I received this coin at a casino playing blackjack after I got a blackjack with $25.00 wagered (payout is 3/2 - so - $37.50). As I have been looking at many coins lately getting into collecting/numismatics, I looked at the mint mark ("D") and it appears to be filled in. Is this just gunk that was built up, some kind of mint error (grease? I read something about that on these forums), or is it a D over S (D/S) error? I looked on the forums and google/ebay but couldn't find anything on this specifically. If you have a good resource I should be using to help me with these (so I don't have to bother this community with newbie questions) please include it in your response. Any information on this would be AWESOME. I used my cell phone camera with a magnifying glass to achieve the detail, sorry if it is messy THANKS, Spencer (skbrooks1369)
Nobody? Did I post this in the wrong thread? Should it have gone in US Coins? Sorry if I did. Spencer
I d. It has 2 volumeson't believe it is a D over S. The reference book I use is the Cherrypicker's guide It has 2 volumes, I covers Cents-Nickles and Vol !! covers dimes-modern gold pieces. The S mint halves were minted as the proofs. NIFC Not Intended For Circulation. Hope you did well on the table. gary
Thanks for the response, Gary. After reading the population report for MS 1976 Kennedy Halves, this all makes sense. No S mint halves were MS, only proofs or 40% silver. What do you believe the population to be for the D/S mint mark? Any value? Yes, I did pretty well at the table, got away about $300.00 ahead after being down over $500.00 at one point! Cheers, Spencer
Does anyone have a population report for the D/S mint for this coin? What about approximate value? I'm not sure how to move this thread into the "What's it worth" area. Thanks, Spencer
Not sure why you keep insisting it's a D/S, when the post above explained why that is incredibly unlikely. My guess is that what you have there is a plain ole 1976 D. A MAJORITY of them had sloppy mint marks, and indeed, I'd wager I could open a roll of them and find 3-5 as filled in as your own. Indeed, the rarity is a 76-D with a well defined mint mark. It's worth, roughly, 50 cents.
There were 287,565,248 1976D's Minted. Here is a picture of my 1976-D Half that is normal. Yours appears to be normal as well. You could always keep it for sentimental value or something or spend it for what its worth. Cheers~ GM
I cashed in rolls and rolls of those finally. My wife saved all of hem for "sentimental" value. I searched through her stash, pulled the good ones of course and dumped the last $300 worth. Actually traded for boxes of dimes and cents. I don't think there is a recorded D/S. And from the pic, it didn't look like one to me, but as everyone knows, I can't see and am no expert. I do get lucky once in a while searching though, and I would not have pulled this one ? Congrats on the win. Here in Vegas it has been very difficult to come away ahead from the tables. Continuous shuffle machines and stricter rules have removed a lot of player advantages. IMHO gary
Found this on PCGS : http://www.pcgs.com/CERT/11372949.html IF the OP's coin is one, then it'd be worth about $15 in MS64, according to that listing. While we certainly can't grade the coin from that photo, it's clear there's significant wear in the hair below the part...so, at BEST we're in the 40's.
Thanks for all the replies. I appreciate and respect everyone's opinion/expertise. I'll keep it for a while, it's only .50 cents, right? Best Regards, Spencer
That link is to a coin that was double struck in collar not a D/S mintmark. The coin in the op simply appears to be a coin struck from a die that had a die chip in the center of the D resulting in the D just being a blob. These are fairly common and not worth a premium.
I wish I could have coin in hand and ck it out!.but u may have a D/D but an D/S would be like winning the lottery.
*smirk* I guess if I'd bothered to actually READ the description, I'd have KNOWN that...duhh. I just looked for D/S and linked away. That'll teach me to be so hasty. *heh* Agreed. Just for grins, last night I opened up my roll of circulated 76-D's (I don't KNOW why I have them...I just do, ok? *lol*) and found well over half of them to have blobby/filled/sloppy mint marks, and could post 6-7 that look nearly identical to the OP's.
Frankly, I've never seen a Kennedy half (that wasn't an S) that didn't have a sloppy mintmark. In fact, I've had to get out a loupe several times just to figure out which mint it was from. I've seen so many P's that look like D's its not even funny.
Send the coin off to James Wiles of CONECA for attribution and analysis. http://conecaonline.org/content/coneca_attributers.html $5.00 plus return shipping. James will determine what is occuring with the mintmark. BTW, email him first and include your photo in the email. I forgot to add: Population of D over S OMM for 1976 = 0
Lyds, Thanks for that very helpful post! I will look at it a few more times compared to other mintmarks which are d/s and against many other 76 D's. I doubt I will send it, but the information is awesome for future reference. Spencer
