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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;J Dagger, post: 1545128, member: 10944&quot;][ATTACH=full]228526[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]228527[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]228526[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]228527[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I’ve never recovered ancient items but as far as I know gold comes out of the ground looking like gold. It doesn’t really tarnish I thought. When something is hundreds and thousands of years old I can’t imagine it wouldn’t be pretty filthy though. I’ve only heard that old gold doesn’t really look any different coming out of the ground. My ring was from 1949 I think it was, so that’s all I have to go on. It still looked brand new and shiny when I took it out. Your ring looks like it could be low carat gold but looks a little more like brass to me. I hope it’s gold for your sake! You can get a an acid test kit on eBay for like $10 and figure it out for sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Silver in my experience either comes out perfect and looking like silver or it comes out totally black. Again all the silver I’ve found is not more than 100 years old so I don’t know what ancient stuff looks like coming out.</p><p><br /></p><p>Huge bummer about your dads coin!!! Where did he find it? It really sucks that gold rings up on metal detectors in the same range as tin foil and pull tabs. The ring I found was a 13 on my machine, the exact same number pull tabs come up as usually. Typically your instinct is to skip those low signals and I often do. It horrifies me to think I’ve passed right over pieces of dropped gold jewelry or coins. Some sites just have sooooooo much garbage that you can’t possibly dig every signal. You wouldn’t move twenty feet all day sometimes. If I’m on a site that has history going back pretty far I’ll dig the low signals because a lot of buttons come up in that area too. The tin foil is a huge pain in the ass because it’s so small and thin that even with a pinpointer it’s hard to find in the dirt and wastes a lot of time sifting to get it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lastly I love all chocolate no matter what it comes in, so long as it’s dark!</p><p><br /></p><p>These are the two photos I could bring up the fastest of my ring find. I unfortunately must have hit it just right with my shovel to split it <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" />. The beach I found it on was “built” and opened in 1951 so the lady probably lost it shortly after she graduated. The face of the ring is sadly missing so I couldn’t try to track her down. I recall this was a bad day personally. It was a good detecting day though. I hit the trifecta. Gold, silver (war nickel), and a Minie ball bullet. Plus a wheat penny bonus.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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