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This is my 2015 year end review.
For all intents and purposes I am a detectorist.
To me it doesn't matter if it is precious metal that shows up under my coil.
If it is nonferrous I just have to know what it is.
Many of those items end up in the recycle pile.
Some of them go straight to the bank.
Of the $1115.5 that I put in the bank last year. $915.5 was clad, and about $100 was from recycling all of those cans and bottles you always see in my trash shots.
The last $100 was from the return of a set of car keys.
To give you a sense of what my year was like here are some shots of the total finds.
Bullet casings and shotgun shells have a way of adding up.
I keep these separate from the rest of the brass because the recyclers will not accept them if mixed with the regular brass.
Speaking of regular brass I managed to find just a bit of that too.
Copper fills the buckets and that is about half of this years lead on the right.
The pile of brass alone is four feet long from left to right.
The key to success at anything is to never give up trying.
And one day I hope to find a matching key to each of these locks.
Some of the smaller interesting brass items end up in a shadow box just because I think they are cool.
And the special ones go into their own display.
The clad count suffered this year because I decided to really chase the silver.
Now chasing silver means dealing with a tone of pennies. Ninety six dollars worth of pennies this year.
Yes that is 9600 deep knee bends.
Some of which were well worth it.
LCs both foreign (8) and domestic (56), Indian head pennies and early small cents were all plentiful.
For all intents and purposes I am a detectorist.
To me it doesn't matter if it is precious metal that shows up under my coil.
If it is nonferrous I just have to know what it is.
Many of those items end up in the recycle pile.
Some of them go straight to the bank.
Of the $1115.5 that I put in the bank last year. $915.5 was clad, and about $100 was from recycling all of those cans and bottles you always see in my trash shots.
The last $100 was from the return of a set of car keys.
To give you a sense of what my year was like here are some shots of the total finds.
Bullet casings and shotgun shells have a way of adding up.
I keep these separate from the rest of the brass because the recyclers will not accept them if mixed with the regular brass.
Speaking of regular brass I managed to find just a bit of that too.
Copper fills the buckets and that is about half of this years lead on the right.
The pile of brass alone is four feet long from left to right.
The key to success at anything is to never give up trying.
And one day I hope to find a matching key to each of these locks.
Some of the smaller interesting brass items end up in a shadow box just because I think they are cool.
And the special ones go into their own display.
The clad count suffered this year because I decided to really chase the silver.
Now chasing silver means dealing with a tone of pennies. Ninety six dollars worth of pennies this year.
Yes that is 9600 deep knee bends.
Some of which were well worth it.
LCs both foreign (8) and domestic (56), Indian head pennies and early small cents were all plentiful.
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And now both diamonds are missing.
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