My First Ring- a DIAMOND ring! Well...

[RobJ]

While visiting my in-laws this weekend, the group decided to escape the heat and go to the beach. When they chose Silver Beach, Michigan, I took it as a sign. How could I not metal detect at a place called "Silver Beach?" With the oppressive temperatures, the place was packed.


I spent most of the time playing with the kids and the cousins in the lake, but when the kids tired of the water I pulled out my AT Pro. I've never used it in the waster and was anxious to give it a try. The waves were up a little so I stayed close to shore, inside a little shoal that knocked down the worst of the waves. After a couple minutes of swinging in the surf, I had a good solid signal. I was surprised how little trash I was hearing given the amount of people using the beach. I guess the sand shifts often and this was a fresh drop. Turned out to be a penny a few inches down in the sand. I started searching again and got another solid signal in a couple minutes. No trash in between.



I don't know if the target was deeper, if my pinpointing was tougher in the waves, or the sand was filling back in, but I had to dig quit a big hole to bring up this target. My heat leapt when the sand filtered out of the scoop and there was a man's ring and it looked like a wedding band with engraving inside!

My first ring ever! Woo hoo, ye-ha and all that stuff!

Although I thought I thought it might be a gold band in the scoop, as soon as I picked it up, it was clear it was light and turned out to be titanium. The ring said "Always & Forever" inside... Pretty ironic as it was rolling around in the surf a long time before either. Cleaning it off later, The center of the ring became free and revealed this is one of those rotating band rings. Very cool.









I looked for it on the Internet and it seems that it is also a diamond ring... No kidding... There is a small dot in the band and online I learned the thing has a 0.01 carat diamond. My drill bits have bigger chips. After knowing to look for it, I can confirm that it is actually present.

Look at the little dot in front... that is the diamond.



No really...



Wow, my first ring is a diamond ring. Ha... Wish it were apparent it had a diamond. Anyway, this one will have a special place for me.


I'm hooked!

[matmit]

that's excellent, but I don't know what a Titanium ring was doing on silver beach

[Flush Draw]

Thats pretty sweet! Nice find.

[guam]

Most guys/gals on here are posting their oldest coin or biggest ring etc. Now you got your braggin' rights...smallest diamond ever Anyways, just jerking your chain a little, very cool find!

[Beetem2it]

Thats a good find for your first ring be proud of it. That is one really small diamond though. GL&HH

[emoryjim]

Nice looking Titanium. great job

[RobJ]

Thanks guys it was a fun find. I spent about 10 minutes in the sand and pulled out five quarters, one dime, one penny and... a Thomas Jefferson presidential gold dollar. How many gold dollars are out there in circulation, let alone in the sand?!?

[BUZZ WILSON]

Now thats a nice find and it being your first is even better.

[Swinglow]

Originally Posted by guam

Most guys/gals on here are posting their oldest coin or biggest ring etc. Now you got your braggin' rights...smallest diamond ever Anyways, just jerking your chain a little, very cool find!

Id gladly trade all the cz I've found for that tiny diamond

[cntrydncr1]

nice ring! congrats

[pilarandmike]

That's like my hub's ring!!! I have the girl one
We got these as alternates when we sent our gold ones off to have stones replaced.

[pilarandmike]

Can you tell me what it came up as on your detector? I threw mine down and went over it and it showed as a nickel.

[RobJ]

Originally Posted by pilarandmike

Can you tell me what it came up as on your detector? I threw mine down and went over it and it showed as a nickel.

Yes, it was at the high end of a nickel. Good solid and repeatable.

[pilarandmike]

Thanks