18kRonin
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7 hours in, digging flutey wavering Excal tones, a couple of good keepers already in the pouch and finding it hard to keep a tight grid (was starting to lose all sense of direction from getting pushed around by waves for too long) so headed in for a break, got to knee deep water and got another hard to centre flutey Minelab tone 3 scoops and whatever it was, was in the scoop didn't sound that good sounding off in the high gold range and a bit too big to be true BUT looked in the scoop and holy sheet!!! What I saw floored me couldn't believe what I was looking at a Honker no!!! a Monster no!!! Bigger than a Monster so for lack of a better work decided to call it "Frederick" from Patti Smiths song "Frederick". "All the dreams I've waited for... Frederick your the one". Anyway you had to be there 
http://youtu.be/0up7LlExhIo
At first sight thought it was gold from the design as I had gotten a couple in the past but smaller, then after a closer look found it just had a rusty gold and green tarnish and under that was silvery grey but too heavy to be sliver so headed back to the car for a closer look and found an 850 stamp WOW!!! Plat baby 38g of the stuff. By this time I needed something to still my beating heart so wolfed down a bowl of rice topped with the best marinated steak I've ever tasted and headed back to the water hunting for another 4 hours finding 2 more good keepers till I'd covered all the beach and headed home.
Went to sleep thinking about it and woke up 6 hours later still thinking about it. Never thought I'd find a ring bigger than last winter's find.
http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=173888
BIG Plat crossed off the bucket list and find a ring bigger than Frederick put in it's place. Probably never happen but you never know. I'll clean it up and post the pics later.
Might take me a little while to get over this stellar find please bear with me
Thanks for viewing,
HH&GL
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http://youtu.be/0up7LlExhIo
At first sight thought it was gold from the design as I had gotten a couple in the past but smaller, then after a closer look found it just had a rusty gold and green tarnish and under that was silvery grey but too heavy to be sliver so headed back to the car for a closer look and found an 850 stamp WOW!!! Plat baby 38g of the stuff. By this time I needed something to still my beating heart so wolfed down a bowl of rice topped with the best marinated steak I've ever tasted and headed back to the water hunting for another 4 hours finding 2 more good keepers till I'd covered all the beach and headed home.
Went to sleep thinking about it and woke up 6 hours later still thinking about it. Never thought I'd find a ring bigger than last winter's find.
http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=173888
BIG Plat crossed off the bucket list and find a ring bigger than Frederick put in it's place. Probably never happen but you never know. I'll clean it up and post the pics later.
Might take me a little while to get over this stellar find please bear with me
Thanks for viewing,
HH&GL
18
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That's an insane ring. Big congrats on the plat attack! $1415.43 spot plat prices. Any markings for the size of the diamond?
Congrats!!!
can you imagine the size of the guy that wore that ring. 
Big congrats on a fantastic find!
