Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire My College Ring's Melt Value is Now $1,000.00

Never thought about it before, and I know I only spent two or three hundred dollars on it when I graduated, but I just calculated its gold melt value (in light of the recent boom in gold price) at just a few dollars shy of $1,000.00. Add the approximately 20% of its composition being silver (14K gold being 58.65 weight percent gold, and about about 20 weight percent silver), and it's easily $1,000.00 melt.

It's sobering to think, however, that it's not really the metals that have become more valuable since I graduated college so much as the US Dollar having lost that much value since I graduated college.

1K? There's another pistol, what are you waiting for??

Might as well, kids and grandkids will be headed to the We Buy Gold store.

I've never even heard of a college ring.


#peakedinhighschool

They peddle them. I was in college with my high school ring on. lol
I thought why do I need another one?

Even if mommy and daddy were paying for it. Meh, I’d of lost it.

Still got my HS ring though.


LOL, college ring comes with a Honda Ridgeline.

I took a magnifying glass to the inside and found the maker. I looked up what they were currently selling the exact same ring for, i.e., $1,500.00. Damn!

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That’s pretty Uber, Brother Hawkeye. Gotta pitcher?

I think mine was about $700 with Black Onyx, wouldn't sell it to be honest.....melt it down when I die for all I care.

Black onyx is radical and groovie.

Didn't get the high school ring or the letterman jacket either.

They gave us something.....I can't remember what it was now.


They used the last of our class money for it.

Simple yet masculine in design and function, don't like the school color stones BS....let the ladies wear them.

A masculine ring?


Masculine jewelry?




Okay.

A wedding ring can't be masculine ? GTFOH

No.

It can't.

Got my class ring from Walmart

Oh ?, well I rarely wear either my wedding or college ring, because I'd destroy them working. And 1 job wasn't allowed any rings, due to liability insurance.... arcing from super high voltage devices.

When You Graduated people went into a Field and earned a Living

Now their up to their Ass in College Debt and have Degrees in Africa Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Basketweaving and no Way to Earn a Living to fund themselves..

Keep the Ring it’s a Reminder of Achievement in what was a Good America not a Everybody Finishes First in a Dysfunctional America..

I totally forgot to sign up for my college class graduation ring. It was free too haha

No such thing.

Mine is white gold, same price as yellow on your price list, it’s a size 13, a lot of metal. New pistol YeeHaw

I wouldn't sell mine, either. Besides, it apparently retains its value a heck of a lot better than a savings account.

You really selling yours for a new pistol?

Going to pass it on to your kids?

Honestly curious, what other intrinsic value would it have?

It's literally made of money. Real money, not Federal Reserve fiat currency.

What about a West Point ring?

NFL Super Bowl Ring?

Jewelry is feminine.

That men wear earrings does not make them masculine items.

Wedding rings and watches get a free pass, otherwise I agree.

I missed the part where he said it was a West Point ring.

Collector value of a superbowl ring I’d think would surpass the value of the raw material.

So is it a West Point Super Bowl ring your talking about?

Jewelry is jewelry. Like it or not. I don’t like it personally. Some do along with a quart of cologne. More power to them.

Oh dang, now you’ve done it. Introducing watches into the jewelry category

Still have all three
HS, BS, and MA, Wife bought the MA and yes I was in a Fraternity, even after 57 years still have many great friends from those days.
Met my wife of 54 years at a Frat party, With a College Degree learned I could make more money working with a brain instead of getting my hands dirty, which I did to pay for College.

That’s 3 threads right there, You condensed it into one,

Rookie move.

I don't wear jewelry anymore. My high school girlfriend lost my HS class ring in the river ….it's a long story but it was an accident. It was never replaced. After that I knew I would never have a college class ring. In college I wore gold jewelry like rings and chains because it was "In style". During my business career, I was given a couple of gold rings for my accomplishments with a company I worked for. Today I only wear my gold wedding ring. All of my old jewelry is kept in a bag to be melted down some day. Probably need to weigh all of it and who knows that day may come soon.

Huh, are cock rings considered masculine ?.... asking for a friend, but not a really good friend.

Where would you get the idea of melting a gold ring?

Ha!


That is going to be a conflict.


On the one hand the Jews invented jewelry to get money from you for worthless shiny things.....and then the Germans were forced to take rings from the Jews at their Happy Camps.


They obviously needed the jewelry to pay for their gardeners once the mean allies cut off their supply of gypsies.

You understood my point.

How about a West Point tiara?


That would be butch as hell right?

I'm sure you could sport it, Jim!

No college ring here. Damn...

#oxymoron

Happy Camps!