2/9/23 Report - Super Bowl Day. Sports Championship Ring Finds and Stories. Biking Rune Helps Explain Hoard.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report. 

So, it is Super Bowl Sunday.  So what does that have to do with metal detecting?  Well, there are some good stories about Super Bowl rings being lost and found.  I once posted the story of a Super Bowl ring being lost off a boat at Bahia Mar.  I heard from a diver that searched for that one but didn't find it.  

Some of my heaviest gold ring metal detecting finds have been championship rings from various sports.  There was one location that I liked to detect in South Florida, Haulover to be more precise, where they made a TV show that involved sports champions that competed in various sports on the beach.  The athletes also stayed at the resort.  Active, young, wealthy people can lose some nice things.  It doesn't hurt that some of them are big people.  Jet ski and parasailing areas are good places to check.  

Here is the link to the story about the Super Bowl Ring shown above.  It was lost AND found years and years before it was finally returned.

http://www.aol.com/article/2014/05/19/couples-engagement-ring-found-at-the-beach/20888344/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmaing11%7Cdl11%7Csec3_lnk3%26pLid%3D478272

That one was originally found by eye while swimming.  I often remind people to keep their eyes open while detecting.  You can visually cover a lot more ground than you can cover with a detector coil.

Below is a ring find that is nearly one troy ounce.  It is not my heaviest ring find but has good weight.

Heavy Gold Sports Ring Find.

I think I told most of these stories before.  There was an NBA championship ring that was lost and when contacted, the owner didn't want to hear about it.  Maybe he already collected the insurance of there was a story behind it like the Yankees World Series ring found at Jensen Beach.  The wife answered the phone and said she thought the baseball player went to St. Lucie to see his girlfriend.  There can be interesting stories behind such finds.

Here is a link to a post in which I told about some of those fiinds.

The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 6/10/19 Report - Finding Good Metal Detecting Spots - Sports Jewelry Examples. 2019 W Mint Mark Quarters in Circulation.

I found a couple of items that I guessed were probably owned by sports figures even though the finds were not championship rings.  For example, there was a glitzy diamond pendant number "33" that I found.  I don't know what else it would be if not a sports number.  It could be some other significant number, but I can't come up with any that seems very likely to me.  

While talking sports related finds, there was a Yankees pitcher that once lived on Indian River Drive.  He would sit on the dock, drink and throw the bottles in the river.  There are a lot of bottles there, but unfortunately that was only in the fifties, so the bottles are not as old as I'd like.

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Source: See link below.

Archaeologists have found “compelling” new evidence as to who might have owned a Viking Age hoard of more than 5kg of gold, silver and other treasures.

A newly translated runic inscription has shed light on the Galloway Hoard, considered to be one of the richest collections of Viking-age objects ever found in Britain and Ireland when it was uncovered by a a metal detectorist in Balmaghie, near Kirkcudbright, in 2014...

The word “DIS” also seemed to be misspelled, but interpreted it to mean “this” with the “Th” sound being pronounced with a “D”.

Despite these mistakes, the researchers believe the full translation reads: “This is the community’s wealth/property.”...

Here is the link for more about that.

Mystery over Viking treasure solved after runic inscription deciphered

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I'm hoping we get another cold front sometime before summer conditions set in, but I don't see any sign of it yet despite the groundhog's prediction.

Good hunting,

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