I've searched 7 boxes of halves now and enjoy it. I had early success finding some silver, but none of late, but will still continue. But I have noticed some things that I'd like to ask the group: I find a lot of Kennedys marked with ink, but do not find this on other denomination of coins. Many have the eyes colored in with blue. Still more have one thick red line through it, and a few have a black ink number on either side of the face of Kennedy. Why is this? Was this some superstition or something. There are way to many of these for it to be random (or so it seems to me). I put aside my 1974 Ds to look for the DD. When examining them for I find machine doubling on the letters on the reverse on about 1/4 of the coins. Is this high percentage normal? Would I find this if I used my loupe on other years as well? Was this a problem for this coin or maybe just this year? I found a very nice die crack from the point of the neck to the edge of the coin on a 1995. I sold it for 3 bucks at my coin club. Now, since finding that, I found 5 more (same year) with my latest box with the same die crack, though none of these extend to the edge. When does something like this become a variety? Or, is this just a weak spot of the die and it just gets cracks there more often. Bob
Post some photos. * maybe we can help you rule out MMD & find the variety in all theses Kennedy's :kewl:
On the 1995 it might a cool set to have say 5 coins showing the progress of the die crack you refered too. As for the ink etc & MD .......not a clue
The crack is common. My belief is that the ones with the marker line are either coins that have been searched or people to afraid to scratch an line through the obv, so they marker it.
The ink mark on the side i believe are marked by others searching rolls of halves most are looking for silver and just unwrap and look at edges 99% of the time the silver jumps out at you and dont have to look at the dates..These are not coin collectors these are silver scavengers ,..If they see a large number of coins marked down the side they move to another source for their boxes for a while.. jmho
