Stopped by the park, and hit a silver ring real quick. I took that as a harbinger telling me i should keep going. A few raindrops, but it stopped before it got started. I'd been digging tab after tab when I had the thought that someone careless must have lost a gold ring here, and a moment later, I got a kind of weak, hesitant, high foil read on my whites eagle. I pulled a clod of dirt and roots out of the hole that was making my pinpointer beep, and i could see a band, it was broken and dark near the break, and i thought its not gold, then i saw the front of the ring, and that looked like real gold. It's marked 14k.
Breaks in gold bands are common and broken bands can give a weak signal, and can read low, close to foil. Refitted bands are cut and then soldered with a low karat solder which may stain as the alloys migrate to the surface, possibly fooling us briefly into thinking the ring is plated.
This ring has a gold solder repair to the band near the front table. It's a fairly thin-walled casting and there must have been a cavity or bubble in the band; the ring still has a small hole in the band opposite the solder patch. That solder patch, like the one where the band was cut, is also stained.
About a 3 point diamond with a sort of shallow cut and wide table, so I'm guessing maybe a Princess cut..what do I know? It does not fluoresce. I can see at least one inclusion with a loupe, but it looks like a pretty good diamond as far as I can tell, clear and white, though quite small.
The other ring is sterling, not sure about the style of the cross. someone is selling one on etsy, says the lady she got it from said it was made in the 60s. Inside its stampd, in small numbers 925 and in big numbers 103
Melt value of the gold ring yesterday...about $168.
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