1970 D Kennedy Half grade?

I stand corrected by the group. I did instead buy a MINT set with the 70-D Kennedy, the regular US Mint release (ungraded) as others mentioned above since there were no proofs released at all. Where I got mixed up is that I have bought 14 of the later special silver Kennedy (ungraded) proofs, dating from dates between 1992 to 2008 (most of the years).

 

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I look for stuff like that but get discouraged because it's so hard to find a picture with any visible detail.

 

As a retired spectroscopist, I recognize those two marks around the 9. They are burn marks from hitting the metal with a spark to determine the metals in the sample, presumably to determine its silver content. Too bad they didn't use an X-ray spectrometer which would not have harmed the surface.

 

Your link doesn't work but that one is a decent buy imo.

 

They would do that still in the cello?

 

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=231793196009&alt=web

 

Would NumisRookie explain what cello he means?

 

His coin is sealed in the mint packaging or 'cello'phane packaging the U.S. mint sealed the coins in way back when.