First time I have seen this. Three beautiful gold colored kennedys with post mark 1960 - 1980. Where did these coins come from and what is the significates of the dates ?
Sold as a novelty to celebrate 20 years after Kennedy's inauguration, IIRC. I've got dozens of these, both gold and silver plated. Value is about $0.50.
Yep... as Merc states above, just a novelty to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Kennedy's presidency (counterstamped 1960 / 1980):
Kennedy was elected in November, 1960 but he was not innaugurated until January 20, 1961. (Presidential elections are in even-numbered years and innaugurations are in the following odd-numbered year.)
Well, that is what I paid for them at the bank, but if they are 24 K plated gold, shouldn't they be worth a little more than .50 ?
That gold plating is so thin that you could slip it between two sumo-wrestling molecules. Besides, most of it has worn off by now because they forgot to enclose the wet paint sign with each order. Chris
Reviving an old thread... I have one of these in silver color plating... but it's magnetic. How can that be? If it's silver or white gold, it can't be magnetic because those metals aren't magnetic. The coins themselves aren't strongly attracted to magnetism, and I've tested it on a regular Kennedy half dollar so I know regular Kennedy's are not magnetic. But this plated coin is magnetic... so the plating must not be silver or gold. Is it an iron-based metal plating? By the way, I'm using a very powerful N52 rare earth magnet so it'll be able to attract even small magnetic forces.
Pure nickel is highly magnetic and is silver in color. So a nickel plating would make you half dollar attracted to a strong magnet.
So, all of those coins were never white gold or silver plating??? They were all nickel plating... all the other threads and forums were wrong. I don't know about the yellow colored ones though.
I've found around a half dozen of these in searching boxes of half dollars not worth more than face value but I keep them anyway
