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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cphine, post: 729708, member: 20940&quot;]Elaine,</p><p>You appear to be the expert on this, so I&#039;m hoping you can clear something up for me.&nbsp; I see so many different explanations that my head is going to explode if I don&#039;t just ask the question and get a straight answer!</p><p>Well, not really a question per se, but is my information here correct?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Beginning in 2002, the mint stopped producing Kennedy halves for general circulation.&nbsp; They were only available in special mint rolls and bags, as well as the uncirculated sets.&nbsp; Proofs were available only in the proof sets.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Starting in 2005, while still not made for circulation, the ones placed in the uncirculated mint sets were of the new satin finish coins.&nbsp; The ones in the rolls and bags were the regular business strike.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Also since 2005, the mintage total produced is the combined total of both satin and business strike, meaning that each type of coin is then generally &quot;more rare&quot;.</p><p>So, in 2008, each mint produced 1.7 million halves, part of which were satin finished and part of which were business strike.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Is that generally correct information?&nbsp; Which is &quot;rarer&quot;, the satin or the business strike?&nbsp; I figured it would be the satin, but the high graded business strikes seem to sell for a bunch more.&nbsp; Any idea why that is?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thanks in advance, there is so much to learn!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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