My sources say it's more like 50 to 5,000. Do I hear 500?

Here's some food for thought: Someone told me it usually takes an hour an a half to win the 20 strikes you need to get a $200 in trade, betting the max bet. That means that if a machine were 100% utilized 24 hours a day with people playing 3 quarters at a time, that it produce 320 strikes/day, or 640 strikes/day with the 2 machines together at Silverton. But the machines are not likely to be utilized 24x7, so maybe assume they are played with the max bet for 30% of day shift and 10% of the night shift = 20% of the time on average, or 128 strikes/day (still seems high to me esp. since not every person playing the machines except collectors and stooges always bets the max, but those of you who have more experience at the Silverton should be able to tell whether these assumptions are way off or not). Divide that by 6 different designs and you get 21.3 sets per day. Which is 1280 sets over the two months, if the machines weren't at all dark...but we know they went dark several times.

Now the question is whether the non-2004 strikes being won last night are just some left over from the previous production run, or whether Silverton is continuing to order and fill with both the non-2004 and the newer 2004 strikes. I think I read somewhere that IGT waives the die cost if the design mintage is at least 1750, so you would think casinos have an incentive to order at least that many, if it's not a special LTD run.

OTOH, maybe there's only 100 sets like the Sundowner...