Luck Be a Lady

Avago

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As some of you probably know, my girlfriend CRHs half boxes with me nearly daily which is why I almost always refer to "us" and "we."

Well it was all her last night. My lucky lady raked in our best box ever! She cracked open her box to reveal the below:

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We were both excited of course, but I knew this one would be special. The enders showing were: one Wender, two Benders, and two double-Kenders.

It's pretty rare to have just one of those in a box, let alone FIVE of the rarities. These were also our first double-ender rolls.

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She and I handle enders differently... I save mine for last, building up the anticipation whereas she goes right for them so she knows what she has. Leading off with the Wender, we see this:

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FIVE bright white, sorta-slick rims, alll of them 90% Franklins and Walkers! What are the odds? What in the world could we possibly have in this box?? The rest of the enders went as follows:

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Only one 40% in the mix. The the rest were mostly Franklins and Walkers with a few 1964 Kens mixed in. Unbelievable!! The other double-Kender roll not pictured contained only those two.

The best roll in the box was the other double-Kender that had EIGHT silvers. The other rolls with enders contained seven, six, five and two.

We could hardly believe what was happening!! I was trying to slowly work my way through my own box at the same time but couldn't do anything but stop and watch. Here are a few more highlight rolls:

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I called "dream box" as soon as I took stock of the enders... Well, we missed the official mark by two silvers, but for all intents and purposes I consider this a dream box. The ratio of 90% to 40% is astonishing, not to mention all of the Franklins and Walkers. There were probably only ten rolls in the whole box that did not contain at least one silver. Many had 5-7 silvers and several contained 1-2.

The box total is as follows: 98 Silvers - 84 x 90% and 14 x 40%.

14 x 40% Kennedy
15 x 90% Kennedy
42 x Ben Franklin
27 x Walking Liberty

Silver total: 32.45 ounces!!

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(Left stack 40%, Right stacks mixed 90%)

That shoots us up to 160 ounces on the year. Just for comparison's sake, we scored less silver in January through June of this year than we did in this single box. This box doubled our Franklin total and tripled our Walker total. This box represented more than a 25% increase in our silver total.

Needless to say, my stat tracking has been skewed a bit. My bar charts have a Burj Khalifa sticking up in the middle and my 90/40 ratio and per-box averages are demolished. This was our 304th box of the year, so we've searched long and hard to finally get one this good.

Oh, and my box? I pulled a lone 40%.

Updated for more pics:

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(Left to Right: 40%, 1964 Kennedy, Franklins, Walkers)

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Date/mint mark breakdown:

Walkers
1917 : 1
1934-S : 1
1935-D : 3
1936 : 1
1936-S : 4
1941-D : 6
1943-S : 4
1943 : 2
1944 : 1
1944-S : 3
1945-D : 1

Franklins
1950-D : 3
1951-S : 1
1952-D : 8
1953-D : 7
1954-D : 3
1957-D : 6
1959 : 1
1962-D : 9
1963-D : 4

Kennedy
1964 : 15

1966 : 4
1967 : 5
1968-D : 2
1969-D : 3

Happy hunting everyone and enjoy the pics!
 

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Holy moly! Amazing box!!!so many 90%!!! Simply amazing. Hope the trend continues, things seem to be looking good finally after months of nothing. Hope there's more out there to be found.
Good luck this week!
Hh
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Wow. I think I'd probably soil myself on just the enders alone.
 

Amazing! That's so awesome! Congrats. It's great to see boxes like that still out there.
 

Yowzer!

You'll have to start weighing the boxes, give the lovely lady the light one lol.
 

So so very nice. Your girlfriend is one lucky lady, but her next trick will be to melt one of those 90% into a silver engagement ring. Nice to have your sole mate enjoying the same hobby together. Congrats & HH.
 

And this is why I CRH. Big congrats to the two of you!
 

Congratz Avago and Lucky Lady!

It's posts of boxes like this that got me to order my first box. That box held somewhere around 12 or 13 total silvers for me and I was hooked.

I swear to you, just before opening your post I thought to myself that it was over. Haven't seen a really good box, mine or someone else's in so long! Glad to be wrong! Thanks for the kick in the pants.

Grease
 

So excellent. 32 ounces...that's a nice little rocket boost for the yearly total. Thanks for sharing!
 

Congratz Avago and Lucky Lady!

It's posts of boxes like this that got me to order my first box. That box held somewhere around 12 or 13 total silvers for me and I was hooked.

I swear to you, just before opening your post I thought to myself that it was over. Haven't seen a really good box, mine or someone else's in so long! Glad to be wrong! Thanks for the kick in the pants.

Grease

You should check here more
Often. There's been some pretty good scores lately. I myself had over a 100 silvers recently for 4 boxes.
 

Thanks everyone, I'm glad you're all enjoying the post! It was such a thrill to get to search the box and we very well may never find another one like this again. It sure felt like a dream...
 

Great score Avago! You never know, maybe the rest of the collection dump is waiting for you in your next order!
 

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