April 21, 2011 started off a little different, instead of hunting the beach early morning I decided to go the local park. I have hunted here many times in the past 20 years with no great finds. Its a very trashy larger park that has many fields for sporting events. Back in its day it was a chicken farm like most of NJ in the 1920,s to 1960's. I have had the Minelab Sovereign GT for only a 2 months and mostly hunted the beach with it with great results. I normally save beach hunting for my Excalibur. While the Excalibur has it place in and near the water the Sovereign GT shines on the beach. Today the low tide was late afternoon around 3pm so off to the park I went. It was early around 6am. So I set out to look for some soft deep signals on an older road way long gone now. I hunted some great big ceder trees. The supervisor of the parks stop by to see if any good treasures had come to light. I recovered several of my hits and found that that pesty chicken farm parts were about. I found a few dollars in clad, but was still looking for some silver on the old road. After few hrs of pesty trash I move on the another part of the park across one of the larger parking lots. I had always done good here in the past, seems they had changed the field layout and the larger soccer field was no longer, which opened up area's to hunt without digging on the actual paying fields. Since I had the DTI meter on and this was a trip to learn different meter readings and practicing my pinpointing. I had just started to swing when I was met with so much trash, from an older picnic area that was infested! I just elected to move away from this 20 ft wide path of trash. After moving to an area with less trash targets I started a slow sweeping overlapping swings. The first target that came to sound off was coming in at 172 on the meter, this today has been a zinc penny all morning long while I am not one to want to dig pennies all day I am not able walk away not knowing what's under the dirt. So I set out to make a good pinpoint and cut the smallest flap I could and still recover my treasure. I must have been fixed on the pinpointing or tone deaf because pennies and gold just don't sound the same with the Sovereign GT. I cut the flap removed some dirt placed it on my mat, to my surprise the pin pointer did not sound off when checking the hole. I looked at the little pile of dirt and pushed the pin pointer in it and it sounded off and exposed the edge of a gold ring. I took out the camera and snapped some pictures. As I picked it up and started that look for marks that would confirm it was gold, I was met with zilch. Not a mark of any kind could be seen. However this would turn out to be my best mans ring find of 38 years of hunting. Later Internet discussions met with many questions of the 172 reading and such a large 14k men's gold ring. Repeated test reveal the same results, so my answer to all you hunters out there 172 could also be the find of a life time. Not another zinc penny! When having the ring tested for gold content the jeweler offered to buy the ring for $3500.00 which was quickly met with no thank you. He felt this was a ring over 100 hundred years old. The rings weight 14.3 grams diamonds 6 tcw .90. Anonymous - NJ, USA