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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 332577, member: 4626&quot;]My 2008 Kennedy halves showed up today.&nbsp; Opened up the Philadelphia roll, and almost all of them had nasty scratches and dents... was able to find about 5 where the field had no deep scratches and the details didn&#039;t have any.&nbsp; The Denver roll was even worse... I could only find one with no badly distracting scratches (and even it had a tiny one, though not deep).</p><p><br /></p><p>To be fair the reverse were all very good, little to no scratches.&nbsp; It&#039;s the obverse that seems to be getting the problems.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I wasn&#039;t expecting 2 rolls of nothing but MS-70&#039;s lol... I&#039;m realistic, I know this are just business strikes with no special handling.&nbsp; But I think I only found 6 in the enitre bunch (of 40, 20 each of Denver and Philadelphia) that could make 65 even.&nbsp; I don&#039;t get it... you&#039;d think the Mint would take better care of these, considering that the only reason they&#039;re even still minted is for the sake of collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>On another note, was talking to the tour guide at the Denver Mint yesterday and he said the estimate for Denver half dollars this year is about 1.8 million.&nbsp; Would be the new key if so (less than the about 2 million 1970-D)... though this is just a guess and depends on the demand beforethe year&#039;s up (legislation only says they have to make as many as demanded before the year&#039;s up).</p><p><br /></p><p>Based on what I saw high grade 2008-D halves will probably be pretty rare lol... possibly valuable in the future if the demand&#039;s there, especially if they mint less than 2 million.</p><p><br /></p><p>Demand on Kennedy halves keeps going down and I think the key of this series will probably be whatever the last year they end up being minted... though I imagine they&#039;ll keep minting them as long as collectors are willing to buy some and as long as the depicted president&#039;s brother stays in Congress.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve said before and will say again that I&#039;d love to see the Mint and/or Congress take some action to get people excited about these to get them circulating again.&nbsp; Possibly in 2017 (100th anniversary of JFK&#039;s birth) they can do special reverses like they&#039;re doing for Kennedy next year.&nbsp; I&#039;ll be doing my part... I&#039;m putting 38 of these into circulation lol...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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