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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bcuda, post: 4614561, member: 105389&quot;]As most of the regular members here on the ancient forum know, I had to sell off a large majority of my coins and artifacts I had found metal detecting while living in Spain.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well today I was cleaning out an old desk full of old papers and I found this old pic. Although it is not a coin it is one of my most memorable moments metal detecting.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is a Roman signet ring (1st-2nd century AD) with a red carnelian stone in it. The stone has engraved into it from the left a wolf, fish, and rabbit. I can only imagine the life story of the original owner of this ring, if I were to guess I would think this person might have loved to hunt or possibly this was His profession.</p><p><br /></p><p>I remember very well the day I found it like it was yesterday. It started out with me getting up early to go metal detecting with another metal detector Guy by the name of George, whom I had never gone detecting with before. We had both agreed to show each other a spot of ours to each other. So I took Him to a really good spot and we found quite few coins, Then it was His turn to take me to a spot of His. He took me to a spot that was terrible with no finds at all so I said to Him come on I showed you a good spot do the same, so He took me to another spot. I had found a few coins and was working around an old Roman water well. My metal detector would make different sounds depending upon what metal it was, one sound that was almost always a disappointment was the sound for lead, aluminum foil and gold almost always it was some little piece of roman lead. Close to the well I heard that sound from my detector that I hated so much but dug it up anyway like always that way I could get rid of it and never have to dig it up again in the future. When I was pushing away the wet sticky dirt I saw what looked like the gold foil to a candy bar wrapper but upon further cleaning I realized it was real gold that had such a weird color compared to modern diluted gold. I started shaking really bad and had to sit down I pulled out my Cigarettes and lit one and then another. Meanwhile George had noticed me sitting down and asked me if I was ok, I told George I just felt dizzy and left it at that. I did not tell George what I had found so He would not be kicking Himself for showing me the spot. I never went detecting with George&nbsp; ever again cause I had two other friends I always went with, but that was a day to remember for sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope you like my story.</p><p><br /></p><p>Picture is of poor quality sorry.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1142898[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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