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Page 1 of 2 1 2 >   LinkBack Thread Tools Rate Thread Display Modes 04-16-2009, 01:02 AM   #1 (permalink) commidaddy Senior Member     Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 377 My Mood: 1964 Kennedy Accented Hair This is just a little information on one of my favorite, often overlooked, U.S. coin: the Kennedy half dollar. More specifically, it's about the 1964 proof with accented hair variety. According to statistics, between one and three percent of the 1964 proof halves were accented hair varieties, which adds up to between 40K and 120K. There are four basic ways to identify the '64 accented hair variety, broken into two categories: Obverse and Reverse. The easiest way is to look above the ear on the obverse for a wishbone shaped formation comprised of hair, hence the accented hair name. Secondly, check the I in Libery for what I call an unfinished serif. Basically, the left part of the line underneath the I is shortened substantially. Now, the next two are not in any way a guarantee for indentification, but are more used for verification of the first two ways, and also can be used to help verify counterfeiting. First, look below the UNUM at the rays. In the accented hair variety, the rays will appear to be intersected and broken by the stars, while in the regular variety the rays continue without being interrupted. Now, the final way is to check the designer's initials. Look to the inside of the eagles claws that are holding the arrows. There you'll find Frank Gasparro's initials--FG. In the accented hair variety, the G will be straight, kind of squared off, while in the regular version the G is more rounded at the top. The accented hair variety is one modern coin that I feel is very overlooked, so there are definitely some opportunities to come out ahead as most people don't know what to look for. Now go out and cherrypick away! Pictures from http://www.ipotad.com/pages/ah2.html more pictures available as well Attached Images      __________________ Oh Well. Jarrid   04-16-2009, 05:15 AM   #2 (permalink) snaz Registry fever     Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Alberta, Canada Posts: 3,011 My Mood: Awesome! Thanks for taking the time to explain this! Bookmarked! __________________ Shawn Canadian Small cents : 108/124 87% complete Canadian Large cents: 44/56 78% complete Canadian Small cents MS: 64/124 51.7% complete W.I.N.S# 743 ENS Club Member   04-16-2009, 08:39 AM   #3 (permalink) commidaddy Senior Member     Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 377 My Mood: Thanks for reading! and thanks for the nomination __________________ Oh Well. Jarrid   04-16-2009, 10:03 AM   #4 (permalink) jgrinz Senior Member     Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 168 My Mood: Should have made it more complete ... Accent is on the left and regular on the right ... Attached Images         04-16-2009, 10:11 AM   #5 (permalink) commidaddy Senior Member     Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 377 My Mood: Quote: Originally Posted by jgrinz Should have made it more complete ... Accent is on the left and regular on the right ... Sorry about that, thanks for the help __________________ Oh Well. Jarrid   04-16-2009, 10:29 AM   #6 (permalink) jgrinz Senior Member     Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 168 My Mood: Not a problem   04-16-2009, 08:44 PM   #7 (permalink) mralexanderb Coin Collector     Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Northern California Posts: 1,964 My Mood: A very timely thread as I just got one last Monday, as a gift. Bruce __________________ This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.   04-16-2009, 08:50 PM   #8 (permalink) Vess1 ANA# R3152287     Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Illinois Posts: 1,701 My Mood: You know, I have a set of P's & D's from 64 thru 2009. I've often wondered what the characteristics were but for some reason, I've never bothered to find out. I had no idea there were this many distinctions on them. Great write up. Thanks! Kind of makes me want to get one now for some reason. __________________ When the well's dry, we know the worth of water. - Benjamin Franklin   04-16-2009, 09:12 PM   #9 (permalink) TheNoost huldufolk     Join Date: May 2008 Location: Michigan Posts: 4,281 My Mood: Quote: Originally Posted by snaz Awesome! Thanks for taking the time to explain this! Bookmarked! How do you do that? Just add to fav. or something different __________________   04-16-2009, 09:12 PM   #10 (permalink) jaceravone Member     Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: United States of America Posts: 3,378 My Mood: Very nice thread. I actually "cherrypicked" one of these from my local coin dealer, but it was in really, really bad shape. Maybe I thought I was cherrypicking when I really wasn't....ya know what I mean? __________________ "These are the times that try men's' souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." Thomas Paine, Intro to the The Crisis, December 19, 1776   04-16-2009, 09:25 PM   #11 (permalink) the_man12 Amateur Photographer     Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Illinois Posts: 2,955 My Mood: awesome post. mine is regular __________________ 20th Century Uncirculated Whitman Type Set Folder: 32/37 (86.5%)   04-16-2009, 10:11 PM   #12 (permalink) commidaddy Senior Member     Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 377 My Mood: Thanks for all the replies Like I said, I just love the Kennedy half, and really, I think they are very much underappreciated and undervalued. And thank you all for the nominations as well Jarrid __________________ Oh Well. Jarrid   04-19-2009, 07:08 PM   #13 (permalink) coinbuff Senior Member     Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 114 Jarrid, Thanks for a very informative post!   04-19-2009, 08:00 PM   #14 (permalink) rzage What Goes Around Comes A     Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Chicago Posts: 5,447 My Mood: Jarrid , good informative thread , thanks . rzage __________________ Instant Karmas gonna Get you:John Lennon ANA member #R3146234   04-19-2009, 09:58 PM   #15 (permalink) FlyingEagleCent Junior Member   Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 5 wow, i did not know that. thanks for telling me.   Page 1 of 2 1 2 > Bookmarks Digg del.icio.us StumbleUpon Google Would you like to support CoinTalk? Coin Talk Code of Honor 1. Post unto others as you would have them post unto you. 2. Keep it clean, like a 1950s family television show. 3. 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