Kennedy Halves (Sub)set Completed

I have always liked Kennedy Half Dollars. When I first started collecting as a kid, they were my first 'step up' from wheat cents. So I did want to complete a set, but not the entire set. Rather, I decided to put together a set of the 1964-1970 Kennedy Halves, because of their silver content (of course).

When I put together slabbed sets, I like them to be in the same slab so the end result looks like a set that I think belongs together. I last completed a set of PCGS slabbed Peace Dollars, so this time I thought I'd go with ICG. I think I made two mistakes here. First, I believe ICG overgrades their coins; I didn't know that before I started. Second, there are not as many ICG slabbed coins out there as PCGS, so what I thought would be a simple set to complete became a challenge. The end result is some of the coins are not slabbed the same as the others. But I wanted to be done and move on to something else...

My photography skills are improving, I think, and I really believe these would have been much better if I had done them one coin at a time, but I got lazy and these images are the results. I promise I will get better.

I spent just over $400 completing this set. I overpaid for a few of them, I know, but just a few, I think.

 

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That does make a darn good looking set. I always thought the Kennedy half was a very inspired design.... I am like you. I want my sets to be slabbed by the same TPG. I finally caved on that, but it makes the OCD side of my brain go nuts.

 

Great set @John Johnson

 

Thank you.