any gold finds ?

greatnortherncoin · January 25, 2011 10:46AM

post your pictures of your gold finds ......

metalmeister · January 27, 2011 12:18AM

California river finds

Mine tailing eyeball find

Dockwalliper · January 27, 2011 12:26AM

My one and only gold find of 2010

pcgs69 · January 27, 2011 7:11AM

Here's my one and only gold find of 2010 - a whole .8 grams of 1930s gold:

greatnortherncoin · January 27, 2011 8:13AM

nice finds !! thanks for sharing

avenue7 · February 11, 2011 10:52AM

Cool finds... not easy to find gold

metalmeister · February 13, 2011 2:57AM

You didn't say M.D. Gold finds so I hope I don't get flamed

" not easy to find gold"
Just about every river in Gold bearing areas has some.
Replenished after the floods.
Good luck

Zot · February 18, 2011 9:33PM

..and my best gold find, a mourning ring from 1725:

I donated it to the national museum, so I no longer have it.
They did, however, give me a 'thank you' note which I've framed and put on the wall.

ricko · February 18, 2011 9:51PM

Very nice Zot... and that mourning ring is amazing. I assume that a 'mourning ring' is a piece of jewelry worn in memory of a significant individuals death... was the inscription interpreted? Cheers, RickO

Zot · February 18, 2011 10:17PM

Hi Ricko!

Your assumption is correct. I haven't researched this stuff in detail, but it's my understanding that wealthy families had these rings made and they were given as mementos at the funeral, presumably to close family/friends.
In the early 1700's very select few could afford to do this

Reading the inscription is very easy. It's plain Swedish and reads "E B K died 19 July 1725". Finland was under Swedish rule at that time.
What I found intriguing is that there looks to maybe have been another, older inscription under it. You can see some signs of this e.g. in the picture showing the inscription, and when looking at it in hand I remember those marks looked like writing and not just scratches/random marks.

Given that "E B K" must have been a person of considerable standing in the society, I think it should be possible to find out who he was (population of Finland/Sweden was small, and the date is exact).
I've thought about looking into this several times, but it seems I'm just too lazy..

ricko · February 19, 2011 6:34AM

Thanks for the feedback Zot.... would be interesting to see if there is a former inscription... a Scanning Electron Microscope may be able to pick that up.... Cheers, RickO

metalmeister · February 20, 2011 2:25PM

Zot, nice haul there. That mourning ring looks like pure Gold!

Dockwalliper · February 21, 2011 8:06AM

<< <i>You didn't say M.D. Gold finds so I hope I don't get flamed

" not easy to find gold"
Just about every river in Gold bearing areas has some.
Replenished after the floods.
Good luck >>

No flames, gold is gold, but this is an MD forum.