Just cherry picked a gorgeous Prooflike 1969-D Kennedy Half Dollar

I just found this amazing Prooflike 1969-D Kennedy Half Dollar in the "at melt" bin at my local shop. I at first thought it was just an impaired proof that was cracked from a 1969 proof set, but then I noticed it was a D mint mark. It really makes me think of the 1967 SMS surfaces with the mirror like fields. It's the most reflective fields I have ever seen on a business strike coin outside of DMPL Morgans. @physics-fan3.14 this should be right up your alley. I think it might grade MS-63 due to the hairlines on the obverse from it being tossed around in a bin with other 40% Kennedy's. It is pretty much free of any large hits in the primary focal areas.

 

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Nice pick, sharp eye!
Reed.

 

Nice find.

 

Just to clear one thing up .
There's no cherry-picker number for this coin .

Carry on .........

 

Yes, I know. LOL But I picked the best coin from the pile, so it's cherrypickin'.

 

Great find Justin! She be Purdy! Although the find is amazing, your pictures are always more amazing!

 

why are you holding it with your thumb and finger on the surface?

 

Nice coin.

 

Now that you mention it that coin the “expert” is holding in the video the OP posted is now destroyed after the little fingering “incident” isn’t it. Some people’s kids!

 

Very cool, and definitely PL. The reverse is a little weaker, but I still think it makes it.

The 70D is quite common in PL, but the 69D is still available. There are a total of 15 graded for 69D.

I think yours would be at least 64PL (maybe even shot at 65?) There are some marks, yeah, but I don't think its bad enough for a 63.

For comparison, here's my 65PL:

 

Yup, that coin in the junk-silver bin was just fine until a naked finger brushed its surface. Oh, the humanity!

 

Did y'all actually watch the video? He's not brushing the coin or holding the coin with his thumb. He's waving his finger over it to show the reflection.

 

Yeah I watched. If he handled my coins like that it would be the last time he handled my coins. Just takes ONE greasy brush of a finger then it’s toast! And what about the Third side nobody worries about the edge turning black? I would think that the 3rd side would be important especially for a proof or prooflike coin since their supposed to be the finest. Sometimes the standards just don’t make sense. Maybe it’s a silver coin thing? I do copper and ALWAYS handle any coin that’s not circulated with GLOVES. I buy them by the dozen and have them EVERYWHERE! The guy in the Video should try some. I only collect Lincoln Cents BUT I take the time and care to properly handle, conserve and store my coins most of which are only worth a few Cents themselves. I hate to see such poor examples of coin handling and will always comment when I see it.

Reed.

And that coin WILL now have finger marks from the middle finger that the coins Reverse is IS contact with, IT HAS TO BE. it will now look like the example I posted above except the video coins Reverse will be fingermarked just like the marks by the 1 L I on my posted coin. You can be all the righteous you want to be but im right here. Sorry

 

WOW!! I know how to handle a coin. I literally was holding the edge of the coin. My fingers never once touched the surfaces of it. I was waving my finger in front of it to show the reflection. My hands were not "GREASY"! I gave the coin an acetone bath and I washed my hands using dish soap (which is designed to break down oils) before handling the edge. Also, TPG's don't wear gloves when they are grading your coins, in case you didn't know. Not wearing gloves gives a much more positive control of the coin while handling it. My finger in the back is curved so that it is only contacting the edge, it's there to prevent the coin from being dropped. Plus if I had accidentally touched the surfaces with my clean fingers, the coin would have gone directly into an acetone bath. Come on, give me a little more credit, I know what I am doing.

 

All the people who criticized him... It is not your coin. Aside from perhaps noting that handling a coin improperly can leave fingerprints, etc., each person can decide how to handle their own coins.

 

Thank you. I was maintaining positive control of the coin while trying to make a video with the other hand. Sheesh..

 

Please see my comment above. My fingers never touched the surfaces of the coin. They were keeping positive control of the edges and my thumb was above the surface to show the reflectivity as @physics-fan3.14 pointed out. I'm sorry if I gave some of you a heart attack, thinking I was misshandling the coin. But I assure you my hands were as clean as they can be and I had acetone standing by in case my fingers did make contact. This is the only time I cradle a coin like that. I rarely ever make a video to show something that I was trying to display. My apologies.

 

Fingerprint!


...well... that's the imagery I had while reading thread.
Nice pickup!

 

Well it was a nice pickup up until you ruined it shooting the video. At least you'll have a video from the good old days when she was still pristine.

Just messing with you. Great snag!

 

What gets me here is the OP rescued this coin from the melt box then treats it like a crappy F-12 Details coin when he handles it, I just didn’t get it. Just sayin what I’m seeing is all. IMO you could improve on your coin handling skills a bit and buy some gloves.

I don’t send coins in to be graded, I do that myself like we had to WAY back before the TPG services came into being. But it is nice to know the TPG’S also handle coins without gloves, I won’t be sending them any of my coins soon.

When new people see seasoned Vets making Newb mistakes that’s how they think it’s done. This then teaches them bad habits, it’s not good because they don’t know the difference. Well that’s how the YouTube expert does it. A newb that watches that YouTube video might not know about Acetone so now his whole roll he just bought is toast, you gonna refund his coins?

This is a site for learning the correct information about coins and not learning bad habits. IMO.

Again nice pick and I’m glad you know how to midigate the effect of oils that have been put on coin metal by humans. Thank goodness this coin is safe and reconserved properly.
Reed.