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| Cartier 18-K Diamond Love Band Find and photo by Larry |
Larry recently found the above ring and sent the story, part of which is below.
... The pleasurable fascination had deserted me. But in its place, I felt an overwhelming conviction that I needed to hasten over to the spot the mom had been standing on. I fixed my eyes on it, and waded directly and rapidly there, whereupon I swept my 9" coil over the bottom, got a good signal, and with the first scoopful of sand picked up a Cartier 8 diamond Love ring that retails for $4494 w/tax.
Don't get me wrong; I am pleased to have found such a costly ring. But it was the way I found it that makes the story worth the telling.
The outside of the band appears to be heavily abraded, the inside hardly at all; this is not unusual. I found it in knee deep water, very close to the swash, in fluffy shelly sand. It's curious how a dense 18k ring ended up suspended in loose sand nearly on the beach. But, it seems to happen quite often...
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Mark G. also made some good finds. Here is Mark's email and find photos.
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| Finds by Mark G. |
Had a good morning at one of my favorite intracoastal parks. A good day at this park is usually when I find a coin hole where all the coins get pushed together by the winds and surf, I’ve found several in different places depends on the direction of the winds. I did find a small one today but it only got better from there. Before I left I spotted a little cut where the sand pushed up high and steep with a little deep water in front of it. I started to get hits and then I spotted what looked like a black round object sitting on the sand under the water. I hit it with the detector it sounded like gold, when I picked it up it was totally incrusted in black crust which knocked off easily. Underneath it looked like gold, very decayed gold but still bright and shiny it later tested 10K. A few feet away I hit another gold target and it was a beautiful gold gem ring with 4 diamonds marked 10K still looked like new. As if that wasn’t enough a few feet farther I start digging up gold coins. After that it was just crusty coins and iron.
They say gold doesn’t corrode however I have read that 10K gold will decay depending on what it’s mixed with. It looks like the decayed ring was a pearl ring at one time it has little pink spheres inlayed all around the ring. The gold coins are actually gold plated wedding tokens and are part of a Latin wedding ceremony, there should be 13 I only found 6, as explained by my copilot:
That’s an intriguing find! The coins marked "Recuerdo Matrimonial" are wedding tokens, often used in Christian wedding ceremonies in Spain, Latin America, and the Philippines. They are part of a tradition called Las Arras Matrimoniales, where the groom presents 13 coins to the bride as a symbol of prosperity and commitment in marriage.
Your coins are likely gold-plated tokens rather than solid gold, which is common for families who may not have used actual gold coins. These tokens can feature various designs, including religious imagery, clasped hands, or wedding-related symbols.
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| Two Rings and Matrimonial Finds by Mark G. |
Don't forget about intracoastal and inland sites. Conditions on the intracoastal do not perfectly correlate with ocean beach conditions, which is good because when the beach isn't producing sometimes you can find a spot on the intracoastal that is.
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| Source: Surfguru.com. |