It's the getting old and tired thing. And the disinfection after going to the pharmacy, and the quarantining of the stuff I bought, you know, same old same old in the land of the plague.
And funny you should mention it, but my bucket list is complete. Oldest coin 3rd century Roman (x3), 6th century Byzantine Coin, 14th century German silver coin, several gold coins including American, Spanish and English, Rev War belt plates (2), no 1812 plates for some reason and only a few buttons (3), they should be around here, 300 Civil War buttons, mainly Union eagle buttons with a splattering of Confederate buttons and Confederate school buttons thrown in, Civil war buckles (both sides), Spanish cobs, colonial coins, 1793 US cent, whole colonial bottles, whole CW bottles, Indian artifacts, silver everything, and on and on and on.
Most of the older dug stuff is gone now (stuff from 60's thru 90's). I started in the 1960's and in the 90's had to sell most everything.
I have given my daughters most of my collection as of now, and have been downsizing the purchased items for years now.
I love the digging part, as much as I can, but the having, well, it goes in a box and Swiss cheese for brains here forgets I have it. Nothing like digging out an old box and then remembering a relic. The last few years I have labeled each riker mount with the location of the stuff dug. I'd forget otherwise.
I still have the first relics I ever found. Two stemmed arrowheads, a colonial whistle in the shape of a chicken, a couple colonial tombac buttons, a few pipe stem pieces and a gun flint!
