Kennedy half slightly off center

You are a wise man , otherwise I'de have a great job but I know you wouldn't take a free ticket to the show if I came to your town!! Need more emoticons - almost reminds me of reading Insiders messages although I don't think he ever used that many!! This can go nowhere fast - I'm done!!

 

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From a normal collector, 50 cents, maybe a few cents more.
From a bidiot on Fleabay, maybe a dollar.

 

Nice coin, Hold on to it for a while.

 

It hasn't exactly fallen off the side, but I'd call this a little more than "slightly" off center.

I think it's a far more interesting coin than you've heard so far. Lettering has actually fallen off the edge of the reverse - the popularly-accepted dividing line at which value begins going up - and since the obverse isn't that far off (although the TY are very near the edge, and if I have it right they're normally closer to the rim than the reverse lettering) one has to think the dies were misaligned as well. There are a few different failure modes which can create this look. Is there any reeding at all around the edge of the coin? And how does it compare stacked on a "good" Kennedy?

Not a "Million Dollar Coin," but I bet anyone with a scholarly interest in misaligned dies and off-center strikes would want to see it. I think @cladking is a good member to invoke as a start point for more information - he should know someone with such scholarly interest if it's not in his wheelhouse - as Kennedys aren't exactly my specialty and I don't know how rare such strike errors are with them. Let's see what we can stir up for you.

 

I think its a combination of die misalignment with a slight off center strike.

I think he could get $5.00 for it which is a whole lot better than .50 cents.

If it were mine, I'd 2x2 it up and put it away.

 

This could be a valuable coin to the right error collector but such things often sell for only a few dollars.

Sorry I can't help more but errors are mostly outside my knowledge.

 

Sorry for "invoking" you, but you are the first person I think of when any viable discussion happens about coins of this era. You're a victim of your own (deserved) reputation.