Jambones CRH Log

[jambone]

Jambone's CRH Log

I recently celebrated my 44th birthday. For a present, my wife and 13yo son ordered me a box of halves. When I got home from work today, it was sitting on the kitchen counter. The first roll I opened had 1 40% in it, and the silver just kept coming. The 3 of us had a great time opening rolls and piling up the keepers - 46 40%ers total. I gotta go get another box asap!

2013/03/14
1 Box: 46 40%

 

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[mercury1]

My wife never knows what to get me. A loaded box of halves would do nicely. Happy birthday!

 

[jambone]

Found another 40%er while re-rolling. My son or my wife must have missed it earlier. Total = 47 40%. It has to be beginner's luck right? It can't be this easy!?

 

[maverick]

Man, that was 1 nice box there! Happy B day to you, nice present! HH, Maverick.

 

[jambone]

Dropped off $476.50 of re-rolled halves at a different branch today. Normally, they wouldn't accept CWRs in an amount over $50, but they made an exception for me this one time. Went back to the first branch and ordered another box. I guess I can find another bank to dump at - found one that will send them off to be counted.

FWIW, the tellers at both branches (and another bank I checked out) all know about CRHing and didn't seem put off by it. One of the tellers admitted to doing it himself occasionally. As has been suggested, I think I'll start taking baked goods to the tellers that order the boxes for me.

 

[jambone]

Picked up our 2nd box today. We didn't have quite the haul we did last week, but it was still a good box: 15 40%ers. We had 2 enders - our first time for that. I took the tellers some treats when I picked it up - they really enjoyed them and I am now their "favorite customer". Made it a lot easier to order a box for next week!

FWIW, this box was long and flat - 10 rolls x 5 rolls. Our first box was more of a cube - 2 layers of 5 rolls x 5 rolls. The first box was all MWRs with white wrappers with olive green ink (as I recall, maybe it was black). This box is all MWRs with white wrappers with black ink. Other than the possible ink difference, the MWRs appear identical.


2013/03/21
1 Box: 15 40%

 

[sagittarius98]

The olive wrappers are older I think.

 

[jambone]

Yeah, I was wrong about the wrappers being almost identical. Here's a pic I found that was like my first box:



And here's my second box:



I believe the first box came from Brinks and the 2nd box came from a local/regional courier.

 

[jambone]

So, beginner's luck lasts exactly 2 boxes. Got another box of halves today and it was a total skunk. It was a cube box with the white/black MWRs. Looked like somebody had been through them already and reused the wrappers.

Oh well, it's hard to complain about this box after the first two.

 

[billionaire]

Thats really good beginners luck because i thought it was a 90% and 3 40% in $400 in halves. That seems more dreamlike to me

 

[jambone]

Not much of a comeback from last week's skunk, but we got 2 40% (both 1967) out of a box yesterday.

2013/04/11
1 Box: 2 40%

I could live with 2 keepers per box. I know I'm new to this, but I'm really looking forward to finding my first Ben or Walker.

Happy Hunting!

 

[jambone]

Another skunk - cube box with white/black MWRs that had been reused. Lots of markings too: 301, 801, 901, 1101.

 

[jambone]

Another week, another skunk box. May have to mix things up a bit.

 

[jambone]

Better luck this week with a box of halves...

1 1967 40%
2 1968 40%
1 1986-S (proof) Liberty commemorative

And then I'm not sure if these are NIFCs or what...

1 1989-D
3 1991-D



I guess the picture from my scanner doesn't show how clean and shiny they are. I think they'll be released back into the wild anyway. I'll keep the 40s and the commemorative.

 

[sagittarius98]

The only NIFCs are 1987 and 2002-.