Which of the 4 Silver Kennedy's in the new 50th Set looks the best? Poll

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Okay, here's what I was seeing on the "bad" enhanced uncirculated example. In all these images, I've arranged the lighting to maximize the appearance of the polish lines (?), but -- well, see what you think.

First, the obverse -- the polish lines visible here aren't prominent to the naked eye, but the diagonal stripes across the portrait definitely are. It looks like the laser scanning mechanism was glitching while applying the frost to the die.



Next, the reverse -- I couldn't believe my eyes when I got the capsule loose and flipped it over.



Here's a close-up of part of the field.



I'm fine with "interesting textures", but this just looks like damage to me. I could drag steel wool across the field, and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference unless you used enough magnification to tell whether the "hairlines" are incuse or relief. (These are clearly something like polishing lines -- relief, and not crossing the devices -- but I've never seen them looking this ugly.)

For comparison, here are the obverse and reverse of the second example, again with the light arranged to maximize any field disturbances.





I'm really happy with this one. I don't know (or particularly care) if it would get a 70, but I can look at it and say, "that's a beautiful coin". The first one? Not so much...

 

I like the look of the lines. Again, to me it almost looks like stainless steel or something

 

LoL! That's the widest spread doubled die I've seen since the 66!

 

I wonder how many collectors bought 5 sets and with all 20 coins put together a nice set and sent the other 4 sets back? Probably cost less than $20 to do that.

How close are they to selling out?

 

There's still time to assemble your set! Sales report from earlier this week:

US Mint Sales Report: Kennedy Silver Set Sales Reach 125,147 [via Coin Update]

 

Well, I have great news for you -- there are lots and lots of coins available with that sort of surface texture, in every series. They're easy to find, too -- just use "harshly cleaned" as your search keywords.

 

Except this WASN'T cleaned. I like this from the mint, not when your average joe does it

 

Don't look at the wide mirroring, look at the small spread on the date.

 

I certainly understand the difference. To me, though, the mint finish looks so much like a harshly-cleaned field that I just can't appreciate it.

Come to think of it, maybe that's why I so dislike reverse proofs, and why I'm not terribly fond of non-cameo proofs. The mirrored devices remind me of coins that someone has polished. There are obvious differences, but that's my visceral reaction.

 

As far as prices is concerned. Reverse proof is the winner again. As far as beauty. Then both revere proof and enhanced uncirculated are on top. As far as collector is concerned. Silver Proof is the widely collected since 1992. And this one the the lowest mintage.

 

Well I think the Enhanced Uncirculated will be the key to this series, IF it is in good condition as it seems a lot are far from perfect. I think buying a slabbed 70 of this one will be a great investment.

 

I'm somewhat baffled by the price of these sets on ebay. Folks are paying $140 a set when you can get them for $99 at the mint. Am I missing something? It may be a good omen for me buying 5 of them from the mint.

 

I bought 5 sets, kept two for my sons, sold the other three on ebay for $125 each. I guess they are willing to pay more to try and get 70's for resale because of the 5 limit.

 

And they have no family and friends?

 

I went through my 5 sets, only one of the En. Uncs did not have the lines. The others 4/5 were good. I believe the En.Uncs will be the winners if clear.....of this I have no doubt.

 

BTW, when I sold mine, I didn't search to see which were the nicest coins, I picked two out of the box, resealed and shipped them out. I won't be grading them, they'll stay in the OGP until who knows when.

 

How many times of magnifying glasses you guys using to check the hairlines.?.

 

Was the final sale price with shipping $125? If so, did you make anything, or even break even? Factoring in ebay cost, paypal costs, and shipping cost... not much to work with.

 

Nothing. The first time I got that bad one pried out of the packaging and turned it over, I nearly dropped it from surprise. No magnification needed. (To be fair, the light was coming from my left, so it was highlighting the lines when I first saw them.)

That's interesting to know. I only had my own 50/50 data set, so for all I knew, it might have been the "heavy lines" variety turning out to be rarest. Sounds like that's not the case, though. I wonder if the heavy lines show in the early die state, and fade as the die is used more?