Metal detector finds

Did a real short hunt at a family members home and came up with a little silver toe ring. The other one is fake and I love the pisces coin. It has a reverse but it's not appropriate, it does have one word provider. Always love finding a wheat,I think that's my 4th one. H H everyone!!!

 

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Yes the small one looks good. Is it stamped?

 

It is stamped and I can see what appears to be numbers. The last one is a 5 so I'm assuming.... But it does look right but I'll have it tested.

 

If you tilt it around under a very bright light and look with a loupe,
you can probably see the remnants of 925 on there.
Silver will shine/clean up with just a little toothpaste. (Any kind but gel.)
Smush it around in your fingers and then wash it off. It will be shinier
and maybe cleaning out the dirt will reveal the 925.
It's one way I can tell if something is real or fake that isn't stamped.
The good stuff will shine up and the junk won't.

 

I tried this on all my silver and it all cleaned up real nice. But I still cannot see anything more then before. I'll go have it checked soon. Going on a big hunt soon,can't wait to get back out..

 

I haven't gotten a half in a while, so that was nice.

 

So I go on a short hunt at my mother-in-law's house. I'm hitting some zinc pennies and a couple quarters.The neighbor next door sees me and walks over and asked me what kind of machine I'm using. I told him and he said he had purchased the Garrett atpro recently. He goes on to explain how he had thrown ashtrays for pennies into his yard and he asked if I could come over and run my machine over where he had done that. So I start going over the yard and within a couple of minutes I had convinced him that they were all pretty much still there by the noise. On the way back I was checking where his yard ends and my mother-in-law starts. Right beside a bush I got the signal on hit the silver ring. If you can see it looks like around the facets of the Stones it's gold. I asked him if he had lost it he said no and I said okay I'm going to keep it and he said that's fine. Needless to say I'm a pretty happy man right now and it was funny because I just went out in the yard to fool around really.. Happy Hunting everyone.

 

Very nice Richard. It is possible that piece that's holding the stone is gold.
What does the lettering (numbers?) inside the ring read because I can't see it very well in the photo.

 

The letters are ISC and TH the other side is 925. I looked and it stands for international silver company. The TH means thousand sheets. When they make Sterling silver they put 925 sheets of silver and 75 sheets of other metals together to make the silver harder.

 

By the way,I found a very affective way to make silver shine bright. Take cigarette ashes and a drip of water and mix. I used a small toothbrush to clean all around then my fingers to rub the ashes hard all over, rinse. It makes the light shine bright on the metal.

 

Light. But I knew it would be as I have cleaned out the whole town and have not given it enough time to refill.

 

The cross is junk. The chain gives me a junky signal. The clasp on the chain is marked 925, it could be real or fake.

 

I believe the clasp is silver and the chain is junk. The cross isn't stamped, it says ITALY which 95% of their religious stuff has fake gold and fake silver stamps on it, so the clasp is stamped to sell the chain as real. My GF will get it tested, but its all junk. The clasp has the right patina for silver.

 

I haven't taken a break in 4 years, but there's just nothing out there right now. I may have to wait till September for some of my spots to fill up a little.

 

and my Better 1/2 shows me up with a small 14k gold ring....and She FOG'd it!

 

Good to get back out there, but the treasure fields are light.

 

Shocking good news. My GF had it tested and the chain and the cross both came back as silver. 8.7 grams, over 1/4 ounce.

 

Good hunt today. The Sacagawea is 2003-P. It must be NIFC
with a mintage of only 3 million.

 

Nice find Richard! I recently found my first ring. Thought it was white gold but alas, it was tungsten. No gold finds yet.

 

The tungstens are nice. With a decent secondary market value, as they are very
expensive retail. I've found 3 of them.
The ones on the left. The ones on the right are stainless steel, I have 2 or 3 others not pictured. I wear the big one on the far right. It fits and I like the design.