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Message:: [QUOTE="cinman14, post: 293994, member: 10896"]Yes I can see where I could misunderstand "never before released 2001-P" with "released" 2001-P .. " Now the collector can complete their sets" I can see where someone without the ability to purchase never before released coinage from the mint would be confused about the words "Never before released"  The guy had a question about the half and I just repeated what I had read when I purchased these in April. And I can only go off of what I read on the mint site and redbook. It doesn't really matter to me if it was struck for ciculation or not. The point is common folk like myself didn't have access to these like apparently some people did. So to me it was uncirculated until the day the mint started selling them to common folk like myself....        quote=GDJMSP;293985]Your misreading what it says I believe. What it says is this -  " The United States Mint is opening the vault and offering never before released 2001-dated (P) Kennedy half dollars! To complete this offer, the United States Mint is including 2001-dated (D) Kennedy half dollars in the two-roll set as the 2001 (D) were only released in small quantities in limited areas of the country. " Now I can assure that you the 2001-P half was released before this because I bought them for my son who is a half collector. He still has them. The real misunderstanding is this - the phrases struck for circulation and released for circulation are two different things. Yes the mint struck the coins for circulation in 2001. However the Federal reserve banks in the east never asked for any coins from the mint because they had enough already so non were released into circulation. But if the Fed asks, they may be released tomorrow, next week, next year or whenever. Understand ?[/quote][/QUOTE]

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