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!