Kennedy Halfs

ryanh55 · 08-15-2005, 07:08 PM

So I went to the bank today to get some halfs $150 searched through them and this is what I found: Very Fun

1-64
1-65
1-66
1-67
1-68
4-99

Are all Kennedy halfs from 1964-1970 silver? I can see the silver content of the 64 .36169oz so if I find a 1964 kennedy no matter what does it have this much silver in it? and the 65-70s do they have .800 silver? I am not sure how to read the red book, or do only the 65-70 S have the silver in them?

Now what do I do? it was fun.... take them to a dealer? I will return the rest to exchange for new rolls. I live by a very busy bank and they had many many more rolls in the vault.

Stop Motion · 08-15-2005, 07:25 PM

Becareful it you go to a dealer. The dealers around here only wanted to pay .70 cents a coin and another wanted to only pay .62 cents a coin.
Might be better off finding a lot and then selling them by the roll on ebay.
Hope you FIND many more!

SM

**The_Cave_Troll** · 08-15-2005, 07:28 PM

By weight the 64's are 90% silver and the 1965-1970 halves are 40% silver.

You can save them as an investment in silver or trade them in to a dealer for a little less than their melt value.

I recommend returning them to a different bank than you got them from so that the next time you go there you don't get the same coins back again.

Nice finds! the 1965 is way more difficult to find in circulation than the 64 is (but the 64 is still more than twice as valuable).

ryanh55 · 08-15-2005, 07:34 PM

So what do I really want to be searching for? I know the obvious pretty much anything in circ with a S mint in good condition. looks like anything 64-70 I found almost 2 rolls worth of Bicentenials. I am not really trying to fill a book YET but...... might get hooked

**The_Cave_Troll** · 08-16-2005, 01:22 AM

I pull any 1970 or earlier, anything with an "S" MM, the 1974D DDO (look for doubling on the RUS of TRUST), all 1987's (P,D,S), all 1982P, all 1999's (P,D,S), all 2002-2005 coins, and any BU coins from 1978-1988.

It looks like a long list, but it is usually a pretty small group of coins.

ryanh55 · 08-16-2005, 02:03 AM

Thanks that will be a great start...

ryanh55 · 08-16-2005, 12:13 PM

Thanks

ryanh55 · 08-16-2005, 03:12 PM

So.... cave troll thanks alot!!! went and cashed the halfs I got the other day into a different bank... picked up some more halfs and here is what I found:

1-64
1-66
1-67
3-68
1-82P
1-87P
8-99
1-02

is this about average for getting 14-15 rolls of halfs?

Morgan · 08-16-2005, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by ryanh55

So.... cave troll thanks alot!!! went and cashed the halfs I got the other day into a different bank... picked up some more halfs and here is what I found:

1-64
1-66
1-67
3-68
1-82P
1-87P
8-99
1-02

is this about average for getting 14-15 rolls of halfs?

Not avaerage at all. Get more, and give me some.

**The_Cave_Troll** · 08-16-2005, 11:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ryanh55

So.... cave troll thanks alot!!! went and cashed the halfs I got the other day into a different bank... picked up some more halfs and here is what I found:

1-64
1-66
1-67
3-68
1-82P
1-87P
8-99
1-02

is this about average for getting 14-15 rolls of halfs?

NO, it's way better than average! Average for silver is approx. 1 silver coin per 5 rolls and I've only every pulled 1 1987P and I've searched $15K in halves this year.

I keep the 99's because the P has a mintage of <9 Million and the D has a mintage of <10.9 Million; and the arbitrary number that I set for which dates to keep was any coin with a mintage of less than 11 Million (only the 1982P, 1987P, 1987D, 1999P, 1999D, and everything 2002 and newer). I have considered lowering the number to coins with less than 10.5 Million minted and that would eliminate the 99D, but so far I don't have enough for it to be a problem.

bruce 1947 · 07-01-2006, 12:37 AM

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Originally Posted by The_Cave_Troll

I pull any 1970 or earlier, anything with an "S" MM, the 1974D DDO (look for doubling on the RUS of TRUST), all 1987's (P,D,S), all 1982P, all 1999's (P,D,S), all 2002-2005 coins, and any BU coins from 1978-1988.

It looks like a long list, but it is usually a pretty small group of coins.

HI CHRIS
Why the 1999 p d

AgCollector · 07-03-2006, 06:00 PM

I've been searching through halves for about 2 months now (up to about $15,000 worth), averaging around 2.4% silver, but today I got my first solid silver roll (all 40%)! I couldn't quite believe it as the teller was talking about how she collected coins... apparently she doesn't collect silver clad halves, for which I'm grateful!

I had about given up searching but reading through all 41 (!) pages of this thread rekindled my interest- thanks all for the inspiration.

**GDJMSP** · 07-03-2006, 07:16 PM

Howdy AgCollector - Welcome to the Forum !!

All 41 pages

I'm impressed

If you read that much in other areas of the forum, you might be impressed

Well, hopefully anyway

AgCollector · 07-03-2006, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by GDJMSP

Howdy AgCollector - Welcome to the Forum !!

Thanks!

Quote:

Originally Posted by GDJMSP

All 41 pages

I'm impressed

If you read that much in other areas of the forum, you might be impressed

Well, hopefully anyway

Oh yes, there's many interesting threads to read here, I could spend hours...

**The_Cave_Troll** · 07-04-2006, 01:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bruce 1947

HI CHRIS
Why the 1999 p d

two reasons, first they are very low mintage (in fact the lowest business strike mintage for coins released into circulation, 8.9 million for the P and 10.7 million for the D; the next clsest was the 86P at more than 13 million); and second they were almost entirely released into casinos (especially the P's) so they tend to be really beaten up. I think the 99P may end up being the key to the series in the long run. I've been able to find nice MS63+ uncs for nearly every date and MM combo from circulation, but the 99P is elusive in nice condition.

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