back to my first Mlove8... On Monday the battle restarts 🤞 Have a great week end You all and stay safe!

Last Monday I tried to go to my local big beach, found after 4 days of feeling miserable that I probably had a bad bout of AFib, I had invited Chase down but had to leave early. Not much that day. 😵 Today I felt much better and hit the road at 6am to get there by 7. Today may well be the last hot day for quite a while, but it was 74 this morning, so I figured I could make a day of it. It was cloudy and kind of foggy when I got there, I was hoping for low tide but got a bonus - an exceptionally low tide and completely flat river. 🥳 The only thing I regret was that I was not prepared to go in the water, but the jellyfish are active. I was the only beach hunter today, and made the most of it, covering a couple miles of beach, from the waterline to the sidewalks. I did run into a water hunter later who told me he wasn't having much success with jewelry, but he got a couple dollars worth of coins. This beach has 4 spots, one in front of a motel, one in front of restaurants and condos, one really big one further down, and one about a mile down the road. By about 11 am the sun was coming out, but I still felt good enough to keep going. The tide had gone really low, exposing areas I could generally only cover in the water. I ended up at the last beach before the tide came in, same story. It turned out to be a pretty good day, here's the trash: Not much really, most were sight picks. I even got a 1965 quarter which was my first coin find. Always have a laugh over that. I dug 60 coins today, including a lot of nickels. A few of them were really deep, and I found one spot that they just kept coming out of. My favorite find today among the nickels was a 1947 Roosevelt dime, I have found a couple of Mercs in this spot recently as well. A lot of old pier was exposed there. Last the other stuff: Some plastic toys, a couple of toy cars, a really old key in the same spot as the Roosevelt dime, a cheap ring and a couple of pendants, one with Turquoise and the other my wife's first initial. I definitely made up for last Monday, and as usual this beach had a surprise in store for me 🙂

Unlike usual, this time the weekly wrap up starts last Saturday and ends today.... With a seabed still stressed from the last swell, less-than-stellar visibility, and tons of new sand to make August exactly as usual, I pulled up a solitaire that I initially mistook for steel and discovered to be 18-karat white gold. I spent only a few seconds retrieving it and putting it away, only to proceed to the exit and leave bored after three hours. 2.20 grams, which I happily chose, being a perfect size for my woman. This ends today, with a very similar session and just 1.99 grams in two earrings.... Typical of this summer period, it alternates between absolute zero and little, unlike late spring where on the contrary, empty days alternated with balanced grams. End of story for this week... Tired as usual ... but fighting as well... Have a great w.e. You all!

Okay, this time more than celebrating a period of good production, I am keeping in mind the worst dates of this summer and taking action for next year.... Although we are only a month away from peak beach attendance, to date, I have encountered more than three weeks of bad swells and have spent few sessions on the bottom and more time at the wetsand. As expected, the result is that the fresh drops are probably too deep to manifest themselves and a few pieces of really old gold, perhaps not caught in the obviously eroded spots, is all I can take away for now. Last Monday this very old ring, now devoid of stone, was the only prominent piece on the seafloor besides several coins dug out at three different beaches on the wet sand. In miles of sand on which I have walked and checked, not a single piece of gold and a very small amount of coins when diluted over so much space. The prevailing wind is screwing up "my" coast with a majority of inshore and bloody filling in more sand. I am tired beyond comment and have started using my left arm to lead the detector. I fear I have epicondylitis. Have a great weekend everyone!

Week started not great when I think about the fact that for about 15 days bad waves kept me out. It wasn't until yesterday that I was able to dive safely when I discovered I had a serious instability problem with the coil. The M9 was making terrible noise at whatever level I set the Manticore and by pure chance I managed to pull out three stainless steel rings before leaving the area in despondency. Back home, it was not until yesterday afternoon that I was able to see that I had a cut on the coil cable with the wires exposed. This morning with the M8 back at work, in disbelief, I unearthed an 18K snake ring among the same holes as yesterday, where I had most likely passed by without noticing the signal among all the perceived noise. Ever since I started visiting old spots with the M8, this has been the longest period without seeing gold also accomplice to the bad wave energy. Monday, it's back to the drawing board. Have a great weekend everyone and stay safe!

I started again last October to hunt full time almost every day, storms permitting and with a bad back. Like every year, this period of heavy sand accumulation on the beach finally arrived I would say late. For about two weeks now, the only targets within reach have been a few really deep coins and an inordinate amount of aluminum. Although I always manage to find a depression or an eroded section, these are a few obvious and over-beaten spots, the same ones that first ever allow fresh drops to be recovered but not even in this case have I been able to encounter new material. It had been seven years since I had experienced this feeling, very similar to stepping into the ring at dawn and taking punches, then starting again the next morning and yet another one to follow. We'll see when the next piece of gold shows up....

We've had a spell of hot weather here on the East Coast, but if you get up early enough it's not bad, and you can get off the beach before it fills up. Hit my local (ha, an hour drive one way) beach yesterday hoping to do a water hunt, as yet the jellyfish have not appeared, or are very few. I got there at 7am and decided to hunt the dry first, there had to be a lot of activity because it's the day after the 4th of July weekend. The river was flat and I had a few hours to low tide. For the dry hunt I used the 13" coil. I can sort of get away with dunking it a little deeper than the 9" or 11", in about 5 inches of water I'll lose the signal. Did pretty good there, all the usual toys and coins. A guy came rushing out on the beach with his detector while I was out there, said something about how much it sucked that I was there, threw his stuff back in the car and went to another place 🤷‍♂️. Cool, all the more for me I guess. 🙄 At about 10 it started to get hot, but a breeze came up, so I got my other D2 with the 9" and antenna, and the new float sifter I wanted to test. I bought this one not even thinking that the mesh was stainless, my bad, as the coins and other stuff come up pretty much the same color as the rocks, so they are hard to see, and you can't pinpoint because stainless. 🤔😏 I'm going to either try and get some plastic mesh for it, or return it and get the fabulous Tube Tubb that costs about twice as much. 🤬 Here's the crap, keeping it real for y'all. I did find a big VW Microbus toy that I gave to a little kid, his parents were thrilled, and I got some space in my bag. I like doing that. It was a great karma day, a woman offered me a cold bottle of water while taking to her about detecting. Came away with enough to justify the $3 an hour parking I guess: A couple of toy cars, the Mercedes was over a foot deep in the wash and kept banging 95+. A few of the coins were deep too, I must not have a lot of minerals or salt in the water at the edge because they were 3 scoops or more to get to them and I had my big stainless scoop this trip. I don't see that shift in ID - ever, particularly with dimes and quarters. Jewelry was sparse but not bad, I scored a 4g silver band, and some unidentified metal ring that my wife likes. It's beat up but should polish nicely. Cool looking but no hallmarks. The earring was disappointing, turned out to be 14k over brass, it has a stone in it but it's probably CZ. It finally rained a bit, so I got a nice rainbow photo, an end to a pretty good day.

Turf hunting can be tough, especially when it gets hot and gravity seems to be increasing based on what my knees tell me. My left thumb has developed soreness from digging so many holes. Sounds like I'm getting old! What's the cure? A little gold! On July 1, I went back to the same soccer park that gave up the heavy 14k on June 28. I tried my best to squeeze out another ring from the same area, but it was not meant to be. I went across the parking lot and started swinging around the soccer goal perimeter and then into the goal itself. I was using the 15" coil on the Equinox 800, so the metal goal was messing with my detection ability. I got a signal of around a 12 right in the corner of the back of the goal. Out popped a ring that at first I thought was titanium. Upon closer inspection (thank you to the inventor of the zoom on the camera in a phone), a 14k appeared--my first white gold! I got the same signal immediately after the ring, just about a foot away. That time it was aluminum. 😱 Today I was fishing with my 20ish son, and we were catching nothing. He has more grit for catching nothing, so I said he could keep fishing and I would dig for a bit seeing we were at a park already. 😉 About 5 minutes after letting him be on his own, I dug what I though was a copper ring. Only after seeing the front more closely did I have a hint it was just 10k doing what it does. After rubbing a bit, it showed its true colors. It's strange how I went a whole year without finding gold, and all of a sudden I had three within about a week. I guess that's why we do what we do!

Keeping the summertime rolling, got out early this morning to my small beach. We had some rough storms yesterday so I hoped some stuff got stirred up. Normally I'd chicken out if there are waves, but some light training with 2' waves seemed ok to me because I'm going to a very big beach soon, and may water hunt. I saw a few small jellyfish today so the season is starting here soon. Detecting will be dry only because it's too hot to wear waders. I was wearing the 5mm neoprene socks in my water shoes again, the silt here is much finer, so I wanted to see if they would keep the fine stuff out and they did. 👍 I was only there for about 4 hours, people started showing up before I was done. I grid searched the water between the fingers in the photo, there are 4 similar sections. The water is a little more than waist deep at the end of the fingers. I was using the D2 with the 9" coil and the BH-01 bone phones, there isn't a lot of aluminum there so I didn't mind being forced to full tones. That way I could fully dunk the detector. Ended up with a small amount of trash: Typical beach junk, I try to get the bottle caps out and any sharp junk aluminum. Visitors don't know how good they have it! 😎 Got a few coins out there, at first I thought one of the quarters might be silver but it's a 1979. Oh well. Just at the wash I got a solid 50, and thought "please don't be aluminum!" It wasn't. A recently dropped silver chain (925) with a silver decorated Islamic sword, called a "Zulfiqar" sword. Not sure what the text says. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulfiqar Another good water hunt! 🥳 I'm curious, going to air test each piece and see which dragged the other down. 50 is odd for silver, but the chain could have done that. 🤔

Got out today to a local soccer park and had 45 minutes before the rain ran me off. At about the 30 minute mark, the Equinox 800, running in Park 1 with the 15" coil, hit a variable 22-24 signal. Those in-the-know realize this is not a typical signal. Too high for a zinc penny and too low for a dime. Thought it might be a screw top, but it caused me to have a giddy feeling as I knelt down to locate it with the Garrett carrot. Upon digging around it and flipping the plug, my first thought was that it was a gold- tone stainless ring because I have been disappointed before. That was until I picked it out and realized that it looked more real than not, and the weight was promising. My finger cleared enough mud for my phone camera to see 14K. I put it on my pinky and continued to detect until getting rained out. When I got home, I was able to see the name and date in the inside of the ring. I have done some looking for the owner, but it only has a first name and date. I think a reunion is possible. This week has been productive: my first silver and then gold ring since moving to Minnesota a year ago. The small gold ring in the pics is my own wedding band. The gold is worth about $580-my biggest single gold find by far.