Dumb Luck But I’ll Take It

[The Seeker]

The socal storm came and went but I still decided to go out today. I went out just hoping for wheat back and that was all. The hunt started  very slow but I wasn’t surprised since the beach was sanded in. I hunted one spot for about an hour and then call it quits since I wasn’t finding much. I walked south a couple hundred feet and so a few rocks barely exposed so decided to do a little gridding. My second target was the broken class ring. After that I found aluminum and few pennie’s I kept going since I had already found more than I was expecting. Later I stayed finding fishing weights. I got this high VDI (in the 90’s) signal on the manticore and dug a pyramid fishing weight. I checked the hole again and found another fishing weight, a long one this time. I rechecked the hole once more and found a buffalo nickel. I kept gridding this particular area but couldn’t find anything else besides fishing weights and more pennies. 
 

I wasn’t feeling anymore here so I decided to go North. I went further north than where I started. This particular spot didn’t have anything special about it but I decided to grid it. I started finding a few coins, some pennies mixed with quarters and nickels. Around an hour later I hit the small 14k ring with 12 diamond chips. As this point a was ecstatic so the rest of the hunt didn’t really matter but just kept going. I spent another 30 minutes there and found two silver dimes (I think one is a barber).

 

After this place I decided to go check out this one spot further north. I walked for a long time doing a zig zag but didn’t find anything. I even stopped at another place showing a few rocks but nothing showed up besides aluminum. At this point I was done so I turned around. I looked where I came from and picked a straight line to detect on my way back. I walked for a while and got this loud signal with a 94 VDI. I shoved my scoop about 4-6” down and pulled it out. Checked the hole and the target was in the scoop. I tossed it and this silver disk popped out. It was a Franklin half and I just couldn’t believe it. I checked the area around it and there were no other heavy targets so I turned off the detector and called it a day. Thanks for looking and good luck out there.

 

I believe this year is the year of the broken rings, I think I have around 7 of them already. Would you counted as a ring or just a piece of gold?

[rvpopeye]

?   It's a ring ! Broken or not.

Nice batch of finds . And a half dollar that had your name on it .

That was a good day .

 

 

[midalake]

5 hours ago, The Seeker said:

This particular spot didn’t have anything special about it but I decided to grid it. I started finding a few coins, some pennies mixed with quarters and nickels. Around an hour later I hit the small 14k ring with 12 diamond chips.

Sounds like skill to me! ?

[King-Of-Bling]

Busted up gold is just that. I've always counted it as a piece. But hey , Gold is Gold !

[Valens Legacy]

Great read with some very nice finds, and if it is bent, broken, or just off the showroom floor it is still a ring.

Good luck on your next hunt and stay safe out there.

[Rick N. MI]

Can't beat getting gold and silver.

[GB_Amateur]

16 hours ago, The Seeker said:

Would you counted as a ring or just a piece of gold?

I'll turn the question around to you and other jewelry detectorists:  how many ring finds are sold for more than bullion value?  Does it only count as a ring if it actually brings (in a real transaction) value over bullion?

Your Franklin half probably only has bullion value, given its condition, even if it's a scarce date+mm.  It's still a silver coin, right?

Quite a successful hunt!

[CPT_GhostLight]

Way to persevere, Seeker, it paid off big time! Well done!

[The Seeker]

14 hours ago, King-Of-Bling said:

Busted up gold is just that. I've always counted it as a piece. But hey , Gold is Gold !

In the past I have counted it as broken ring not an actual one. I just wanted to see what others counted them as.

3 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

I'll turn the question around to you and other jewelry detectorists:  how many ring finds are sold for more than bullion value?  Does it only count as a ring if it actually brings (in a real transaction) value over bullion?

Your Franklin half probably only has bullion value, given its condition, even if it's a scarce date+mm.  It's still a silver coin, right?

Quite a successful hunt!

There’s a lot of people that count even silver and other non precious metals as part of their ring count for the year. I was just wondering on this forum what pieces of gold rings were counted as. I personally, only count gold rings.

 

As far as silver coins, if it’s as a whole even if thin I count them. If it’s broken/cut in half I don’t count them. When it comes to Spanish silver, I don’t have to worry about it since I will probably never find any as a beach hunter ?