1964 special mint set finish half dollar

I just started coin collecting about a month ago. I found this in a box of coins I inherited. I have 3 1964 half dollars but this one looks different from the others. I believe it has a special finish. Could someone please give me a little info about this coin.

 

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Welcom to ct. Your coin is a Denver minted coin. You can see that little D on the reverse.
Nothing special. Just a nice Kennedy half.

 

Well, I was hopeful. Maybe next time. Thanks

 

Welcome to CT very nice coin have a few myself, it's worth more in melt from my understanding about 7.80.
Dave

 

Yea we are all hopeful to find that rarity in a junk box someday!!!

 

Why does it look so different from the others I have? The other 2 are real shiny and this one is kind of like a satin finish.

 

Could be anything. The others could be cleaned. Its hard to say.

 

The melt value according to todays spot price is $6.20.

 

Yes, to echo Steve.e, there are many reasons why one 1964 might look different than another 64. Without side-by-side pics, it'd be hard to specify.

Your 64-d Kennedy is of course a first year of issue and is also a one-year type coin. The mint started producing Kennedy's in 1964, replacing the Franklin half before it. In 1964, the half dollar was 90% silver and thus, like Steve said, is worth a few bucks in just silver value alone.

From 1965 to 1970, the mint reduced the silver content from 90% to 40% and therefore the silver value drops proportionally.

From 71 onwards till today, there is no silver in circulating Kennedy's and they are only worth 50 cents. The mint stopped producing them for circulation in 2001 and they are rarely seen by most people. But they are not rare and are only worth face value.

 

Everyone is. Hope springs infernal.

 

.....and, NONE of the 'special' Satin Surface coins were
released thru normal channels. They all are sourced from
an Ex-Director of the Mint....who sold them to a NY dealer,
Lester Merkin - who showed them to me when he first got 'em.

NONE will ever been found in circulation, rolls, sets, etc.

 

Maybe it just me, but I don't see any mint-mark on the obverse of that coin .

 

C'mon Fred, you're not allowing for the magical thinking of the Internet generation. If they can imagine it, it's so.

 

Oh no you di'int. Oh yes you did. Reverse mintmark in 1964. Doh!

 

Learned something new today ...
Thank you .......

 

I'm old enough that I still consider the reverse to be the "normal" place to look for mintmarks.

 

I can only think how cool it must of been, to go through all that silver change .

 

Less than one might think. Unbelievably enough, we went through a brief period when the "new coins" were being hoarded and put back - kind of Gresham's Law turned upside down. I still hold a few 1965 original rolls from that time period.

 

It was a sign of a area .
Coin grading service to be offer to the public .

Everything changes ..

 

Not everyone was convinced the clad coins were going to be permanent. Some thought silver coins would return once the volatility of silver got under control. The other currency events of 1971 convinced "everyone".