Cerulean
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On Friday, I called my friendly local bank branch and ordered another box. I was surprised with an early call the next morning, informing me that "your box is ready, sir. When would you like to come pick it up?"
"Within the hour," I replied. And I was soon there, in the meantime speculating on how this order was filled in less than 24 hours, unlike the two-week timeframe I'm accustomed to. Did a different branch just so happen to have a box of halves laying around? Was this another CRHer's rejects? Did they manage to get my rejects from my dump bank? (I use two different bank chains for dumps.) Or was I just fortuitous in my armored truck delivery schedule timing? 18 hours was suspiciously fast for a halves order, so my hopes were dim, and I was wary for signs of skunks.
My box comes over the counter. It's a 5x5x2 block of brown cardboard, just like the last two boxes. The box is sitting on one side, the opposite side cut away open-topped. Uh-oh. I check out the top two rows of rolls, and each is still shotgun-rolled, the same greenish-brown and white rolls I've come to expect. I have no knowledge of any CRHer who can reroll halves shotgun-style, so I figured that either these were unsearched, or some CRHer ran his rejects through a roll-wrapping machine. With reason to suspect that there might still be hope for this box, I accepted it and took it home. (I later found a solitary customer-rolled roll near the bottom of the box. Weird.)
Two days later, after a 26-mile bike ride and time visiting family, I'm glad I took this box. I'm relieved that these Brinks boxes yielded some silver after two skunks. So now I have two Bens, but not a single 1964 Kennedy yet. (Three of these 2002 halves came from the same roll!)
Top row: the SILVER! 1952-P Franklin, 1967 40% Kennedy
Second row: four 2002-P Kennedys (very low mintage)
Third row: two 2002-D Kennedys (also low mintage)
Fourth row: The UGLIES! A red-painted 1976, a 1989-P with a groove around the eagle on the reverse, a badly scratched 1994-P, and a brown-stained 1995-D. Ewww....
"Within the hour," I replied. And I was soon there, in the meantime speculating on how this order was filled in less than 24 hours, unlike the two-week timeframe I'm accustomed to. Did a different branch just so happen to have a box of halves laying around? Was this another CRHer's rejects? Did they manage to get my rejects from my dump bank? (I use two different bank chains for dumps.) Or was I just fortuitous in my armored truck delivery schedule timing? 18 hours was suspiciously fast for a halves order, so my hopes were dim, and I was wary for signs of skunks.
My box comes over the counter. It's a 5x5x2 block of brown cardboard, just like the last two boxes. The box is sitting on one side, the opposite side cut away open-topped. Uh-oh. I check out the top two rows of rolls, and each is still shotgun-rolled, the same greenish-brown and white rolls I've come to expect. I have no knowledge of any CRHer who can reroll halves shotgun-style, so I figured that either these were unsearched, or some CRHer ran his rejects through a roll-wrapping machine. With reason to suspect that there might still be hope for this box, I accepted it and took it home. (I later found a solitary customer-rolled roll near the bottom of the box. Weird.)
Two days later, after a 26-mile bike ride and time visiting family, I'm glad I took this box. I'm relieved that these Brinks boxes yielded some silver after two skunks. So now I have two Bens, but not a single 1964 Kennedy yet. (Three of these 2002 halves came from the same roll!)
Top row: the SILVER! 1952-P Franklin, 1967 40% Kennedy
Second row: four 2002-P Kennedys (very low mintage)
Third row: two 2002-D Kennedys (also low mintage)
Fourth row: The UGLIES! A red-painted 1976, a 1989-P with a groove around the eagle on the reverse, a badly scratched 1994-P, and a brown-stained 1995-D. Ewww....
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