Picked up a72-d, 95-d,86-d,and an 81-d Kennedy halfs roll searching theo ther day. They are extremely bright silver colored, no copper edges. They look like proofs but they obviously can't be proofs. Anyone heard of this before? I don't have a camera right now. Appreciate it.
It's rather uncommon to find that many at one time, unless you have been accumulating them as you searched. The answer is yes, I have seen what appears to be clad-less edges. When the blank was pressed out of the strip metal, the outer layer of the clad sort of closed over the copper core and is further sealed up as it goes through the up-setting machine. Once inside the collar and struck by the dies, the reeded edge will be the same as the coins surfaces. The only thing that puzzles me is you say the whole coin looks different than the other Kennedy halves, this I cannot explain. Someone else might chime in, hard to with out pictures. Happy Collecting.
yeah,there are a whole bunch floating around,their neat pieces when you come across em.I am pretty sure they were done and put into sets.
Thanks for the input. Yeah they jumped out when scanning the rolls edges. What is more amazing to me though is how freshly minted, so to speak, that they look. Looks like someone just dipped them in silver. There is still a great amount of detail so I'm stumped as to what they actually are..somebody playing around with electrolysis I would guess. They look very impressive. Quite crazy looking. I guess they're clad as they look too bright to be actual silver, but, never seen anything like these after looking at gazillions of halfs. Thanks again.
I would say they need to incorporate that at the mint,as they hold up 100x better than a reg penny.I mean,they still look new.Its like the material used seals the copper and hardens the overall cent itself.I rarely ever find those messed up.
They're not proofs as Denver didn't make proof Kennedys those years, San Fran did. They could be silver NIFC Kennedys made for mint sets which would explain the sliver edge instead of the copper edge.
In many instances coins are used as a demonstrating object for metal polishes. A demonstrator uses thier polish to show how they can make a piece of metal look like a mirror.
They don't look polished as they're very uniform, although I guess it depends on how you polish them. Never heard of the mercury dipping either. Learn something everyday! Thanks again.
