Post your Kennedy Halves!!

I'm not sure I've posted this before. If I have, apologies. But I have this one Kennedy that's turned an almost homogenous gold color on both sides. I've never seen another piece like it...





And in a different light...

 

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Very clean for a 1970-D.

 

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Since the 70Ds only came in mint sets, they rarely have bag or roll marks, and almost all of the ones I've seen are blast white with good luster. In fact, if you're assembling a date set of toned Kennedys, finding an NT 70D is a real chore. I'm not being contentious - just sharing my observations.

 

WOW – Are you being serious?

I’m not sure how many 1970-D Kennedy half dollars you have looked at but the mass majority are all marked up and you would be lucky to find one still in the original set that graded MS65 or higher, extremely lucky. :devil:

 

Well, I'll defer to your experience obviously. You're the king of Kennedy collectors. But I've seen a LOT of nice 70Ds - maybe not all 65s, but pretty clean as far as marks go. I've looked at maybe a hundred, so perhaps that's too small of a sample. They seem to have far fewer problems than the majority of struck-for-circulation 40 per-centers.

 

I’m far from being the “King of Kennedy Collectors”, just a collector that enjoys the series. :smile

You have to remember that the US Mint still in 1970 didn’t care about coin collectors so no special care was given to the coins assembled in the Mint sets. Even the one pictured above, you can see were another coin scuffed across the field above TRUST.

 

Maybe it's unfair of me to compare them to anything but themselves. I bought a handful of rolls of 70Ds - that is, not rolled per se, but in the mint cellos. I consistently found better coins in those rolls than I did in BU rolls of halves from the 60s - but those were not SMS coins. I imagine finding MS65s or better would be as hard for the 70Ds as any other early date from the series.

Incidentally, none of this was meant to disparage Cazkaboom's coin - it's a great looking piece!

 

Mint back in the 1960-1970 would strike each coin off in to a drum. them put each coin in to a mint set.there were no robots to handle the coins like today !
MS-65+ Kennedy 1965 thru the 1970-D Can Be a high Dollar half dollar.this link from Pcgs should help.
*but you still can find one graded for less than price guides say.. http://www.pcgs.com/Prices/PriceGuideDetail.aspx?MS=1&PR=1&SP=1&c=125&title=Kennedy+Half+Dollar

 

New non Usa Kennedy .999pure Silver.$5.00
From Samoa . Very low mintage . Two coins one with a Mic speech as the coin set called Kennedy Speeches . No price noted.
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Downies has them for 100 AUD

http://www.downies.com/World-Coins/Other/Samoa-2013-5-JFK-Pop-Art-Silver-Proof/4139/productview.aspx

But I like the micro-text ones better...

http://www.apmex.com/Product/76502/...peech___Ich_bin_ein_Berliner__Micro_text.aspx

 

One of the most well struck 1972 DDO coins I've seen!



Too bad it had hairlines evidence of cleaning or else I'd submit it.

 

I was watching that one on eBay but didn't think it would grade higher then what I already had.

 

I haven't seen the entire coin, but in the "IN GOD" picture, those are raised die polishing hairlines and are not from a cleaning.

 

19Lyds has sent too many coins into PCGS so if he says there is "hairline evidence of cleaning" you can take that to the bank :devil:

In the eBay pictures, the neck and lower bust of Kennedy gave me concern.

 

We are in agreement as I am we'll aware that Lee is a known modern Kennedy/Ike expert and a skilled numismatist. I was just going off the small photo provided. I'm sure if he saw evidence of cleaning; it was there :smile

 

It would definitely get a genuine label.

 

BTW brat, were you the one which picked off all of Larry's Kennedy Varieties the other day??

 

Dad said he would buy me a coin for being inducted into the National Honor Society so I was watching Larry’s 1964 Proof DDO-012 but didn’t bid figured I would wait and see if something else came along. :smile

What do you mean calling me a BRAT, don’t you have some chores to do for the wife? :devil:

 

No. I told her that if she wanted them done then to do them herself!

BTW, you're my favorite brat. (I can't believe I said that............)