Good mood to you, dear readers of our blog.
Our blog is not the newspaper Pravda in the era of developed socialism. Therefore, sometimes self-critical notes appear. Well, really, it’s not all about writing about unbroken villages, but about plowed wallets of scales in “knocked out” fields. So, sometimes you need to talk about problems.
A little introduction to the subject of discussion. I live in a rural area, one of my main sources of income is freelancing. So, according to established tradition, I am declaring myself a long vacation for April. Namely, I put off household chores and other errands and, with maximum timing, go to dig in the fields. It is often possible to dig all day, sometimes after lunch. But the most important thing is that I dig almost every day. It all depends on the weather and bad weather. I think you, dear readers, can imagine the scale of the engine hours spent with the device in a month.
Why did I tell you this? So that the next photo does not cause you slight mistrust. Well, or complete denial. It's not the same for everybody. This photo shows the result of my field trips for twenty days in April.
I decided to conduct such an experiment. I threw off from the swag bin everything that, in my opinion and experience, could not cost more than a thousand rubles. It turned out to be such a bunch. Plus three separate finds that were immediately identified at the dig as something worthwhile.
I’ll sum up the calculation of what was and what is. In general, how much did you spend on gasoline and how much did you manage to earn extra money?
Total expenses for fuel during the reporting period amounted to approximately 12 thousand rubles. I know that the capital’s diggers were definitely amused by this figure. However, the comrades of the countryside will understand me. For the province this is an expense. On average, 500 rubles per day of coping.
What did you manage to sell and for how much? At this time I sold two lots. This is 10 kopecks and a hanging stamp. I won’t show the photo until it’s erased on the internet site.
About three hundred early Soviets have been prepared separately for sale. I sell this every year as a single lot. On average they buy for 4-5 thousand rubles.
After going through all the coins in the box, it turned out that only three of them could claim a price of more than a thousand rubles. And, here, the most important word is “may”; now prices for coins can be safely estimated at half of what is visible in the aisles at auctions.
Scales, about fifty pieces – wholesale it's about one and a half thousand. Plus 19th century imperial silver, eight coins. They might charge a thousand wholesale. If we are completely optimistic, then in one and a half.
Cloudworm five kopecks. There was great joy in getting into the black, but after examining the coin, it turned out that the coin had a crack from a plow. So, at best, they will buy it for a thousand rubles.
The last asset is copper coins in good condition. I also plan to put up three dozen pieces in one wholesale lot, I’m counting on 2-3 thousand rubles.
Total: I can count on 20-23 thousand rubles. From all sales. And this is indeed a very approximate and optimistic forecast. It's like in that cartoon. Less is possible, no more.
Conclusion. Ah, this is a sad conclusion. I'm now remembering my first spring season as a cop. Five years ago, when almost every imperial silver of the first half of the 19th century was a guarantee of a full tank of gasoline. And now I’m thinking, either gasoline has become more expensive, or coins have become cheaper.
What to do, that’s why I switched to scrap metal this season. But that's a completely different story.
