1970 D Kennedy grade?

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  1. NumisRookie

    NumisRookie Active Member

    Straight out of Mint set.

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  3. Paul M.

    Paul M. Well-Known Member

    Looks like a 63 to me. Probably pretty typical of what you'd pull out of a mint set these days.
     
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  4. Collecting Nut

    Collecting Nut Borderline Hoarder

    MS-63 and too common to waste the money on grading.
     
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  5. Dancing Fire

    Dancing Fire Junior Member

    grading cost more than the coin.
     
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  6. NumisRookie

    NumisRookie Active Member

    Ok we'll I'm gonna hang on to it. Best way to preserve these is in a airtight right? Just any of them or do y'all suggest a specific one? I throw everything I want to keep in a 2X2 but I want to get some airtights for some of my best liked.
     
  7. Kirkuleez

    Kirkuleez 80 proof

    63 seems a bit tough to me, I see it more as a 65.
     
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  8. cladking

    cladking Coin Collector

    It's a pretty nice coin really. MS-64 easy. It needs an alcohol soak.

    It's a little PL so I'd put it at about the 94th %ile. It might look more PL under the haze.
     
  9. Omegaraptor

    Omegaraptor Gobrecht/Longacre Enthusiast

    Obverse is a 65 or 66, reverse is a 62. With that, I would put it at 63+ or 64.
     
  10. NumisRookie

    NumisRookie Active Member

    I am planning on giving it a soak in olive oil for a while. I tried it out on the dime, nickel and quarter and they look a million times better. There's an ugly haze on it for sure that they all share.
     
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  11. charlietig

    charlietig Well-Known Member


    Never heard of Olive Oil.... that's a new one for me.
     
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  14. Paul M.

    Paul M. Well-Known Member

    I'd go with acetone over olive oil, but that's just me.
     
  15. charlietig

    charlietig Well-Known Member

    Maybe with a pinch of Lemon Pepper, no?
     
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  16. NumisRookie

    NumisRookie Active Member

    lol of course!
     
  17. physics-fan3.14

    physics-fan3.14 You got any more of them.... prooflikes?

    I'd call it a high end 64, and it may get a 65 on a good day. It isn't worth sending in (and it doesn't appear to be PL).
     
  18. cladking

    cladking Coin Collector

    Even if the dies were basined they are too eroded to really call the coin PL. But, I believe, that under the haze there may be very "flat" die wear.

    It looks like around the 3000th strike but this is very difficult to gauge since dies wear at different rates. Even a fast wearing die will wear more slowly if they don't develop full pressure on the strike.
     
  19. NumisRookie

    NumisRookie Active Member

    After the olive oil soaking.

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  20. bugo

    bugo Well-Known Member

    Your best bet may be to buy a coin that has already been slabbed. I got a PCGS 1970-D half graded at MS63 for less than $35 and the MS65 1970s are running about $55.
     
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