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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 4363692, member: 101855&quot;]My experience with the 1964 JFK Half Dollars that came to the banks was that a lot of them were hacked up. The first one I received was marked up enough to be no better than MS-63, maybe MS-62. Finding one with smooth, almost mark-free surfaces was hard.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Denver Mint was noted for lower quality coins in the early 1960s. If you look at the Gray Sheet, you will see some huge jumps in price for all Franklin Half Dollars from the the MS-64 to 65 grades, including the Philadelphia coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Years ago I opened a couple of rolls of 1962-D Franklin Half dollars. Among the 40 coins, there were only a couple pieces that I would have called MS-63 or 64. All the rest were lower. Part of the problem was that they were careless made. The coins were all Mint State, but the strikes were such that the coins never were Gem Mint States, from the time they left the dies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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