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RE: Powering Up and Detecting
I always feel bad when I find a piece of jewelry. Maybe because my Mom lost her ring and never found it. She was beside herself with sadness. She had it for 100 years or so and could not go with the thought of replacing. It's not replaceable.
I digress.
All I am saying is it makes me sad. But, pretty sure most of them have written it off if it comes off in your lake.
Coins are fun fillers, I am sure.
Yes I understand that feeling and have felt it often myself. One memoriable one was a decent child's ring from around early 1900's. It struck me that the owner lost it as a child and is likely not even alive anymore.
Often class rings can be returned. Most metal detectors love to do returns. I wish I knew where your mom's ring was. I would have loved to have returned it for her. Truly.
I felt bad when I found an Irish Claddah ring.
I have returned 3 class rings. My mom doesn't even know where she lost it. So... that made it worse.
The child's ring may have actually been a lady's ring although jewelry was popular to buy infants at that time. Women were very tiny then, and their fingers very slender. So perhaps it may have been a woman's?
The Claddagh ring can be bought all over so perhaps it wasn't a good one? See one can hope! A true one is gold. Why did the Claddagh ring make you feel worse? Out of curiosity.
Well coz it was gold.