Interesting eBay Sale

This $5.00 bill with repeating 1's in its serial number sold for $1675.00 on eBay yesterday.

Article on Denver Mint

Fascinating article on the Denver mint and it's process of minting coins.

http://www.scvhistory.com/scvhistory/signal/coins/worden-coinage0206a.htm

Hellufa Road Trip (CRH)

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COIN ROLL HUNTING

This post is dedicated to coin roll hunting only since there is so much to report for the past week. I received my final bag of Ikes and though it was the worst of the three, it did reveal a nice 1973 silver proof.

The real goodies came from my road trip to some banks about 30 minutes away in Issaquah. I hit up about 6 banks, asking to purchase all their half dollars and customer rolled coins. One bank in particular dumped about $350.00 in customer rolled coins - I think they dumped everything they had on me. It was a good mix of pennies, nickels, and dimes. I also picked up about $500.00 in halves.

The halves yielded a good 7 silvers including a 1954 Benjamin, and a nice 1978 proof, but the best stuff came from the penny and nickel rolls. The nickels revealed my first two Buffalos (though in bad shape) and a nice 1980 S proof. Along with a goodly amount of Wheaties, the pennies revealed my second Indian Head penny found through coin roll hunting.

The best though was the ten (10), YES 10, penny rolls FULL of wheat pennies. That's 500 wheat pennies - more than double my existing collection in one haul. Obviously someone decided they no longer wanted to hold on to them and simply deposited them at the bank. The rolls had a face value of $5.00, but their collector value is at LEAST $45.00 assuming there are no key dates and all the pennies are the lowest grade (which they aren't).

Needless to say this is easily the best coin roll hunting weekend yet.

The Proof(s):




The Indian:




Benjamin:




The Buffalos:






The Pile of Wheat:

How'd your like to have this for Liar's Poker?

How would you like to have this sucker in your wallet during a Liar's Poker game? It's being auctioned on eBay and the current bid is $300.00. Yep, someone has already agreed to pay at least $300.00 for something someone probably was handed as change. Might want to take the 5 seconds to glance at your bills for repeating serial numbers like these!

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Happy Thursday!

A visit from Benjamin and Emma

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COIN ROLL HUNTING

No Ikes last week as the local operations manager couldn't get in touch with the vault manager about getting more until it was too late. She was able to order another $1000.00 for this week but it is the last remaining amount they have or can order in Washington (each state has it's own cash vault). Hopefully I'll go out with a bang.

As for my weekly order of $3000.00 in halves, I had pretty decent luck considering the amount of skunk boxes I've seen recently. I scored about 8 silvers total, including my first ever Benjamin half, dated 1958. Benjamin half dollars are composed of 90% silver and were minted prior to the Kennedy series, from 1938 to 1963. (sorry, forgot to snag a picture so the below is a stock photo from the internet).

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METAL DETECTING

Received my metal detector back from Fisher Labs on Saturday. The note they included with the shipment stated that my coil was defective and so they replaced it for free, which is nice, but it makes me wonder what I missing. Anyway, I headed out early Sunday morning to West Seattle again but didn't have much luck - only finding sparse modern coinage. Perhaps my good finds from earlier were beginners luck?

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OTHER STUFF


On Tuesday I had my third softball game with a bunch of the folks here @ Motricity, and as with previous games, we were destroyed. It was a double header and we lost both games due to mercy rules, being outscored 26-8 in the first game and 29-3 in the second game. To give you an idea of the skill level the players that make up our team, notable outs for us in one game included accidentally throwing the bat at the umpire, stepping completely out of the batters box to swing, and leading off from first base. We've been known to slide into first, run through second / third base, stand off first base and tag out batters (instead of just touching the bag). I'd even venture to say that lazy ol' me is one of the most athletic folks on the team.

Turning to the professional side of sports, Erin and I headed to a Mariners game on Friday, which turned out to be a fantastic day. The weather was perfect and the seats were great - we definitely had a blast.



I leave you with a picture of the famed Emma, who is planning to visit Seattle in the coming month and should hopefully give Riley a run for this money.

Happy Mother's Day!

"Happy Mother's Day" means more,
than have a happy day.
Within those words lie many things,
we never get to say.
It means "I love you" first of all,
then thanks for all you do.
It means you mean a lot to us,
and that we honor you.

But most of all it means to us,
that we're thinking of your happiness,
on this, your day, Mother's Day,
with pleasure and with love.

Ok, so I overestimated a bit ...

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COIN ROLL HUNTING

Received another $1000 bag of Ikes this week and oddly enough, again found two American Eagle silver dollars and two 40% silver 1971 Ikes. Still no Peace or Morgan dollars, but I have another bag coming in tomorrow so I'm crossing my fingers. Not that I'm complaining ...

My luck with half-dollars has been less that stellar over the past few weeks. My estimate is that after searching through around $6000 in boxes (that's 12 boxes), I've found at most about 10 silver halves. That's pretty crappy luck, but ever crappy box brings me one box closer to a real winner

Regarding this post's title, the first of my eBay auctions of the Ike dollars finished up this weekend and my estimates on profit were a little be higher (ok way higher) than what was realized. Here's the breakdown:

Total Ikes Sold on eBay: 625
Total Cost: $625.00 (from the bank)
Total Sale Price: $727.28
Total eBay Fees: $28.69
Total Shipping Cost: $27.85

Net Profit: 45.74

Not awful, but certainly not 160% of the cost. Considering the amount of time I spent counting, packing, and shipping them - along with the gas burned to-and-from the USPS office, I'm thinking I'll just haul them into my local bank instead and just get face value ...

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METAL DETECTING

Still haven't received my metal detector back from the lab yet, so no metal detecting updates..

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OTHER STUFF

Erin came down with something on Friday night so she was horizontal for most the weekend. As for me, I've starting playing a new PC game a friend introduced me to called Mythos by Flagship Studios. It's currently in pre-release (beta) stage so it's not available to the public, but I was able to get access to it through a mutual friend who is a software developer currently working on the game. It's a pretty fun hack-and-slash role-playing game, similar to Diablo 2 and designed / written but many of the folks who were part of the original Diablo development team at Blizzard Entertainment.

That's all for now!