1974P 90% Silver Kennedy Half Dollar

What he has 8 clad halves worth $4.00. Note his "no return" policy, but since this is a SNAD item, PayPal will always refund full price.

 

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That is what I figured, I guess that is why he did not reply to me. as it would deter people.

 

Could you possibly post some pictures of the coin?

 

Oh... and welcome to CT, Sprigan. This is a good place to visit for any coin related question, or just to lurk, read and learn.

 

That always helps!

 

Sure I will take some pictures as I get off work in a bout 4 hours. and Thank you I didnt actually expect a response since it was an old thread. how do you guys stumble on this?
I found it via google and I am a major silver searcher/hoarder/buyer/seller/etc.
But never found CT before

 

Any thread (even super old ones) that get a new reply will appear at the top of the "What's New?" search of threads.

 

Oh neat! I will definitely stick around I think I have been directed here before but I haven't posted.

 

Try it - You'll like it. Pretty friendly people and knowledgeable.

 

I have already since being informed Love the site! I will def be around.

 

Two points:

1) This is a VERY common date. If someone were looking for a half-dollar to silver-plate, they'd stand very good odds of picking this date by chance.

2) A lot of eBay sellers call any whitish coin "silver". I've seen plenty of listings for silver Buffalo nickels, silver Liberty nickels, even silver Susan B. Anthony dollars. If you report these listings, they'll usually get pulled, but there are so very many of them that I've given up reporting them.

 

Ah Thanks for that info I was assuming the same

 

Pictures of my Coin

If I did this right I attached 2 pictures one of the side one of the date. I can post more if requested.

Doing the "Clank" test it sounds like a normal clad or a 40%er but not at all like a 90% it is a noticable difference.

 

I have to say I am thinking at this point it IS just a clad with a small silver plate. I still dont understand why someone would go to that trouble.

 

I've found a silver plated 1974 before. It tricked me for sure, but it was most certainly not a silver coin. It could have even been like a chrome plating since it was very shiney. I thought it was a bad joke someone was playing.

 

There is no record, that I am aware of, of the Mint striking, even by error, a KHD on a silver planchet in 1974.

I would also think it extremely unlikely anyone would go to the trouble of counterfeiting a silver 1974 P half as there were 201,596,000 struck in Philly that year, and makes it a common date and mint coin.

Counterfeiters would make a fake of a rare or key date coin, or even take a common coin and add the mint mark of a rare or key date before they would waste their time faking a common date and mint coin.

 

2 words: Danbury Mint.

 

I was just about to say "it was probably some selling scheme from one of the late night TV commercials" but you beat me to it! If multiples are being found of the same year, it was more than likely some off-brand" mint churning them out.

 

Lots of people that work at firms that do metal plating plate all kinds of things just for fun or out of boredom.

I think there may be some 74-D's struck on 40% silver planchets but no 90%. After all where would a 90% silver planchet come from? At Philadelphia they hadn't struck any silver, 90% or 40% (In fact they never struck any 40%), since 1966 and that was in a different mint building.

 

That seller had re-listed those Kennedys http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...&viewitem=&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc#ht_547wt_1344 and I contacted him about the title:

Dear xxx,

Just an FYI, the U.S. Mint ended the use of silver in business strike Kennedy half dollars in 1970. All business strike Kennedys 1971 on, are copper-nickel clads, and in 1975 the Mint used silver in Kennedys for the bicentennial dual date uncirculated and proof strikes.

Your title is wrong and I ask you correct it.

Also, if you're going to sell coins on eBay, you should purchase the 2013 Red Book: A Guide to United States Coins, by R. S Yeoman, a well respected numismatist. His book is bible on coin information.

xxxx

This was his reply:

Dear xxx,

Thank you for all the information. Sounds like you should be selling coins on Ebay.

- xxx

New listing:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180893095207#ht_547wt_1344

A kind word and a little education goes further than threatening legal action and making a fool of oneself, something I hope Detecto learns one day.